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this video is brought to you by mano price offering you high quality cables at everyday low prices all with a lifetime warranty monoprice also has adapters keyboards headphones and even gaming monitors click the link in the description for more information or visit monoprice comm excellent what's up guys and welcome to my sky league overclocking video a video that I am doing because you guys requested it that's right I also realized though that if you have a skylake processor right now that's an Intel 6th generation Core processor which means you have a 6600 K or 6700 KK's until went ahead and launched the case q overclockable processors first that means well you have the overclockable processor with the K on the end it means you don't have a stock heatsink fan like this one because intel didn't ship them with these processors which means you probably have something a little bit better whether it's a nice all-in-one liquid cooling unit like this Corsair H 110 or something else similar it means you have the potential to get yourself extra free performance just by following a few basic overclocking steps that's what this video is for we're going to teach you the simple and easy way to go for a 4.6 to 4.8 gigahertz overclock on your CPU that's about what most of you guys should expect with the case q processors that lunch so far and really all that you need beyond that is just the proper hardware so let's take a look at this test bed that I have meticulously assembled for today's video so at the heart of my test bed of course is the 6700 K that I'm using you could also use a 6600 K just make sure that a K on the end because if this is the future and Intel has released other skylake CPUs the non k SKUs aren't multiplied or unlocked and that's important you're also going to need a good CPU cooler i am using a corsair h 110 which is an all-in-one liquid cooler you don't necessarily need to go this high-end you can get by with something like a cooler master hyper 212 plus for example but if you want to keep the temperatures down a little bit more and all in one liquid coolers a great way to go the motherboard i'm using is the gigabyte z170 x gaming g1 which is a actually really high-end motherboard from gigabyte bear in mind the lower-end motherboards might not overclock quite as well in this series but you do need the z170 chipset in order to overclock if you don't have a case here your CPU and the z170 chipset you will not be able to do what I'm about show you how to do so make sure that you have that that's very important I also have Corsair Vengeance LP X ddr4 memory most motherboards in this range are going to use ddr4 memory so you will need that not gonna do memory overclocking here but I'm going to plug in the XMP values to set the memory to its rated speed apart from all that you will need the rest of the parts that you would usually have in a computer which would include like something like a case power supply as well as some type of storage or SSD and/or if you get everything up and running then you're probably also going to need an operating system and I've gone ahead and already installed Windows 8.1 on this so we can move forward with the overclocking procedures you also might want a graphics card I'll be running a gtx 980ti for these tests although I've removed it so you can get a better look at that motherboard so we're starting our overclocking journey here in the operating system I'm actually not going straight to the BIOS because as much as we want to go ahead and jump in and start doing our overclocking we have to do some due diligence first that means getting your operating system installed I'm using Windows 8.1 in this case run Windows Update and get it all up-to-date and then also I'm going to download all my drivers get those installed make sure the system is pretty much good to go and then up here in the top right you can see I've downloaded some of my monitoring programs so I have cpu-z just to keep an eye on things you can see the core speed there and then I like hardware monitor as well which is also from the CPU ID folks that lets us do a few things for example it lets us keep an eye on the overclock itself so they've added the core clocks here and you can see that they're peaking at 4.2 gigahertz right now because it is still at the reference speed this will also allow you to check on the temperatures and this is something really important to keep an eye on bear in mind that the Intel CPUs can have a they have a TDP max of 105 degrees Celsius so they can get pretty hot but I generally like to keep things below 90 or 95 if possible apart from that you're going to want to do some stability testing and also give yourself something to compare against once you actually do your overclock so I have a few two benchmarks that I have pulled up there's a bunch of different types of benchmarks you can run this is just the ones that I've chosen I have w prime and I'm running the 1024 that down I also have Cinebench r15 which is very popular these are also all three by the way set a bench basically does some ray tracing and it creates this image here all you CPU and then also we have pov-ray which is also a ray tracing utility so it uses the cpu to do ray tracing calculations there is a benchmark built into this one that you can access from the render drop-down and then also we have pass mark which is a little bit of a lighter weight but all around test so it does cpu tests as well as the rest of the system of course in this particular case I'm mostly going to be focusing on cpu tests so after you've gotten everything installed everything up to date and you've chosen your tests that you want to run to get yourself a baseline and you've run all those tests then we can restart go into the BIOS and start our overclocking adventures of course there are you two utilities that you can use to overclock from the operating system but since those aren't Universal I'm just going to show you guys how to do it from within the BIOS or UEFI is it's also known and to get there I'm just going to restart and as the computer's restarting or as its booting I'm going to be tapping the delete button to enter the BIOS system configuration I'm just tapping the delete button pretty rapidly as the system boots because systems tend to be pretty fast these days we should see the splash screen for the motherboard and you'll notice down here it says delete to enter BIOS once the vows pops up so then we can start with our overclocking now this is a gigabyte which is a UEFI BIOS and it actually has Mouse control and that kind of thing that you can do and here on the front page you'll see a lot of basic stuff so you'll see your CPU frequency right out of the gate you'll see your b c la v CL k or base clock which is pretty much always going to be a hundred megahertz although you can't adjust that more on that in a minute though and basically we're just going to go straight forward here we're going to be doing a multiplier based overclock it's also known as the ratio so i'm going to jump down to advanced frequency settings and we're going to go straight for a multiplier overclock so here we can see the base clock we're going to leave that as is right now the idea here is to pretty much leave everything in auto all we want to change is the multiplier which is also known as the ratio sometimes so here's a cpu clock ratio and we can just key in what we want or we can hit the plus or minus button to go upward I'm just going to punch in 46 just like that and that should give us as reflected right here 4.6 gigahertz and this was actually the first thing I did when I first got the CPU and then I rebooted and then I did a bunch of tests to 4.6 gigahertz and I found yes it worked actually quite stable II so bear in mind here that the multiplier times the base clock is what's going to give you your frequency so as long as you leave that base clock at 100 your math will be really easy and if you go for 44 for example that's 4.4 gigahertz if you go for 46 it's 4.6 gigahertz 48 is 4.8 and so on now that is basically it as far as like the simplest type of overclock we can get there's a couple other things I want to point out here that one is that you have profiles that are available in pretty much every modern UEFI and not just this gigabyte one here so we can use this to save profiles and this will allow us to for example save that 4.6 gigahertz overclock as is and then we can easily jump back to it it's also a good idea actually to come in here once you have just the system up and running for the first time with everything a default maybe save a default profile as well but we'll save that for point six profile two and there's one other thing that you might do when it comes to overclocking and that's going to be for memory and memory the easiest way to do it is just to use the XMP profiles so here we can just switch that to profile one like so and then we automatically get our 26.67 multiplier for the memory which gives us our memory speed of 20 667 which is what it's rated for out of the box now 21:33 is the base frequency for memory for skylake and you actually are only guaranteed to get that speed some CPUs might not be able to go higher frequencies so if you are having instability I'd recommend maybe pulling that XMP profile off going back to 2133 and testing there just to make sure that memory is not playing factory instability last thing to point out is that you want to save an exit and then it will reset and boot back into the operating system so I was able to boot back up just fine and from here I would go ahead and rerun all of those tests make sure I'm stable everything but you might be saying Paul you're giving us like the best case scenario and everything is working for you what what do we do if like things go wrong if you hang when you try to restart or if you have instability or even worst case scenario what if you can't get back into the BIOS change those settings that you just changed the answer is going to be right over here at least on this motherboard that's your clear CMOS CMOS and by holding that button down for about 10 seconds you can clear the memory in your BIOS or your UEFI that will reset everything back to its base settings and then you can go back in and start playing around again and often that also will leave or retain those profiles that you can save so that's why saving the profiles is a good idea because if you do have to clear the CMOS it allow you to really quickly get back in there let everything back up the way you had it and continue on your overclocking journey I'm going to jump back into the bass here real quick just to share a couple more things with you so let's say you do what I just did and you punch it in you're 4.6 in ear and new tests and you're like hey everything's working great I want to try to go for a little bit more and here actually can also see since I did the X and pew profile they have the memory it's also showing up right there but beyond that you would I mean you'd pretty much just do more the same which would go back the frequency settings and then go back to your clock ratio and maybe bump that up you can even go to into advanced settings for example and if you're not doing the overall clock ratio then you can actually do individual by core so you can say well if you're only using one core you can overclock yourself higher your turbo turbo boost a little bit higher so you can adjust those settings so the most popular thing to do to try to stabilize a higher higher frequency overclock is to add voltage so you can go to the voltage control here the CPU voltage you'll note here that the base is 1.2 volts I've already keyed in 1.2 75 with us with skylake processors you probably want to stick between 1.2 and 1.27 by volts if you can if you are overclocking you want to add voltage I'd say one point three two one point three seven five is where you'd want to go if you're going beyond that you can do that like one point three seven five to one point four to five for example just I would only recommend doing that temporarily or just like validate and overclock but don't run at really high voltages for long periods of time because it's it's just not a good idea and that's a way you can permanently damage your CPU is running at higher voltages also when you're running higher voltages you're going to get more higher temperatures so always keep an eye on your temperatures as well there's a couple of things you can do if you're trying to stabilize an overclock the CPU VCC IO and the system agent voltage adding a little bit to those is a great way to do that one last thing that I would say you can play around with if you're interested would be the base clock or BC LK that's located right here and this is something that's a change for skylake because you can actually do increments here so I could do like 101 for example and punch that in before you could only do straps like 125 was available and you can actually mess around with this a lot chances are you won't get too much more out of this based on what you might have already gotten just with the basic overclock but it's a way you can sort of eke out a little bit more performance by nudging that base clock up a few megahertz so after you set up your overclock you've done some stability testing to make sure everything's stable you're going to want to rerun those tests each ran back at the beginning to see what kind of performance improvement you got from your overclock to give you guys an example here are my performance results going from 4.2 gigahertz or the stock frequency of a 6700 K up to a 4.6 gigahertz turbo and there you have it guys if you want a to long didn't read version and you skipped to exactly this point in the video I will tell you if you want to do what I did just go into your BIOS set your multiplier to 4.6 hit save and be done with it because honestly that's the first thing I did with this overclock and that's all I was able to get out of it despite all of my testing after that that's still not a bad overclock at all though and I have heard the people are hitting 4.7 and 4.8 if you're overclocking at home though just make sure to monitor those temperatures don't run too high the voltage and of course you're assuming the risk of overclocking the hardware which is not always covered by the manufacturer's warranty remember if you have a skylake case q processor 6600 KR 6700 k just just overclock it even go for like four point four or four point five I can pretty much guarantee you'll be able to hit that without adjusting anything else and it's just like free performance that's there for the taking that is all for this video though guys if you enjoyed it don't forget to hit that like button and also down in the description you can find links to my store for example or you can buy t-shirts mugs and glasses also leave me a comment to let me know what CPU you're running if you overclocked it what frequency you were able to hit thanks again for watching this video though and we'll see you in the next one you