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Skylake running at 4.6GHz stock

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First system I've built in two years, currently all running well except for my CPU that seems to be running at 4.6GHz default 100 x 46 and Corsair Link seems to be reporting some very high temps whenever I try stress testing. I thought I have everything set to default in the UEFI.

Is there a program I can use to monitor CPU temps in game and is there a way to have the CPU run at default 4GHz with an Asus Z170-A motherboard?

Thanks

scol
 
Yeh it's definitely not stock.

Both on the board itself and in the BIOS TPU is set to standard (non OC mode). Read the manual front to back and can't figure it out, is CPU-Z wrong? It's reporting my voltage at idle as somewhere between 0.4V and 0.58V - surely the multiplier and thus core clock must be running lower than reported if this is true?
 
Task manager is also reporting my core clock as bouncing between 4.3GHz and 4.52GHz.

Idle temp is 28*C... Just within a minute on Prime95 it will be hitting 80/90*C and that's in a cool room with a Corsair H100i GTX cooling it.
 
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Still on first release BIOS and no multimeter handy to check sadly.
Will check in the BIOS just now, still not used to a UEFI, prefer the old plain BIOS :P.
 
Just wanting to say, managed to fix it. Had XMP enabled for my memory and for some reason that was setting the motherboard to target a high overclock for my CPU. Disabled it and set the DRAM frequency manually and all is working fine.
 
I think you probably can, I'll be getting into all that probably for next week. For now I just want a nice, stable cool system to game on. The FPS I'm getting with a GTX 970 at 1080p is insane.
Very happy with my system.
 
Yeh I use Afterburner from time to time. Really tempted to delid my chip but I think I'll wait a little while.

I haven't seen anything that says the 4790k is faster in gaming. Maybe in the odd usage scenario but from the tests Digital Foundry did the 6700k is a pretty impressive chip.
 
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