Windows 10 Bios setup for overclocking

Cris Ellis · 15 Feb 2016 at 16:36

Hi im new to all this overclocking. i have just bought on addvisment from a friend the 8pack Intel Core i5 6400 @ 4.4ghz overclocked quad core gaming bundle. This is my first attempt at a gaming pc. received and installed on windows 7 after following online instruction and worked fine. only draw back was other devices i have only worked on windows 10. so i bit the dust and download 10. Now to find that overclock will no longer run and is unstable giving me a message "CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT". so i reverted back to standard Bios settings and seems to run smother. But alas no overclock. is there a Bios setup for the overclock of 4.4ghz out there for windows 10. p.s needs to be fool and idiot proof as i say im a noob to all this.
Motherboard is Asus Z170E.

Jumper118 · 20 Feb 2016 at 22:01

Cris Ellis said:
Hi im new to all this overclocking. i have just bought on addvisment from a friend the 8pack Intel Core i5 6400 @ 4.4ghz overclocked quad core gaming bundle. This is my first attempt at a gaming pc. received and installed on windows 7 after following online instruction and worked fine. only draw back was other devices i have only worked on windows 10. so i bit the dust and download 10. Now to find that overclock will no longer run and is unstable giving me a message "CLOCK_WATCHDOG_TIMEOUT". so i reverted back to standard Bios settings and seems to run smother. But alas no overclock. is there a Bios setup for the overclock of 4.4ghz out there for windows 10. p.s needs to be fool and idiot proof as i say im a noob to all this.
Motherboard is Asus Z170E.

the settings should work the same on any os. you could always try 4.3 or 4.2ghz though. also try phoning ocuk customer support.

Lordgrayone · 20 Feb 2016 at 22:21

Or a slight bump in voltage would also work as it seems like a stability issue....depending on the current voltage and max allowed for that cpu.

ViRuS2k · 5 Mar 2016 at 10:23

Easy fix for the clock watchdog timeout issue,

change power profile in windows 10 to maximum usage instead of balanced and change bios power saving features to disabled apart from CPU EIST enabled = voltage will drop when idle only.
also up vcore 1 notch and vin 1 notch
and make sure your running the latest windows 10 build version 1511

=Clock watchdog error in windows 10 is the equivalent to a 124 bsod in windows 7 or a clock interrupt error in windows vista.