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nothing freaks out new PC builders more than the idea of overclocking their CPU the thought of burning up their brand-new hardware for the sake of overclocking is just too much for some to bear but I mean honestly what is the worst that could happen yes I know I've used that analogy before but I think it still applies the mastercase 5 and mastercase 5 pro from coolermaster combines modularity with creativity giving you the freedom to build it your way make it yours by clicking the link down in the description back in the day even the most veteran of builders would start to freak out a little bit when it came to the idea of pushing their hardware as far as they can through overclocking motherboards weren't making this very easy a lot of the times the BIOS were hard to navigate and the settings were very cryptic and you just quite honestly didn't know what they mean but with the inclusion of UEFI BIOS and being a lot easier to navigate through the different settings and even have help menus right on the side of the BIOS it's easier to determine what does what and the manufacturers of motherboards have come a long way at even making motherboards designed specifically for overclocking now today we're going to take a look at three methods of overclocking to see which is right for you and just how much you really will gain now the first method we're going to look at today is XMP profile this is actually on your memory where by turning on the XMP profile the memory is going to ramp itself up it's going to overclock itself as well as usually putting a mild overclock on the CPU as well and the reason why this tends to happen is it modifies a lot of the B clock settings when it comes to your motherboard now of course something you need to be aware of is it's going to vary by manufacturer of memory it's also going to depend on the XMP profile of the memory as well as the CPU and motherboard chipset that you're using so those perimeters are all going to have some factor here on how far the overclock is actually going to go no method number two we're going to look at is the automatic overclocking where the manufacturer has tested tons and tons of different CPUs for the current chipset or the chipset that you're currently looking at in this case today we'll be using x99 where they determine that based on the CPU you have installed what over clock range is going to be typically these are going to be very mid-range where there's more Headroom if you move over to number three which is going to be manual overclocking but it's going to be much more safe less blue screens less heat and less wear and tear on your CPU now that moves us on to method number three which is manual overclocking which can take a lot of time and energy to get set where you're 100% stable usually the goal here is going to be to get as much performance as we can of our CPU and more often than not setting it right on the edge of stable or pushing it even a couple of megahertz farther could lead to blue screens random crashes and just an overall terrible experience but just like photography if you like to shoot in full manual mode then you would be the kind of person who would probably also enjoy full manual overclocking I know I do now before you do this yourself you need to keep in mind that cooling is the most important factor when it comes to overclocking most of the time you have to add more voltage to get higher stability inside the higher frequency ranges that you're going to be playing with which means you're going to be pumping more heat into that CPU and heat is the number one killer of Southern Californians no actually it's actually the number one killer of CPUs but the same thing here in Southern California somebody please put a heatsink on this damn state all right so with that said let's go ahead and turn around and transition into the CPU and let's go ahead and see just how far we're going to get with the three different methods overclocking we're first going to do a base run at 100% stock everything just completely defaulted on the BIOS to see what our baseline runs are and then we'll see how much we actually get with those three different methods of overclocking I believe it or not I've never actually done this test where we see just how far you're really going of course remember your mileage may vary when it comes to CPUs Ram types and chipsets and cooling alright enough let's do it now remember we are completely stock right here so we are going to head go ahead and run the CPU test get our baseline number and then start doing our over clocks and see what we're going to get here look at them 16 boxes of goodness just floating around right there that's that's pretty I like I wish there were more boxes though all right so our baseline number here and you guys feel free to play along at home and compare your numbers and tell me if yours are better than mine I would love it if somebody out there it's just like Jay your computer is slow it's booked and mine is faster than yours so please tell me I would love to hear about your systems anyway we have got a 1331 three-30 here on our baseline test so the very first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to save this benchmark score reboot into my BIOS and I'm going to load XMP profile to see how much we improve from there that's kind of like the easiest quickest overclock XMP profile and see what we can get now remember your BIOS is going to be different than mine you're going to have to figure out which one you need for you or what you know settings you need to change for your motherboard this is not a guide on how to do this for yours and we're going to advance frequency here extreme memory profile XMP we're gonna go profile 1 which bumps that up to 3000 megahertz on the RAM I thought I had 20 800 mm ram apparently have 3,000 isn't it sad that I don't even know what I have system multi player goes automatic and it is going to be bumping our CPU up from 3 gigahertz up to 3 point 7 5 gigahertz and the reason why it did that was it changed our beat clock value our host clock from 100 to 125 so that's how it actually achieved the overclock for the purp for the RAM which also is affecting the CPU it affects everything together so the multiplier didn't change it just upped the B clock to 125 so there you go let's go ahead and reboot this into again windows we're going to run the test again and see how far we actually improved all right so our newest score here was a 1495 it's going to divide that by the 13 30 that is a twelve point four percent increase over the base settings on the CPU not bad not bad alright so in my motherboards case right here it got a CPU upgrade drop-down and all three CPUs for x99 represented 5820k 59 30k and 59 60 X and it has three settings for each one a 3.8 a 4.0 and a 4.3 one-touch overclocked so I'm going to do the 4.3 and I'm going to leave the memory right here at disabled and system memory multiplier at Auto you could play with this also and get you know a random overclock here of the system memory as well I'm gonna leave that disabled though quite honestly because the moment you touch that it then starts to overclock the base clock as well I just like seeing 16 of those boxes just chug away at this image right here such a nice thing to see I remember the seat the one of the reasons why I like Cinebench is it doesn't it's just CPU it doesn't take GPUs into account whatsoever you know which some of the rendering applications would we just jumped up to a 16 16 9 on top of the 1495 bust out my little calculator right here let's say 16 69 divided by 14 95 that's another 11.6 percent increase over the XMP profile overclock or if we go ahead and divide that by the original number of 13:30 that is a 25 point 4 percent increase by simply changing a drop down in the BIOS this is why overclocking is fun people it's like free performance as long as you have the cooling necessary for it and in fact that OneTouch drop down isn't really going to even change the cooling that much whatsoever the voltage doesn't change to a very big number where you could use an H 100 or something and be just fine with that all right so the next one here is going to take a little bit of time before we are able to actually get the overclocks stable here I have to do my max overclocked testing and then I'll come back and show you how far we actually got by doing things that way okay so enough time and tinkering has gone by where I have settled on a 4.5 gigahertz overclock on my 59 60 X that's actually a 1.5 gigahertz overclock above the base clock of the 59 60 X now I want to point something out I could get 4.6 all day long on my e BGA x99 class five board before some raisin on the gigabyte board I cannot get 4.6 kick-butt gigahertz stable don't know what it is I just don't have the time to tinker with it but I've also settled on 2666 on the memory now you'll know you you typically cannot get the max memory XMP profile speeds while overclocking the CPU as far as it can possibly go - it's a bit of a trade-off but I'd rather have faster CPU than faster Ram what that said let's go ahead and run the test and see just how far it's actually come before the test finishes here the last one with the OneTouch overclock was a sixteen sixty nine and by only doing two hundred additional megahertz and bumping up the memory speed a little bit our speed has increased to a seventeen forty eight that's a 4.7 percent increase over the OneTouch overclock that we did prior to that with the sixteen sixty nine but our total percentage increase over the original thirteen thirty is a thirty one point four percent improvement in Cinebench scores and you can see them represented by the orange stripes right there that's a seven thirty one point four percent increase over just putting the CPU in and letting the turbo clock of three point three gigahertz to do its thing if you are putting in Nice chipsets with any sort of case Q processor whatsoever or even AMD FX Black Edition stuff if you're not overclocking you are missing out on some serious free upgrades when it comes to the performance of your PC now one thing I want to mention is that I personally don't find the additional four point seven percent of increase in the amount of time it's spent to find that stable four point five gigahertz which quite honestly took way more effort that it really should have because it comes down to the Silicon Lottery some of you won't even achieve close to those numbers some of you will be achieving much higher numbers with a lot lot less effort but you got to ask yourself if that's worth it to you the additional four point seven percent for the sake of tinkering guys like me find the tinkering to be the fun aspect portion of this whole thing some of you might just want to set it and forget it which is exactly what you know new motherboards and stuff like this are offer so honestly it really comes down to the amount of risk you're willing to take the amount of tinkering you want to do and quite honestly you aren't taking much of a risk at all by using any of the built-in overclocking features inside of your motherboards and your CPUs you quite honestly should be tapping into this extra power it's at your fingertips so if you have the cooling to support it some sort of a high-end air cooler or an all one water cooling loop it's even going to be beneficial when it comes to these OneTouch overclocks it doesn't touch the voltage a whole lot to achieve those numbers remember these manufacturer companies are dealing with tons and tons of data with lots and lots of CPUs that they've done testing with during the actual development process I believe Asus actually gave me a statistic of a thousand CPUs are tested when they do their overclocking Suites to determine what's a safe number for it to play around with it knows where it's safe let it do it overclock your PC what's the worst that can happen well you just have to clear your CMOS and start all over or forget it if it wasn't for you the chances of actually ruining something are very very slim and the chances of getting more performance definitely outweigh the slim amount of risk that you would be taking anyway guys I hope you've enjoyed today's video let me know if your numbers are beating mine it probably won't be that hard I'm still really disappointed that I can't get 4.6 stable out of my gigabyte set up when I was doing it all day long with the EVGA it's possible to that there's been a little bit of CPU degradation over time one of the biggest effects of overclocking long term is that you'll start to require more voltage and get lesser speed out of it as some of the as some of the transistors and things start to die and some of your degradation inside your CPU happens but I'll let that scare you that's an extreme extreme case I've been running my CPU at its max stable but I possibly could as long as I've had it from day one most people don't do that anyway guys time to get out of here hope you've enjoyed today's video as always thanks for watching and I will see you in the next one