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so guys this is going to be a bit of a voyage of Discovery episode of my video

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blog I have the p67a

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gd65 which I was able to manually tune in an overclock of 4.7 GHz on my core i7

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2600k unlocked processor and MSI asked

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me to try out their OC gen2 button so this is their one button

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overclocking I press the button I'm pressing the power switch and now we're

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going to find out how close you can get to my manually tuned over clock by just

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pressing that button on your MSI Motherboard so first of all we're going

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to boot up uh I've already set the hard

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drive to ahci mode in the BIOS so uh

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hopefully that is still NOS is there OC

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Genie is enabled uh it's not recommended to change anything in the BIOS menu but

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changing the the mode of your SATA controller is probably still okay so I'm

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going to go ahead and do that just to make sure that um oops that's the wrong

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thing it's under Advanced it's under integrated peripherals yeah so we're

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still in ahci mode so it didn't reset that I'm going to press F10 and restart

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and let's find out what OC Genie has set

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this chip to so we're going to boot into Windows and that's probably going to

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take a minute or so so maybe I'll talk about military Class 2 while we wait so

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military Class 2 highly conductive polymerized capacitors up to eight times

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the lifespan of a regular Sol ID capacitor super farite choke is 30%

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higher current capacity than a standard traditional choke and then solid

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capacitors give you 10 plus years Ultra long lifetime uh yeah it's not doing

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anything yet okay uh cameraman's telling me I should pay attention to the screen

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but it's not doing anything so they're saying up to 10 plus years of Lifetime

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Under full load so that's assuming you're gaming for 12 years straight

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without sleeping which some Wild players could probably do so there you go that

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could be a real real istic usage scenario for some people okay we're booted up into Windows yay okay so I've

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explained this a few times in the past it always uh asks me to reactivate every

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time I change Hardware so I don't really bother to activate anymore so what we're

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going to do is we're going to launch CPU Z and see what we're running at because

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I actually have no idea so at idle we

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are running at 3.5 GHz so that's a

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multiplier of 35 with OC Genie turned on

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okay and then let's see what happens if we run eight threads of prime

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95 really I wonder if I'm doing it

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wrong this really doesn't seem very OCD okay give me a minute and I will find

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out what is going on here so this is me actually using a

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manual so I'm going to see if uh

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that'll tell me anything about how to enable OC Genie properly

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because as far as I can tell I haven't done it right oh so there's an OC Genie

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software application okay so that's the only

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thing in there so I'll I'll keep I'll keep checking manuals and I'll let you

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guys know if I figure anything out

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here okay so we're sort of trying to

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figure out what's going on here it says here that you can disable the ocg

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function in the BIOS setup which I haven't done so we're here in the BIOS

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now and what the BIOS is telling me is

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that we are overclocked right now including the RAM it's loaded an XMP

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profile all on its own it's increased the CPU voltage it's increased the RAM

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voltage and in theory we're running at

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4.2 GHz of adjusted CPU

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frequency so while you set okay we don't really need

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to use MSI control center oops I right

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clicked instead of left clicked here why don't we set that to enable just in case

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that makes a difference so we're going to save our BIOS profile and then

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reset so in theory OC Genie is working

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now and we're going to boot up in just a

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moment so that was me using a manual you'll probably never see this on Tech

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tips again and I'm pretty sure you've never seen it before but but there it

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is so what are they claiming so they're claiming ocg ocg enabled gives you up to

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36% performance increase on the integrated GPU although I don't think

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that actually works on p67 at least

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that's my

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understanding cameraman's like giving me a funny look right now

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I've really run out of things to talk about it's okay though because we're in

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the BIOS now or in the BIOS we're in Windows now okay so let's fire up CPU Z

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and see if magically by rebooting once

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there okay it works now so there you go

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so 4.2 GHz is what we're running at I'm

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assuming if we run eight threads so we're stressing out four cores to the

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Max and now let's see what happens if we go ahead

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and do something like say for example we run two torture test threads of small

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fft let's see if it is leaving in turbo boost enabled or if it's going for a

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straight overclock so it looks like MSI has gone very conservatively here

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they're actually giving it about as much voltage as I gave it to reach 4.7 GHz

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stable but it's better to go conservative and assume that some chips

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won't overclock as well as others when you're doing like a a one button

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overclocking method like this versus having it take it to the limits so there

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you go OC Genie took us about half of the way there compared to manually

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overclocking but I would still recommend a manual overclock versus a canned

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overclock in this case so thank you for

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checking out my video blog don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech tips for more

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should look at the ocg button that's what we're talking about good work

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cameraman