My shiny new rig (see sig) is now up and running. I've had a tentative first go at overclocking using the simple 'dial' option in the Asus BIOS, which gave me 4.1GHz, but lowered my 2400 memory down to 2133. I manually popped the memory back to 2400, and left everything else to auto. I've used the Intel XTU utility to stress test for an hour, temps peaked at around 65 degrees, using a Noctua NH-D15 with one fan. Benchmarked using XTU and got 1593 which compares well with similar systems online.
I'm not too fussed about pushing things much further right now, I've come from a 7 year old Q9450 system so I'm pretty happy to have a 6 core monster running at 4.1GHz!
Is there anything else anyone would advise me to do to consolidate what I've done here?
The base frequency is at 100. Is this OK?
Should I set all cores to 41x rather than just 2?
Should I increase the non-turbo speed?
Should I manually set the CPU voltage?
Anything else?
Sorry for the potentially daft questions...
I'm not too fussed about pushing things much further right now, I've come from a 7 year old Q9450 system so I'm pretty happy to have a 6 core monster running at 4.1GHz!
Is there anything else anyone would advise me to do to consolidate what I've done here?
The base frequency is at 100. Is this OK?
Should I set all cores to 41x rather than just 2?
Should I increase the non-turbo speed?
Should I manually set the CPU voltage?
Anything else?
Sorry for the potentially daft questions...
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