so guys this is going to be a bit of a voyage of Discovery episode of my video
blog I have the p67a
gd65 which I was able to manually tune in an overclock of 4.7 GHz on my core i7
2600k unlocked processor and MSI asked
me to try out their OC gen2 button so this is their one button
overclocking I press the button I'm pressing the power switch and now we're
going to find out how close you can get to my manually tuned over clock by just
pressing that button on your MSI Motherboard so first of all we're going
to boot up uh I've already set the hard
drive to ahci mode in the BIOS so uh
hopefully that is still NOS is there OC
Genie is enabled uh it's not recommended to change anything in the BIOS menu but
changing the the mode of your SATA controller is probably still okay so I'm
going to go ahead and do that just to make sure that um oops that's the wrong
thing it's under Advanced it's under integrated peripherals yeah so we're
still in ahci mode so it didn't reset that I'm going to press F10 and restart
and let's find out what OC Genie has set
this chip to so we're going to boot into Windows and that's probably going to
take a minute or so so maybe I'll talk about military Class 2 while we wait so
military Class 2 highly conductive polymerized capacitors up to eight times
the lifespan of a regular Sol ID capacitor super farite choke is 30%
higher current capacity than a standard traditional choke and then solid
capacitors give you 10 plus years Ultra long lifetime uh yeah it's not doing
anything yet okay uh cameraman's telling me I should pay attention to the screen
but it's not doing anything so they're saying up to 10 plus years of Lifetime
Under full load so that's assuming you're gaming for 12 years straight
without sleeping which some Wild players could probably do so there you go that
could be a real real istic usage scenario for some people okay we're booted up into Windows yay okay so I've
explained this a few times in the past it always uh asks me to reactivate every
time I change Hardware so I don't really bother to activate anymore so what we're
going to do is we're going to launch CPU Z and see what we're running at because
I actually have no idea so at idle we
are running at 3.5 GHz so that's a
multiplier of 35 with OC Genie turned on
okay and then let's see what happens if we run eight threads of prime
95 really I wonder if I'm doing it
wrong this really doesn't seem very OCD okay give me a minute and I will find
out what is going on here so this is me actually using a
manual so I'm going to see if uh
that'll tell me anything about how to enable OC Genie properly
because as far as I can tell I haven't done it right oh so there's an OC Genie
software application okay so that's the only
thing in there so I'll I'll keep I'll keep checking manuals and I'll let you
guys know if I figure anything out
here okay so we're sort of trying to
figure out what's going on here it says here that you can disable the ocg
function in the BIOS setup which I haven't done so we're here in the BIOS
now and what the BIOS is telling me is
that we are overclocked right now including the RAM it's loaded an XMP
profile all on its own it's increased the CPU voltage it's increased the RAM
voltage and in theory we're running at
4.2 GHz of adjusted CPU
frequency so while you set okay we don't really need
to use MSI control center oops I right
clicked instead of left clicked here why don't we set that to enable just in case
that makes a difference so we're going to save our BIOS profile and then
reset so in theory OC Genie is working
now and we're going to boot up in just a
moment so that was me using a manual you'll probably never see this on Tech
tips again and I'm pretty sure you've never seen it before but but there it
is so what are they claiming so they're claiming ocg ocg enabled gives you up to
36% performance increase on the integrated GPU although I don't think
that actually works on p67 at least
that's my
understanding cameraman's like giving me a funny look right now
I've really run out of things to talk about it's okay though because we're in
the BIOS now or in the BIOS we're in Windows now okay so let's fire up CPU Z
and see if magically by rebooting once
there okay it works now so there you go
so 4.2 GHz is what we're running at I'm
assuming if we run eight threads so we're stressing out four cores to the
Max and now let's see what happens if we go ahead
and do something like say for example we run two torture test threads of small
fft let's see if it is leaving in turbo boost enabled or if it's going for a
straight overclock so it looks like MSI has gone very conservatively here
they're actually giving it about as much voltage as I gave it to reach 4.7 GHz
stable but it's better to go conservative and assume that some chips
won't overclock as well as others when you're doing like a a one button
overclocking method like this versus having it take it to the limits so there
you go OC Genie took us about half of the way there compared to manually
overclocking but I would still recommend a manual overclock versus a canned
overclock in this case so thank you for
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should look at the ocg button that's what we're talking about good work
cameraman