Asus CPU Level Up

PeterT

PeterT

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Hello,
I built my PC back in September and I have only just got round to overclocking. I went poking through the bios of my motherboard and found a feature called "CPU Level Up" and it has three settings, 4.2, 4.4, and 4.6 gHz.
Does this adjust the Settings to get the CPU upto this clock speed or does it just adjust the multiplier?

CPU: i7 4770k
MoBo: Asus Maximus VI Formula

Thanks,
Peter
 
I've used it, worked quite well for me with the same board and CPU you have. The overclock seemed stable, kept it until I managed to get time to overclock manually.
 
My mobo a Asus x79 DLx has the 4 Way Optimization which will give you the highest overclock available. While it stress tests your CPU while overclocking taking into account your temps as well mine started from 4.2GHz and l finished with a OC at 4.6GHz.

But these overclocking programs tend to add more voltage all round and settings. So what l did was go into the Bios take note of all the settings regarding my OC- all voltage settings, ram timings and any other settings which effected the OC.

Have a read of your motherboard manual about overclocking, when using the 4 Way Optimization CPU Volts was 1.65v in the Bios. But after reading the mobo manual and knowing what effected the OC. I got my CPU Volts down to 1.35OV in the Bios with slightly better ram timings and other settings.

So read your mobo manual take note of your Bios settings, plenty info online about overclocking just type Asus Maximus VI Formula overclocking.
 
If you have a decent CPU then yes but I cannot even post at 4.2GHZ with this crap batch 4770k.

Not stable at manual settings with 1.28v.

Going to sell and try again.

Was good on my last build with a 2700k I used the 4.6GHSZ one for a while before going manually to 5GHZ,
 
Thanks for all the replies I think I will use the feature for a while until I have more time spare.
Another question, is star swarm a suitable test to use to check stability of an overclock? It can be found on Steam for free and it was used by Linus Tech Tips.

Peter
 
The best way to check stability of an overclock is to do the things you usually use your computer for. If it seems stable, you're good.

You could run Prime95 and watch it fall over within minutes, but if you're not stressing your CPU to that extent in your daily tasks, then is it an issue?
 
I have overclocked to 4.4gHz and when under full load for around 15mins my temps only hit 42 degrees :)

Thanks for the help,
Peter
 
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