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New Skylake rig, tips?

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Deimos

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So, I bought a Vive and a new employee at work means I got the chance to upgrade the lounge PC and have the company pay for it. (It's good to be the boss).

I ended up with this:
6700K
Asus Maximus VIII Gene
950 Pro M.2 512GB
GeForce GTX 1080 (Founders edition)
G.Skill TridentZ Series 32GB (2x16GB) F4-3333C16D-32GTZ

It has been crammed in a Silverstone FT03 with a Phanteks PH-TC14PE (yes it fits, just) and a Seasonsic 1KW PSU

Does anyone have any tips for a mild OC? should I bother? I don't want this thing to be noisy as I use it for movies. It is currently dead silent, and is barely audible when running VR games.

I'm currently testing 4.5Ghz with 1.31V actual (LLC level 4) and 120% current. Everything seems to be running OK, I haven't done any stress testing yet.
 
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I just upgraded everything but my 980Ti. I tuned the 6700k all the way up to 4.9 Ghz stable but temps and voltage was to high for my liking. Voltage was bouncing at 1.45 up to almost 1.5 and temps were on an Artic Cooler 240 water cooler were up to 80c. I set it manually at 4.6Ghz 1.3 volts and it stays there at 1.31-1.34 stable on all games tested and stress test. Temps are very good around 58c breaking 60c occasionally. I was going to recommend my mobo the Maximus VIII Ranger to save money, but looks like you bought and built already.

Main thing is, if you are comfortable at 4.5Ghz stay there and enjoy it. I would try 46 ratio though to get a little extra out of it if you want. 4.7 Ghz requires setting voltage to 1.35 with it bouncing up to close to 1.4 for me. So 4.6 Ghz is the sweet spot for energy and temp.
 
I ran prime95 on it yesterday and voltage went up to over 1.4v very quickly. I was using an offset of .03 but I have since gone back to 'default', whatever that means. I left everything else and it's now hitting 1.35v under load. Temps are very good so I'm not concerned, I'll give 4.6 a try over the next few days, see if this thing can get there without any extra volts.

Ranger wouldn't have worked for me, needed mATX for my case.
 
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