
I just need to find out where it's stable for my testing then I'll move on to testing with my usual games and see how much improvement I get.

The faster the rendering of the scene is created, the more. The scene has 2,000 objects, 300,000 polygons, uses sharp and fuzzy reflections, bright areas, shadows, procedural shaders, antialiasing, and so on. It's failing after about 10 minutes of IBT Standard, so I wonder if 1.38v or 1.39v would do? I'm disappointed in the CPU especially with you guys' reinforcement that it seems to be a major fail in the silicon lottery but hey, I was running this on stock settings until now so a gain of 600MHz shouldn't be too bad. The guide says IBT, Handbrake, and Prime95 but a video by Pauls Hardware uses wPrime, Cinebench R15, Passmark, and POV-Ray and a video by Linus suggests Aida 64 and ROG Realbench and he even recommends against using Prime95. Cinebench R15 evaluates the performance of CPU calculations by restoring a photorealistic 3D scene. I'm now on 1.37v vcore and vdroop is 1.356 according to HWiNFO but it was also 1.356 when I had my vcore on 1.36v. Hahaha!! Thanks for the kind words Mr.Scott! Sporting 4 physical cores with base/turbo clocks of 3.5/3.9 GHz the 6600K and its predecessor, the 4690K share the same basic configuration and disappointingly, offer similar performance. With LLC on High, it's passing all those tests on the "light" setting and 1.36v, but looks like it needs more juice for the heavier/longer tests, so thank you for that suggestion! The Intel Core i5-6600K is based on the new 'Skylake' 14nm manufacturing process. The multi-core test involves all CPU cores and taks a big advantage of hyperthreading.
6600K CINEBENCH SOFTWARE
With LLC on Auto, it wouldn't even run Aida at 1.36v and would BSOD with IBT even at 1.41v. Intel Core i5-6600K 1.98 (76) Intel Core i7-7700K 2.36 (90) Cinebench R11.5, 64bit (Multi-Core) Cinebench 11.5 is based on the Cinema 4D Suite, a software that is popular to generate forms and other stuff in 3D. Now I'm testing for stability at 4.5GHz instead of 4.4GHz. Since you brought up LLC, I've adjusted it. I was simply saying that I found it odd how older OC guides (i5 750) were more detailed with regards to LLC and other power settings whereas most of the guides I could find for the 6600K was "just up the multiplier, give it a little juice, test for stability, and done!" I was only explaining why I have not played with LLC at that point and why I'm not playing with other settings not mentioned in the guide and not suggested to be fiddled with by anyone on here.


Keep 'em coming! I think we got kind of mixed up somewhere in this conversation? Click to expand.Thanks for the help and that is exactly why I came here and I appreciate the suggestions.
