Hi, CrYpT0
That's more than adequate cooling for a 4670K - plenty of capacity to include the M6F and the GPU. That's the first thing we look for when making OC suggestions.
What have you tried and how far did you get? What do you use to control the OC - BIOS? AISuite? TurboV? What stability tests do you run?
I usually start OC of a new CPU with everything set to defaults in BIOS ( and don't use AISuite ), boot and check basic stock performance. DOAs, bad socket connections, component and plug seating etc. show up then without confusion of possibly being caused by OC. You've probably moved past that.
I really like Aida64 as a monitor program - it shows virtually everything. Its stress tests are too easy - not stringent enough to show stability. Realbench is a good stability test for gaming and 24/7 use in real-world applications. If you expect to be benchmarking competitively, the higher OC and stressful applications need an even more stringent stability test when setting up the OC. OCCT is that test. I recommend Realbench for most OC uses.
Be sure to run a monitor program of some kind with stress testing - check for temperatures, voltage variations and that the clock rates are what you asked for. Use only one monitor program at a time - they tend to stumble over each other trying to read the same sensors at the same time when more than one are running. I recommend Aida64, but it's not free. Check out the free trial to see if it works for you.
With your cooling, we can be a little aggressive with an OC starting point. I'm making the wild guess that you have tried some of the pre-programmed OC profiles in BIOS or in the AISuite and I'll suggest something different.
In BIOS extreme tweaker tab, set AI overclock tuner to manual,
CPU Core Ratio to sync all cores and set the multiplier to 42 - for a 4200MHz OC target.
Set Fully Manual Mode to enabled
Set CPU core voltage to 1.28v
Leave all else at default/auto and exit BIOS.
That suggested starting point is suitable for a below-average CPU in that is a rather low clock rate and high core voltage. If it works in a stability test, the first follow-on adjustment is to reduce core voltage by .02 volts per step and repeat the test - step by step until the blue screen says the voltage is too low. Return to the last voltage that worked plus another .01 for a safety margin. That's your 4.2GHz OC profile.
What higher clocks to try for depend on the voltage needed for 4.2GHz. With that start and the following guides, I'd hope you can get an OC that fits your goals. Let us know how it goes.
http://rog.asus.com/254052013/maximus-motherboards/recommended-settings-for-overclocking-maximus-vi-...
http://rog.asus.com/242142013/labels/rog-exclusive/maximus-vi-series-uefi-guide-for-overclocking/
Jeff
That's more than adequate cooling for a 4670K - plenty of capacity to include the M6F and the GPU. That's the first thing we look for when making OC suggestions.
What have you tried and how far did you get? What do you use to control the OC - BIOS? AISuite? TurboV? What stability tests do you run?
I usually start OC of a new CPU with everything set to defaults in BIOS ( and don't use AISuite ), boot and check basic stock performance. DOAs, bad socket connections, component and plug seating etc. show up then without confusion of possibly being caused by OC. You've probably moved past that.
I really like Aida64 as a monitor program - it shows virtually everything. Its stress tests are too easy - not stringent enough to show stability. Realbench is a good stability test for gaming and 24/7 use in real-world applications. If you expect to be benchmarking competitively, the higher OC and stressful applications need an even more stringent stability test when setting up the OC. OCCT is that test. I recommend Realbench for most OC uses.
Be sure to run a monitor program of some kind with stress testing - check for temperatures, voltage variations and that the clock rates are what you asked for. Use only one monitor program at a time - they tend to stumble over each other trying to read the same sensors at the same time when more than one are running. I recommend Aida64, but it's not free. Check out the free trial to see if it works for you.
With your cooling, we can be a little aggressive with an OC starting point. I'm making the wild guess that you have tried some of the pre-programmed OC profiles in BIOS or in the AISuite and I'll suggest something different.
In BIOS extreme tweaker tab, set AI overclock tuner to manual,
CPU Core Ratio to sync all cores and set the multiplier to 42 - for a 4200MHz OC target.
Set Fully Manual Mode to enabled
Set CPU core voltage to 1.28v
Leave all else at default/auto and exit BIOS.
That suggested starting point is suitable for a below-average CPU in that is a rather low clock rate and high core voltage. If it works in a stability test, the first follow-on adjustment is to reduce core voltage by .02 volts per step and repeat the test - step by step until the blue screen says the voltage is too low. Return to the last voltage that worked plus another .01 for a safety margin. That's your 4.2GHz OC profile.
What higher clocks to try for depend on the voltage needed for 4.2GHz. With that start and the following guides, I'd hope you can get an OC that fits your goals. Let us know how it goes.
http://rog.asus.com/254052013/maximus-motherboards/recommended-settings-for-overclocking-maximus-vi-...
http://rog.asus.com/242142013/labels/rog-exclusive/maximus-vi-series-uefi-guide-for-overclocking/
Jeff
