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alright y'all today we're gonna be overclocking the core I $9.99 hundred K that's inside of ol hotline to here but wait Kyle haven't you already done that before yes you're absolutely right but this time around we're gonna be overclocking the chip using Intel's performance Maximizer utility it's an overclocking tool one-click overclocking it's completely automated from Intel it's the first of its kind from Team Blue now I'm curious to see if Intel's performance Maximizer IPM can beat my manual overclock Cinebench score it's gonna be it's gonna be a bit of a showdown and to make things even more interesting we have a pretty nice golden sample here this 9900 K I mean is is Silicon lottery material for the most part I was able to get 5 gigahertz on all eight cores at just one point two three volts definitely on the low end in terms of voltages four five gigahertz flash so I'm excited about that we'll see what IPM can do it's also worth pointing out that with the launch of this new application Intel's also revamped their what is it called the performance tuning protection program now you have the option to pay a $20.00 premium which protects your CPU in the event that it dies from overclocking you can set it into Intel they'll send you a brand new one as long as the processor is still under the standard product warranty additionally this is only good for one failure your CPU can only die once it's kind of a one-time deal and finally the program itself is right now only supporting six different Intel SKUs so you've got the 9600 K 9700 K 9900 K and all of their KF versions so six chips in total will probably be rolling out support for additional CPUs in the future but I don't know if that's confirmed yet for now let's go ahead and fire up the the IPM and we'll get overclocking alright so I'm just gonna fire it up I've already installed it on my desktop I have never launched this program before guys I'm saving my I'm saving my first time for you you should feel special alright so here it is until performance Maximizer okay okay I agree that I could potentially fry my chip apparently this program creates a 16 gigabyte partition on your drive so that it can store whatever data it needs to set your auto overclock so we do have enough storage yes I'm going to shrink the partition okay I'm not exactly sure how long this is all going to take so I might have to do some editing magic and I guess while we're waiting here it's worth pointing out that it says it's an overclocking or it's an automated overclocking utility but there's quite a few requirements that need to be set in the BIOS in order for this application to work properly for example you need turbo boost enabled speed stuff I think has to be on UEFI mode has to be on for the BIOS and there's like three or four other things so I feel like a lot of people might already have all those settings good to go by default and they won't have to fiddle with anything if not you still kind of have to jump into the BIOS and tweak those settings and I feel like an automated overclocking utility like this isn't really meant for the diehard enthusiast it's meant for people who might not be as familiar or comfortable with entering a UEFI and you know messing around with that so just something to be aware of if this is your let's say your first build and you're thinking oh it's really just a no-brainer one-click thing there might be some additional assembly required okay I think the partitions been created it looks like we're ready to go here it says ready and there's gonna be some test run on the system it's gonna need to reboot several times and it could take several hours holy crap okay so this is maybe something that'll have to come back to in the morning because it's fairly late right now these tests may fail your system may not reach the maximum overclock frequency if the BIOS settings haven't been changed to their default values which they have Auto overclocking settings are enabled in BIOS which they're not another overclocking application is altered your systems frequency all good there please let continue to run tests now oops wait that's that's a little counterintuitive Intel because there's also pop up here that says you sure you want to reboot your system to run these tests yeah yeah I do okay my computer hot line 2 is in your hands now Intel don't don't this up aha look it's doing things at this point I have no idea how long this process is gonna take it could take several hours it could take less than an hour but it's getting pretty late so I'm gonna go to bed and tomorrow morning I'll hopefully wake up to a nice stable overclock and we'll take it from there mmm expert ego good morning morning everyone I came back to this it looks like our test results are ready to view yeah I'm glad everything went well looks like everything was set right in the BIOS I'm just gonna click continue okay and hopefully it'll spit out oh wait what okay alright so 4.9 gigahertz it looks like it was increased about 200 megahertz from from 4.7 so right out of the gate my manual overclock was 100 megahertz higher at 5 meter it's flat but let's just see how this overclock performs I'm gonna a Cinebench this way we can also get a score to compare against bimanual OC I'm also gonna open up hardware info 64 so I'm gonna be looking at voltage clock speed and temperatures while this is going on you can see right here just as we're idling we're hitting around four point a little over four point seven gigahertz so not quite a four point nine although it is spiking up to four point eight as you can see there let's see what happens when we click row okay our clock speeds at four point seven still we're not hitting four point nine at all temperatures are in the 70s it's a little higher actually than my manual OC the vid is around one point two seven one point two eight but yeah we're not we're not actually hitting the suggested frequency and we're done so okay that's that's some interesting behavior there that I think is a little a little disappointing but let's see how the performance looks alright so starting with Cinebench are twenty in the multi-threaded test you can see that I not only tested my manual overclock if I bigger Hertz and Intel performance Maximizer but also the system just running bone-stock that's the the bottom graph there the bottom bar there as well as with multi-core enhancement enabled if you're not familiar with MCE it's basically like a pre overclock or like a factory overclock set by the motherboard manufacturer they don't actually dial in a specific clock speed but rather they allow the CPU to operate outside of Intel's specifications so you will potentially see variants between different motherboard manufacturers based on how they actually configure their own MCE sometimes it's not even called M C it's under a different name depending on the motherboard vendor that you're using but it's basically a factory overclock a lot of board vendors are just enabling it by default like right out of the box so I felt it was an important piece of data to include in today's tests with that said you can see our results here with the stock score getting four thousand three hundred and ninety points that's our baseline our manual overclock was able to actually pump out five thousand one hundred and twenty three points that's a 17 percent uplift over stock not too shabby Intel performance Maximizer did well here too giving four thousand nine hundred and eighteen points that's a twelve percent performance bump over stock and MCE actually beat out ipm it got fairly close to my my personal overclock actually getting five thousand and seventy points that's a 14% uplift overstock so again your mileage may vary with MCE depending on the motherboard that you're using and the Maximus love an extreme that we're using today being a very top tier high-end motherboard I would assume that it's MCE parameters are a bit more aggressive than you might find on an entry-level or budget board moving on to Premiere Pro this is a rendering test we had a 10-minute clip at 1080p 60fps h.264 this is basically showing the time that it took to render that clip with the given settings so the times measured in seconds lower is better here of course at the very bottom you can see our stock system was able to render it out in 472 seconds with my manual overclocked we actually rendered it out eight percent faster with four hundred and thirty five seconds on the clock IPM did not do very well here in fact it actually performed worse than stock taking three point four percent longer to render at the clip not exactly sure what happened here or why that is but I ran the test multiple times and this was the result MCE coming in hot getting a score of four hundred and thirty five seconds that ties my manual overclocked by bigger Hertz scores so clearly we can see that asus has dialed in a fairly aggressive tuning for their multi-core enhancement on this specific board now moving on to gaming I only tested two titles here because this isn't a super deep dive video it's more or less a first look at IP M but here we have GTA 5 at 1080p max settings across the board with two X NS a a and you can see here that both our manual overclock and multi-core enhancement were able to score a modest uplift over stock going from 98 frames per second on average to about 100 and 203 that's that's about a 4 or 5% bump in performance ipm once again was it fell short of stock performance for some reason I tested this again multiple times it was repeatable and we actually went down a couple frames that was both on average frame rates and 1% lows so that's actually why I decided to test a second game it was just gonna be one game initially but then I tested Metro last light to see if if that was repeatable and sure enough IBM fared worse it fared worse than stock with noble tech core enhancement enabled we went from a hundred and sixty-two frames to 159 frames per second we saw a really nice performance improvement with our manual overclock and with MCE enabled both of which rendered about 8% more frames on average than our bone-stock system so IPM doesn't seem to be doing us any favors in gaming in fact it's actually hurting our performance compared to a bone-stock system um it did do nicely in Cinebench r20 again that 12% bump is really nice but at the same time IPM performed worse than our stock system in Premiere Pro so it makes it really difficult for me to know how and where and when to recommend this program because the data is just so all over the place it's very inconsistent not exactly sure if that's just something that Intel needs to refine over time but as of now this doesn't look like the best way to go if you're trying to overclock your cpu at least in my experience so something this quick little video up I would say that manually overclocking your CPU is the most consistent and best performing way to overclock your cpu IPM for now is not a program that I could recommend just because the data is showing me that it's actually hurting performance in a lot of cases and until I either do more research or there's more information out on it I can't necessarily suggest that anyone use this as their primary form of overclocking MCE is sort of a wild card because it varies from motherboard to motherboard in our case it actually performed more or less on par with my manual overclock and a lot of tests which is very impressive of course I have a very high tier motherboard that has a more aggressive tuning probably MCE has also been the topic of some controversy here and there because of just the way it operates the way that motherboard manufacturers kind of sneakily throw it into their BIOS and enable it by default right out of the box so users are reporting things like you know this vrm throttling or their cooling solution not being able to handle the pre overclock because they're just not aware that it's going on they don't know what it is so I feel like there's a lack of transparency with MCE even though it can be used effectively and properly and actually give you some really nice results so do some research on it find out how it operates with your specific motherboard if you do plan to use it and and good luck maybe I'll report more or do a video on it specifically in the near future but guys that's pretty much gonna do it for me if you guys have any experience with IPM so far granted if you meet the very specific hardware criteria to actually use it feel free to share your experience down below I hope you guys fared better than I did today possibly on the video if you enjoyed it and get subscribed for more tech stuff coming at you really soon thanks for watching I will see you all in the next video