welcome to the no messing around LGA 20113 overclocking guide we'll be
covering the benefits of overclocking the risks of overclocking and running
you guys through how exactly to do it with your shiny new Haswell e six core
or8 core
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always starts with this but it's super important so we shouldn't skip it what
is overclocking what can we overclock
and why do we do it the short answers are for the first one basically it's
turning the speed up so that your PC components run faster than the
manufacturer intended and you can find more information about it here for
number two we'll turn up pretty much anything with a dial on it that makes it
Go FAS the CPU the RAM the graphics card are prime candidates and number three we
do it because we are driven to we have no self-control we know about the
drawbacks like higher heat output higher power consumption and even the potential
for Hardware degradation but we just have to have the
speed now no overclocking guide is complete without the latest and sexiest
Hardware as interesting as me pulling out a Northwood 2.4 C and cranking that
baby up might be to some people most of you are probably watching this today
because you want to actually do some performance tuning on Hardware that
you're actually using so as always it starts with the focus of today's video
the CPU normally for these guides we use an extreme Edition because the procedure
is actually the same for an extreme Edition or for a kseries processor
anyway but today is a little different today we're going to tune the core
i75820k because I think it's the best
bang for the processor on the market for enthusiasts and prosumers with workloads
that can benefit from its six processing cores but don't have the budget for its
eight core monster of a big brother the core i7
5960x to go along with its six cores at 3.3 to 3.6 GHz the 5820k has 15 Megs of
cache support for up to 64 gigs of ddr4
memory running in Quad Channel mode and 28 PCI Express 3.0 lanes for multiple
graphics cards or other expansion cards
this is less than the 5930k and the 5960x which each have 40 Lanes but as we
demonstrated here this will only matter in certain fairly unusual situations
let's move on to our next extreme Hardware selection if you've been
watching this channel for any amount of time you'll probably already know what Corsair dominators are here's a clip of
an old kit we painted to take advantage of their built-in custom lighting
effects in nutshell there were Corsair
biggest baddest sexiest DDR3 memory modules and now they're back for more
with ddr4 flavors available in capacities from 16 to 64 gigs and speeds
up to a blistering 3,300 MHz although the 32 gig kit here we've got today runs
at a mirror 2660 MHz cl15 out of the box
with its XMP 2.0 profile which of course
will only work with proper support from the motherboard which leads us to the
finest motherboard I've ever had the pleasure of using the Republic of Gamers
Rampage 5 extreme from ASUS now ASUS has
done no compromises Rampage grade boards
before but while they always had the performance features for extreme
overclockers they'd always be lacking the latest high-end onboard sound
designs from the formula grade Rog boards or the premium onboard Wi-Fi from
Deluxe grade boards not this time if you
can afford one you can buy a rampage 5 extreme knowing that you've got it all a
susus OC socket with extra pin for improved power delivery and RAM
overclocking their fourth generation digital power delivery their OC Zone
with some features that are actually amazingly useful even for beginners like
the safe boot Button that lets you boot to default settings without losing the
changes you just made when your overclock fails and some stuff that's
more for the hardcores like the onboard voltage probe contact points you get
top-of-the-line storage with eight SATA 3 ports two SATA Express ports and an
m.2 slot the latest Supreme effects 2014
onboard audio and finally finally three spatial stream AC Wireless with which I
achieved sustained transfer speeds of over 40 megabytes per second during
testing what oh and I guess you also get support for three-way SLI and Crossfire
with this CPU and four-way support with the 40 PCI Express Lane ones no big
whoop though for cooling I went with a Corsair h100i dual 120 mm fan all-in-one
water cooling system which is basically where I would suggest starting for six
core core overclocking with dual 140 mm
fan designs like the Corsair h110 or Cooler Master nepton 280l being solid
step UPS power was taken care of by a corser
hx1000i yes it's Overkill but I guess this is more of a because we can
Hardware Choice 0 plus Platinum efficiency dead silent operation at
light and medium loads a fully modular design and Corsair link integration for
all the real-time monitoring goodness you could want from a power supply and
that pretty much does it for the components that affect overclocking but
it should be noted that for before and after benchmarks a GTX 780 Ti graphics
card running at stock speeds was used
all right lonus so I got all my gear in front of me now what well start by
mashing delete while booting to enter the ufi BIOS and press F7 to get into
advanced mode right away none of that easy mode stuff for us no sir head over
to boot and under setup mode select Advanced so you won't have have to
switch manually every time you start up the system then it's time to head over
to the extreme tweaker heading where we'll be spending most of our time you
can save yourself a lot of effort by starting from a probably safe overclock
rather than beginning the tuning process from stock speed and testing at every
stage for hasbell processors I'd recommend a multiplier of 45 a CPU
voltage of around 1.3 volts and this is very important everything else in the
system at default settings then press F10 to apply your settings and restart
into Windows use CPU Z to verify that
the settings were applied correctly and run the stress testing application of
your choice dialing in one component at a time will take some of the guest work
out later when you're trying to balance how hard you're pushing each component
to achieve the best overall results just
make sure that your benchmark by the way is a safe one recent versions of prime
95 for example can cause your CPU to pull so much power in an overclocked
overvolted environment that you're sure to do long-term damage if you use it
extensively I'm partial to Ida 64 but a
susa's own R reel bench is a solid Choice as well and it's free if the test
fails in the first 10 minutes or so then it's time to go back to the ufi BIOS and
try a lower multiplier or as long as
your CPU low temperatures are within your comfort zone we're going to use 80°
as a Max for this guide you can try try slowly turning up the CPU voltage to see
if that helps and then boot back into Windows and rerun your test if the test
passes then it's time to restart and go back to the ufi BIOS anyway because it's
time to turn up your memory Speed Most performance kits these days will have
XMP profiles for easy RAM tuning and our
Corsair Dominator Platinum kit here is no exception with two separate profiles
a more conservative one and a more aggressive one with higher voltages but
what you need to watch out for is the changes in other system settings when
you switch your OC tuner mode from manual to XMP for RAM speeds below 2400
MHz and including 2400 MHz you can skip this next part but for speeds above 2400
MHz like our RAM it's very likely that your CPU strap will change to 125 MHz
this is okay but it means that your CPU clock speed will now be calculated by
multiplying the core rtio itio by 125 rather than by 100 so you will want
to keep XMP off for now and rify that
4.5 GHz stability test by setting your multiplier to
36 with that verified it's time to go
back into the UEFI BIOS and turn XMP back on and this now applies to all RAM
speeds again and then rerun the stability test if it fails or the system
refuses to power on consistently with error code BD then you might be tempted
to crank RAM voltage but I'd probably keep that around 1.4 volts Max and
suggest that you may want to consider fine-tuning the system agent voltage
instead I found I got dramatically better stability with around 1.02 volts
but your mileage may vary and bear in mind that more is not necessarily better
here it's more of a tuning process if
after tuning sa it passes then great
back to the BIOS you go now to see if the CPU has a little bit more Headroom
left in her you can raise the multiplier until your stress tests are no longer
able to pass now in doing that you might
notice at this stage that the CPU ratios don't give you very granular control so
if your chip handles for example 4.7 GHz
fine but 4.8 GHz crashes after a few
minutes and you want to reach your optimal setting probably somewhere in
between those two values then this is a great time to play around with base
clock a little bit and I really do mean
a little bit my chip handled 4.75 GHz
with Rock Solid stability when I reached a base clock of
101 which is as high as I really want okay you can go higher than that but you
don't want to play around with it too much because tinkering with base clock
outside of using standard dividers is not recommended because it affects many
other buses some of which like storage
for example don't take kindly to being
over clocked once you've got your CPU dialed in it's time to play around with
memory now if you want I personally
found ASUS's Auto profiles did a great job and between that and XMP it was
running fast enough but if you want you
can try different RAM dividers and try further tuning RAM voltage and system
agent voltage again to overclock your memory frequency Honestly though you
might find your time better spent trying to push for tighter RAM timings it
usually results in very similar performance gains which you can measure
by lowering the timings preferably one at a time and observing performance and
stability and memory dependent benchmarks and is less likely to debal
your overclock that you just tuned on your CPU because some RAM dividers are
inherently more stable than others 2400 is a good one as are 2666 2933 and 3200
if your memory can handle it but 2800 has trouble with some CPUs in including
RS even with kits that support that speed something very important to note
here talking about memory dividers is that increasing the CPU strap to 125
with the memory at 2400 does not change your memory divider so even though this
RAM speed increases to 3,000 MHz this is
still a good stable divider the ratio is
as important to stability as the actual speed it's running at but at the end of
the day memory find tuning is not something I personally do a lot of you
can refer back to my DDR3 versus ddr4 Apples to Apples comparison but for a
daily driver system it just doesn't matter much and the kind of instability
it causes situations where you can run a stress test for 12 hours perfectly fine
only to have it fail at 12 hours and 5 minutes is just not worth the time it
takes to verify that the system is actually running correctly
IMO usually CPU tuning aside from being
the part where you get the real tangible performance games is also much easier to
verify through stress testing so sticking with that is not a Bad Bet
speaking of the CPU one other thing you can fine-tune at this stage is the CPU
cash Ratio or uncore again it frankly
matters very little as far as performance compared to you know if you
just increase the CPU's raw frequency but if you can bring your cach speed up
closer to your CPU speed it can help a little bit with some performance metrics
once you change this though you may find that you need to fine-tune CPU voltage
and system agent voltage again so now
it's time to have a look at some performance numbers I'm not going to be
doing a huge test Suite here or anything but I'd like to give you guys a look at
the benefits of overclocking if you're willing to put a little bit of time into
it I also included numbers for ASUS's auto overclocking TPU thing that my ws
and Deluxe boards have but take them with a gigantic grain of salt the
performance numbers look good but that system wasn't stable at all at these
settings a departure from my normally positive experience with ASUS's autot
tuning so there you have it enabling XMP
on your memory doesn't do a whole lot compared to just running JX speeds this
platform is really not memory bandwidth limited even with six or eight cores to
feed thanks to its quad Channel memory capability tuning CPU speed up makes a
huge difference except for gaming where we really aren't CPU bottlenecked in the
first place anyway and further tuning RAM makes very little difference with
conservative easily stabilized RAM settings with more emphasis on the
impactful and easier to tune CPU frequency being the way to go as usual
so I think that pretty much wraps it up if you followed along with this guide
good job enjoy your freshly overclocked CPU I hope your results were awesome and
if they weren't then don't worry there's a good chance it wasn't your fault
anyway since the Silicon Lottery dictates that odds of getting a CPU with
more or less overclock ability was probably just you know predetermined by
the overclocking Gods anyway and probably wasn't your fault so don't stop
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