How to get i3 6100 to 4.5Ghz stable

Having trouble getting my i3 past 4.2ghz and to remain stable w/o crashing. My mobo is MSI Z170-A Pro. Ram is Gskill DRR4 3200. Temps are fine using an aftermarket cooler. Its just no matter what i adjust it just won't remain stable. I'd like to get this chip up to 4.5ghz since i'm gonna be pairing it with a gtx 980.

You can't if the chip just can't handle it. Just like with i5s and i7s - one chip can get to 4.8-4.9 while the other might not even boot at 4.3, it's a lottery - nothing to do with temps.

@davi21a:Sometimes you just hit the limit of the chip or mobo you have, nothing you can really do.

This seems like one of the biggest Oc on it with 1.360v, something interesting.

http://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/Overclocking-Locked-Intel-Skylake-CPUs-Possible-i3-6100-Benchmarked

The 1.0 GHz overclock was achieved with a 127 MHz base clock on the i3 processor, with a vcore of ~1.36v. Apparently the ASRock motherboard requires the processor's graphics portion to be disabled for overclocking with this method, and TechSpot used an NVIDIA GTX 960 for test system. The results were impressive, as you might imagine.

That's odd. The max TDP on that says 65w?? Mine shows only 51? something not right here. I'm also using an EVGA FTW 960 atm. but upgrading to a 980.

@zaku101 said:

@davi21a:Sometimes you just hit the limit of the chip or mobo you have, nothing you can really do.

This seems like one of the biggest Oc on it with 1.360v, something interesting.

http://www.pcper.com/news/Processors/Overclocking-Locked-Intel-Skylake-CPUs-Possible-i3-6100-Benchmarked

The 1.0 GHz overclock was achieved with a 127 MHz base clock on the i3 processor, with a vcore of ~1.36v. Apparently the ASRock motherboard requires the processor's graphics portion to be disabled for overclocking with this method, and TechSpot used an NVIDIA GTX 960 for test system. The results were impressive, as you might imagine.

@davi21a: As already been said - chip got it's limits - also it depends on the silicon lottery.

You can try to over volt it but it'll harm the chip over time.

Can't you just increase the voltage? I mean when it comes down to it - temperature should be the limiting factor. Even voltages deemed "unsafe" by the Intel manual's are usually pretty high up there and it's been said that if you keep the temperatures within spec, your chip won't crap out on you. You'll just bring their lifespan from 30+ years to like 15+ or something silly like that. Going an extra .25 over spec isn't going to kill the chip (unless your cooling isn't as good as it could be).

You can't just clock them as high as you want... it just can't handle it.