I honestly feel like it’s playing on 5 computers at once 
Pretty awesome, I’m still having some memory errors pop up now and then but it’s nothing severe. Quite happy with the overclock actually
care to share details?
I’m not the guy who’s going to insist on an 8+ hour P95 stress test, but a few hours on Realbench without errors is probably a good stability threshold for gamers.
Gratz on the OC but it really is more impressive depending on the specific CPU. Also your memory errors should be zero.
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maybe he’s a multi-boxer
and he really IS playing on 5 computers at once!
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Yeah sure, basically I overclocked my 8700-K with the OC profile my motherboard comes with. It’s pretty straight forward but I’m just glad it works. The memory problem seems to be coming from nowhere and is synthesized out of nothing so I’m choosing to ignore it.
I definitely feel like I have the most powerful machine when playing amongst others
Watch your vcore.
Automatic OC tends to go HAM on voltage to try to get as many systems stable as possible (since each chip is different) and you may be way more voltage than you need.
Or your chip may not actually be capable of 5ghz at all (crashes, WHEA errors, etc).
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Or the motherboard can’t handle the voltage. You sure these are memory errors? I would run memtest on each separate stick of RAM
It runs fine
Too much voltage over an extended period of time under high current load can degrade your chip and then it won’t run fine.
That’s actually not true
yes, yes it is.
here’s some testing on skylake-type chips (ours)
https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/comments/8747ld/voltage_vs_silicon_degradation_data_featuring/
That means nothing
You do you man
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I’ll add that i have seen auto OC apply up to 1.45v to an OC with insanely high LLC.
While voltage and current alone don’t degrade CPUs, voltage, current, and heat certainly do.
Unfortunately it’s not possible to separate these aspects to live quietly on their own. You get all three.
Increased voltage + increased current = more heat.
Too much voltage and too much heat can and will degrade your chip. And as you increase voltage you automatically increase current and heat.
You are going to have a very hard time cooling a 6-core skylake chip at 1.45v without a delid and an excellent cooling solution.
As a result, you’re going to be facing more oxide breakdown and electron migration, which results in degradation and/or failure.
Myself? I keep it under 1.4 and have a modest cooler…but I’ve delidded mine and have been running my 8700k at 5ghz for almost 3 years.
As far as Ryzen goes, they are seeing degradation on anything past 1.325v on their 3rd gen chips.
I’ve actually decreased it back to the normal standard because I believed it was affecting me differently. My life has calmed, but i do guarantee you that a 5Ghz machine was far out.
Voltage, current and heat are an interesting combination. But do remember that heat is completely not an issue when you have a watercooled system 
That way you can completely separate those variables and leave cooling out of the equation.
Buildzoid does a good job of explaining it all.
