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hey everyone great here with science studio there's been a lot of talk in the texts fear side of the internet in regards to the ability to overclock non K yeah that's right non K Intel skylake CPUs for instance the Intel sixty four hundred sixty five hundred and sixty six hundred are all non k variants of the 6600 K but are significantly cheaper than the latter and while Intel doesn't normally offer any unlocked version of their i3 processors anyway we'd still would like to see the potential that the i3 offers when overclocked to let's say four point three or four point four gigahertz there have been reviews out already claiming that the i3 6100 was able to reach four point seven gigahertz which is crazy and honestly I don't know if that was on air or on water but in this case since we only have a cooler master hyper t4 with us in our i three rig we're just going to stick with air and see how far we can get it and all of that will be shown in this video so stay tuned for that one important thing to note about this overclocking guide that this video will likely become is that this is going to be for a specific set of people now what do I mean by that as of the recording date of this video I believe it's the 16th of December only people who have as Roxas e170 motherboards will be able to take advantage of this overclocking guide now pay attention to this part especially if you're not familiar with overclocking when you are overclocking or for whatever reason under clocking there are two I guess parameters to take note of the first is the base clock the base clock is just it's just a number really just between typically 100 and 150 and also the multiplier also just a number but it's typically much lower than the base clock number so when it comes to calculating the frequency at which your CPU will operate under optimal load simply multiply the base clock value by your multiplier so in the case of the i3 6100 the base clock is typically I believe almost in all cases really typically at 100 and the multiplier is 37 so when you multiply it 100 times 37 that gives you a value of 3700 this is 3700 megahertz or 3.7 gigahertz and this is the rated stock value of the i3 6100 frequency in most cases when overclocking any unlocked CPU the multiplier is the one that typically changes the multiplier doesn't affect anything else on the motherboard or anywhere else in the system other than the CPU frequency but in the case of this overclock the BIOS update that I'll talk about in a second that goes along with the z170 asrock perform or that we have will only allow us to change the base clock value of our CPU this could have some unknown consequences the base clock value is known to kind of change frequencies a bit with our RAM and if you saw our RAM overclocking video you know that having set values for your RAM frequency is very important especially when it comes to gaming and rendering and things of that sort but overclocking Ram is tricky and if you don't mess with voltages too much you can lead to system crashes and you know having to reset your CMOS a bunch of things that are just quite frankly unwanted and large waste of time so with that I am going to say this do this at your own risk make sure that what you do to your CPU and to your memory I guess as a result in your BIOS is sound and makes sense I don't overclock your cpu to like 5 gigahertz and then restart your system and expect it to boot up that's that's crazy especially through not changing any voltage values there are plenty of diets on YouTube and just online in general in regards to overclocking a CPU appropriately so if you're not familiar with a gradual increase in voltage as you increase your multiplier or base clock then kind of stay away from this video from now and read up on those things first we will have a video up on science Studios YouTube page shortly about how to properly overclock a CPU but until then make sure you do your research before you do this we're only making this video right now because the the Intel was kind of released for the Intel for the Intel processor it's only a few days ago so this is very new this is a very experimental in fact the BIOS that we're going to install onto our pro 4 board is only in the beta stage so we're taking actually quite a big risk here with updating a BIOS and as you know I personally don't like updating BIOS is in general especially if the computer is already running stable so keep all those things in mind before you actually go into doing what we're about to do so the first thing we're going to do is our research and if you follow along with us you'll quickly find that Tom's or calm is a pretty excellent article on how to overclock it lists all of the I guess compatible motherboards here in this list and then tells you which BIOS update you'll need for that particular motherboard so as we selected our as we found these were pretty much the regular BIOS updates but then we popped over to the beta tab and found two possible beta updates the one that we want of course is going to be the flash ready BIOS update simply because all we'll have to do is drag that onto a thumb drive and then let our by us do the rest so like the BIOS corresponding to your motherboard and then download it to the root of your USB Drive that you use to boot from in the following step once the ROM saves on to your USB thumb drive go ahead and eject it appropriately don't just pull the thing out but eject it appropriately to ensure that the data you just transferred transfers successfully and kind of sticks trust me you don't want a bad BIOS ROM that would be catastrophic so the first thing we're going to do is go ahead and plug in our USB thumb drives into the computer with our asrock pro 4 LGA 1151 motherboard hopefully this works I have no idea cross my fingers so for asrock motherboards I believe how to get in the BIOS is just f2 so yeah should hear a little beep if you have a speaker in there okay so we are in the BIOS I haven't reset my my ram speed so it's actually still at 21 33 but I believe this is where we're supposed to go instant flash so that was what it said on the on the azrog motherboard website that we downloaded the instant flash rom so let's uh let's see what it's going to do okay so it's going to scan through and it's going to say well you've got a couple roms here so right exactly so if you didn't notice before what we did was we put the extracted folder in there we put the non extracted folder in there and then just the plain old ROM in the in the USB thumb drive just in case because I wasn't sure which one the BIOS would prefer so I'm probably just going to go with the regular stock not stock but I'm probably going to go with the regular ROM that's not in a zip file so that would be this one two point eight three is the BIOS update that will allow us to overclock so that's the one that we're going to do hopefully this this works let's see how it goes okay so it turned off like I said I have no idea what this is supposed to do I don't like updating BIOS so it's doing its own thing is it gonna boot okay all right so it's flashing right now this is important you don't want your computer to turn off why this is updating so if we were to have a sudden power outage right now I would be Sol not even kidding and once your BIOS becomes corrupted your whole motherboard is fried and becomes just a large paperweight so you really really want this to finish don't touch anything let it do its thing I don't know what that is but yeah just make sure if you have a UPS or something like a power supply that will keep your computer running in the event of a power outage that's even better just make sure that when you're doing it there's not like a storm outside or you know make sure you have a reliable power so all this stuff is important you don't want to cut off any of this it's updating the UEFI right now that's super super important that's like our whole BIOS so don't touch anything like I said let this do its thing if this cuts off at any point while this is filming like I said I'm Sol so like you know do this at your own risk this is there's a sensitive stuff I I get so antsy when it comes to updating BIOS as I had do not like this I don't like leaving the fate of my computer in the hands of my local power company I'll speed it up by the way right now I'll just go ahead and fast-forward and then you know if anything happens I'll slow it down for you okay so I'm slowing it back down for you guys see it's actually speeding up the closer we get to 100% so I probably like left the rest of this go out just so you can get an idea of how long it should take for your biased updates you know what the you know worry or anything like that even though I am still worrying because it's not finished yet it's scaring me okay so I've got off of Ford hit 100% that's not cool even if it was finished that still is uncool oh and should be at a post hoping see this is this is the stuff right Jesus maybe I don't like this oh that is scary okay so it looks like it might be booting into the OS now which would mean I assume that the BIOS is updated successfully yep okay so we're in we're into the operating system so that for the most part means that the BIOS updated successfully I was very scary but I wanted to show you the whole process of updating a BIOS just have a backup there's I don't believe there's any way to backup your previous BIOS if there is in your particular BIOS for whatever motherboard you have definitely take advantage of that but what I did just in case we happen to have a BIOS of a failure I had another 2.8 BIOS update which is just a regular non-beta BIOS that I would have updated if that one had failed and the most important thing about failing bios's is that if the BIOS does fail to update do not turn off your computer because then you're not going to be able to boot into your regular cycle because your motherboard has no idea what is loaded on to the C Mo's so yeah just make sure that you have some backups that's pretty much the rule of thumb here now what I did while we were on the desktop was make sure that all my programs worked correctly I know the BIOS really did that much to do with how the operating system actually operates but I did want to make sure that there were no stability issues with that update being that it's a beta BIOS and you know I'm just not sure how everything's going to communicate with the new update so that's what I was doing in between these these film cuts so yeah all right so it's restarted get that f2 going should hear the beep and if you have a speaker I recommend getting a speaker just turn off the part where it beeps when you start up and Wow okay so right okay so this is completely different than the older BIOS that we were sporting yeah I'm just I guess we're just gonna have to figure this out as we go I thought this would be similar to so what we while we were looking at before so all right that being said it does look like they did a pretty good job with changing everything and making it look more I mean all the system information you would ever want to see I presume would be on this homepage here for the BIOS so that's nice so fan status it's a pretty big thing you can change I believe here the the fan speed so let's see we do that performance okay so that's going to speed up the fans so you can see our pans are increasing naturally now they're getting even higher than that I don't know why that one's whacked out sometimes it hits like 20,000 rpm but of course that's not really the case so I believe advanced mode is where we're supposed to go that was the same same thing with a soos yes I do want to switch to advanced mode I just clicked it out enough oh okay all right okay okay well so that looks much better this is what we're familiar with so first thing we're going to want to do over here overclocked weaker and then a CPU configuration is likely where we're going to have to go did we just get a freeze yeah okay so it looks like our BIOS just froze on us that kind of that kind of sucks it did this actually I should admit it did this with the original BIOS that we had that looked just like this so um you know this it's just it's a BIOS so that's why I hate updating because it really these things never get fixed but uh I guess it freezes let's see if we can okay just control I'll delete it reset the thing and let's try again see if it works yeah that really sucked let's see one more time I'm gonna try to be more fluid this time should I be quicker maybe it was just a timing thing so okay CPU boom so it looks like we can change our Wow okay okay so this is our base clock basically us what B clock stands for didn't know that before okay so B clock is big clock frequency so that's what we can change and that's presumably what this update was all about this beta released by asrock for these z170 boards that they have in the market now so this is what we're going to use to change our CPU frequency so obviously if you're wanting to overclock you're going to want to disable this while this is spread spectrum this is the one that you're going to want to do okay so let's just do 100 and let's see should stay the same okay so let's do 105 now you should notice up here is that our frequency is going to change because we've increased our base clock so yeah alright so right now if we decided to boot into our operating system with just changing this you know base clock frequency to 105 our target CPU speed is going to be 38 85 megahertz which is I mean that's that's good that means that we actually can overclock our lock to Intel i3 skylake CPU so that's pretty awesome I'm gonna see I don't want to mess with voltages I really don't know if we can even mess with voltages that might be why the limit for a lot of the articles I was reading about in regards to this could only get about 4.6 cuz for Ponce's gigahertz that's likely because they couldn't increase the voltage any more than that may have been just because of temps I don't know but we'll find that out here that's that's what I want to do that's the point of this video so okay let's just uh let's just leave it there so it's at 4 gigahertz 4.1 almost and then what we're going to do is go ahead and save this configuration and hope that it sticks and hope that our system is actually stable when we do that if not and we cease to be able to enter our BIOS we are probably going to have to reset ASIMO's and then you know reconfigure everything so overclocking is it's it takes a lot of takes a lot of trial and error and the errors can be pretty substantial so I'm gonna go ahead and at this thing just boot all the way through make sure that it actually functions and ok so what I did was move this computer this was the one that we did the whole BIOS update on put it into moved it to kind of a workstation to the back of the house went ahead and wired it up via ethernet cable and then I found out that my Wi-Fi router came in so I went hadn't plugged it and set that all up and what I want to do is show you the core temperatures and the core clock speed of our supposedly overclocked i3 6100 so we'll pull up cpuid and yep there we have it our Intel i3 6100 of course is overclocked core speed right there is four thousand and seventy megahertz which is exactly what we expected it to be so that means that our overclock is sticking and so I think yeah what actually I went and did was I went ahead and reloaded software entirely and basically wiped the slate clean and verified there after that the overclock actually stuck through the entire OS wipe process so the story notice doesn't affect the overclock in the BIOS so that might be normal I'm not sure but that is pretty cool so there you have it you can in fact overclock and I 360 180 locked nan K Intel skylake processor in this case we were successfully able to overclock the core i3 now I'm not going to overclock any higher than this particularly because of the temps this is what's scary here I'm gonna use hardware monitor for some reason I cannot find my CPU temperature anywhere it's not just in this app actually either see I can't find it I mean the CPU TN but that's not the same it's not the actual temperature of the CPU it should be around here somewhere but the temperature gauge is not loading of course we have temperatures for everything else but not for the CPU so what I tried to do was use a different program I went in here and used real temp which is like it's just another application that I found online and what it's telling me is that my CPU temps are 100 degrees Celsius which is obviously not the case so yeah it's not true I'm sitting right above the computer it's not hot at all it's not pushing out any eat really I mean it's idle anyway so I know that's not correct and I think what may have happened was the BIOS update may have I don't know maybe messed up a couple of sensors not too sure but you know if that's a big deal to you you know maybe stay away from this for that reason in particular maybe a few threats ago got messed up but your ability to monitor the CPU temperatures in this case are going to be hindered I will continue investigating that but like I said you can overclock and i3 6100 and there's proof in the pudding right there so let me go ahead and run one more test going to install yeah I have to install it Geekbench and we'll see how that performs and we'll compare the scores we had a geek bench before the old clock with the scores that we're gonna have now with the overclock so we'll go ahead and install that very quick here boom and then let's go ahead and run it so it should be a bit of a CPU performance increase let's see how it goes I'll go ahead and run it just in real-time and that you guys see the whole process if you want go ahead and fast-forward through this set know by the way I know it says 3.3 gigahertz there but that's that's not the case I really don't know like II been just saying that but it's not a 3.3 gigahertz okay so it looks like it's going to take around one minute and 15 seconds and our score Wow a single core score 41:22 and our multi-core score is 8808 that is pretty awesome that's definitely higher than our previous single core score and our multi-core score I believe well let's uh let's go ahead and put up the old scores yeah so there is an increase 41 22 verse 38 86 and 28 excuse me 8808 versus 82 1 7 it's pretty awesome there are benefits to reap in this case I believe that this is overclocked to what the other websites were claiming they were able to get theirs to 4.5 4.6 secure Hertz I do believe that this I three will approach I five territory that is pretty awesome so basically I guess the rule of thumb here is you don't have to purchasing a processor to take advantage of the excellent performance of an intel k processor so I went ahead and turn the phone around real quick I just want to end by saying this I appreciate your patience please do this at your own risk this is new this is in beta phase I mean everything about this is in beta phase it works for me but you know it might not work for you make sure that you do if you decide to pursue this have azrog z170 and as Weka see what semi chipset for your motherboard and make sure that you don't over clock like chaotically don't go to like 5 or 5.5 diggers that's insane I don't know if any process or other than you know maybe like the 8350 that would reach that on air so keep all that in mind do it at your own risk but you'll have fun experiment do it safely and you should see results like mine that we've seen here so that's about it guys leave a thumbs up if you thought this video was pretty cool leave a thumbs down if you thought we'd do lots like a thumb sideways leave a thumbs down if you didn't think we did too well let us know what we can do to improve our videos as 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