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Help Overclocking my 5930k?

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Wednesday, February 04, 2015 1:52 PM (permalink)
Alright, so I tried overclocking my first processor last night and ALMOST had success, ( I think ) but I want to get your guys' help and opinion. I'm using an ASRock X99 Extreme6/AC. Its a beautiful motherboard. ASRock actually went and created profiles on the motherboard for over clocking each of the different x99 chips. The only thing you have to do is select which of the profiles you want: 4, 4.2, 4.4, and 4.6. So I wanted to start mild. I'm not very ambitious, but I thought 4.2 would be a moderate overclock for this processor (I'm using a Swiftech H140-x liquid cpu cooler). So I set the processor to 4.2, saved the bios, restarted the computer, and VIOLA! It booted right up. I ran Aida64 for about 1 hour with no hicups, freezing, or crashing. I then made it through an entire Unigine Heaven Benchmark with no hickups, stuttering, or crashing. And then upon exiting unigine heaven, BLUESCREEN. I let it restart, but it then froze on the desktop, and wouldn't unlock. So I manually restarted the computer, went into the bios and reset the speed to stock 3.5 So everything is at stock again, with default speeds, it booted up and worked fine.

My question to you all now is, did it blue screen because there wasn't enough voltage? I didn't change the voltage when I went to 4.2. It was just at 1.22 volts the entire time. MAX temperatures under 100% load never got above 63c. So do you think I can stabilize 4.2? If so what should I do next?
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    VVhiplash
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    Re: Help Overclocking my 5930k :) Wednesday, February 04, 2015 2:07 PM (permalink)
    Ok so I think I'm a little confused now.. I just read this article, posted today on Toms Hardware, saying that 1.22 is more than enough volts to stabilize a 4.2ghz overclock... why would my computer not be stable then? Was the bluescreen actually a stability issue, or due to something else?
     
    http://www.tomshardware.c...-motherboard,4027.html
     
    Do you think my powersupply isn't big enough? I looked at several websites for recommendations and tried a couple of different psu calculators that told me my current computer would do just fine on an 850W powersupply.. do you think thats big enough for this? I don't really know how to monitor how much power my computer is consuming/pulling as a whole. But I suppose there's a possibility I might just have a faulty PSU as well...
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    Re: Help Overclocking my 5930k :) Wednesday, February 04, 2015 3:03 PM (permalink)
    Every overclock part is different
    Some need more voltage than others
    That is one of the most basic rules everyone starting to overclock should know

    I couldn't read the article (link no good)
    So I don't know if it said 1.22v was good enough for them to get that particular CPU to hit 4.2GHz or if it say so for all 5930k
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    Re: Help Overclocking my 5930k :) Wednesday, February 04, 2015 3:22 PM (permalink)
    Sorry, just fixed the link. ( I don't know why it automatically abbreviates like that..) 

    It says that 1.22v should be enough for any 5930k, but I would think that, like you said, every one is different, I may not have hit the silicon lottery with a lot of luck I guess. The article also said though, that 1.3 volts is waaaay much? or over the top? I don't know about that. But Anyway, I thought I'd put this out there so I could learn something. Should I just try increasing the voltage? If so, by how much? 1.23? 1.24?

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    Re: Help Overclocking my 5930k :) Wednesday, February 04, 2015 3:38 PM (permalink)
    I would say going over 1.4 is too much for intel cpu
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