Increase this voltage by a further 0.3, and run the small FTTS in Prime 95 for at least 20 min. In order to emulate the most brutal condition your CPU will face, you need to test whether it can handle the AVX in Prime 95. You can also try finding the min voltage that does not result in instant failure. Once you remark the min boot voltage for your goal frequency, increase it by 0.03V, run the Intel Processor Diagonostic Tool first, then run some moderate stress test in Intel Extreme Tuning Utility, FPU in Aida64 for at least 15 min to detect if it result to Blue screen of Death. I.g, my min boot voltage (4.7Ghz) is 1.20volt, i will start finding the min boot volt (5.0Ghz) at (1.20 / 4.7) *5.0 = 1.28 volt.

Now, estimate the min voltage of your goal by the following: estimated voltage = ( min boot voltage / 4.7 Ghz) * Your Goal in Ghz, always round it up. Remark the minimum 'boot' voltage for 4.7Ghz. If it cant boot from the beginning, increase it by 0.02 and fire another attempt. If windows is sucessfully booted, decrease the voltage by 0.01 until it cant boot.

Usually i start with 1.22 V for a 9700K, lower for 9900K and even lower for 9900KS. ( Remove the limits, sync all mulitpiler to 47, manually override your core voltage), dont tune your RAM yet. The 9700K can turbo to all core 4.6Ghz at stock setting, first find the minimum voltage to boot it at all core 4.7Ghz, with 0 avx offset. I assum an average 9700K is able to achieve stability at 5.1Ghz non avx, 4.9 Ghz avx, using the normal distribution.

So what if I have an average 9700k? How high can I overclock, and what should I usually set my volts to?Īccording to.

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