Re: spent a bit of money on my PC

over clocking

i am no expert at over clocking and until recently its been said that the non -K intel processors are locked to overclocking,

my cheapish cpu is a I5 6400 @ 2.70 ghz that when boosted rises to around 3.2 ghz , this is good enough in my setup to pull 100-120 fps when in high detail mode in world of tanks, 

because i dont use the pc for anything more demanding its enough as it is but then i read the other day that if you change the bios you are able to unlock the cpu for over clocking and whats more you can get some massive boosts.

so i read this and thought hmmm……………………. well in the end i had to try it , as it stated it was a 2 min job due to the abillity to  flash the bios within the bios no usb trickery needed.

the major draw backs when doing this is not stability , it is that certain items are switched off like fan management and incorrect temp readouts of motherboard and cpu amoungst other things, being i just re housed into a new case i didnt think it

wise to actually keep the over clocked settings until i am certain i am not causing issues.,

so i downloaded the bios i needed for the Asus z170-p  my motherboard and saved it where i could get access to it easily from  within the bios,

then i had to change a few settings that i had listed from a guide i found on the internet via google (same as link for bios for motherboard to allow the overclock)

saved, and rebooted ,  ran cpu-z and boom !!!!! 4.519 ghz compared to official 2.7 ghz or in practice 3.2 ghz boosted massive boost of around 70%

i also ran benchmark software and the thing performs better than a low end I7 this is straight up and well documented on the internet if you dig around for it.

first attempt of doing it i found unstable so lowered the ram frequency slightly (think i read to do this somewhere) , and i got it spot on the second time, although my ram was set to slightly slower than it should be.

however after all of this i have reverted back to out of the box settings for now, i still dont know enough about over clocking at this stage and need to find other users that have done this and the settings they have used and also any solution they have used for temp monitoring and fan managment.

anyone here who actually has been able to follow this and knows what i am talking about please add a comment below.