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so many of you have been asking me Greg upload an overclocking guide so I don't know specifically what CPUs you wanted me to overclock but I do have two builds completely assembled and on hand currently one of them is right there that's the 4690k build from a few videos ago and the other ones in my office and we're just going to use that one because it's already plugged in I don't feel like moving things around so 6600 K it is we're gonna overclock the 6600 K to as high as we possibly can with a Kraken x31 cooler from NZXT let's see how high things go before sparks fly now I'm just kidding we're not gonna go that far but we're going to go as high as the cpu will allow us while maintaining adequate temperatures in this case I'll say anything under ADC is acceptable and without going above like a crazy Veeck or maybe like 1.45 no no no we'll find out so very quickly a disclaimer on the overclocking guy that you're about to see remember the overclocking your CPU can pretty much avoid any warranty you have even if it's a KC PU so if you overclock your cpu too much and I don't know you throw too much voltage at it something that you shouldn't be doing and you end up damaging your CPU or your motherboard or your graphics card or anything else that's connected directly to your processor those things aren't going to be covered by any warranty because you pretty much voided it yourself when you decided to throw one point nine volts of V core at your CPU so keep those things in mind I have to say that up front because I could yeah I'm not liable for any of that stuff but I don't even want people to assume the fact that I am liable because I'm not don't do anything weird to your processor yo okay so a quick quick explanation of overclocking all we're going to be doing in this video is tampering with two separate things okay a one is the multiplier and what is the vcore you can't have one without the other you can't have super-high multiplier which is basically a number times your base clock frequency which is typically a hundred megahertz so in our case 46 times 100 megahertz is 4.6 gigahertz which is what our i5 6600 K is currently at and if I decided to increase that multiplier to 48 48 times 100 is 4.8 gigahertz so that's how the multiplier works just a number that is multiplied by your base clock frequency and that gives you your CPU frequency overall but the other side of this equation is the V Corps and the V Corps is the amount of voltage that is supplied directly to the processor not enough voltage and your CPU won't even turn on it's a bit like not having gasoline in a car if you catch my drift but having too much voltage can result in an extremely hot processor and probably a processor with an extremely short life span so that's why I said what I said up front in the disclaimer these kinds of things can reduce the longevity of your processor and just may cause your system to altogether just poop out on you so things things get pretty risky when it comes to overclocking if you don't know what you're doing that's why I'm going to make this video this hopefully should alleviate some of your concerns so let's get right to it so the first thing we're going to do is shut down our computer let it down we're going to restart it and we're going to click delete in our case maybe it's f2 for you maybe it's something like f12 I don't know it's going to be the button that forces your computer into it the BIOS refer to your motherboards manual if you don't know what button that is okay we're going to go right here to overclock and then alright so remember I was talking about with your multiplier and your V core well this right here is our multiplier so this number times a base clock frequency of 100 yields the gigahertz part of the frequency of your CPU so in our case 4.6 gigahertz 46 times 100 the other factor in this particular overclocking guide will be the core voltage this is your V core may not always be called the core it may be called core voltage or something else just make sure that you know which one you're tampering with make sure that you're confident this one is the vcore but obviously if I plan on going any higher than 46 on my multiplier I'm going to need more voltage in fact if I just left this excuse me if I just left my voltage at 1.32 and turn this to say 48 my computer would crash instantly it wouldn't even boot in the operating system but we're going to go ahead and try 48 so 4.8 gigahertz and we're going to set our V core let's say one point isn't going to be tough here one point three eight two one point three eight and okay so we have booted successfully into our OS we are currently at four point eight gigahertz and I will confirm that with little hardware monitor right here go ahead and zoom in the middle sorry this is so unprofessional ish I have one camera and one screen and one one body so kind of when I'm stuck out right now so we're at four point eight gigahertz that's what it's showing right here and our temperatures are looking phenomenal at least at idle now we're going to give our CPU a little stress test I always like to do this because this will confirm if our CPU is actually stable now you could use something like i-264 or even prime95 if you're hardcore but Cinebench will do just fine for right now so we're going to run this test and we're going to observe our CPU temperatures at the same time and now this is very difficult for you guys to see because this is so far zoomed out I don't want to run the screen recorder because well that's going to make things a bit worse okay folks so we have our CPU usage right here so you want to keep track of that these will all jump up to 100 when I finally runs to the bench and then these are our temperatures currently all around 20 C set for the package which is closer to 30 C those are still very good idle temperatures keep in mind we're only cooling this with a cracking x31 so this is a single spyware no this is only being cold with an X 31 cracking from NZXT it's only a 120 millimeter radiator and we're still getting these very low temperatures at idle with a 4.8 gigahertz overclock so let's go and run set a benchmark 15 and let's cross our fingers and hope that our computer does not crash in the process oh it did okay so that is what it looks like when you when you don't have enough voltage that is what happens it may say something like watchdogs it may see something else kind of weird but for the most part if you are overclocking you need a blue screen of death randomly at any point when your CPU is under quite a bit of stress that is likely what is going on you do not have enough voltage being supplied to your processor so it's actually not very difficult to to fix all we got to do is just increase our vcore so go back into overclock and I don't know why that's read maybe saying that's too high I don't know why the effective is lower that's a little strange let's do one point for getting pretty high all right folks this is getting a little uncomfortable now okay now we're into operating system should be more stable than it was in the previous run just because we do have more voltage being supplied but at the same time our temperatures could be quite a bit higher these things tend to exponentially increase once you pass a certain threshold I think we're right on the verge of doing that with this processor attempts are still pretty good we're still mid mid 20s on most of our cores and still right under 30 C for our package nope gonna crash yeah it froze here comes the blue screen everyone blue screen there it is there it is clock watchdog timeout so our CPU still does not having a voltage to operate at 4.8 gigahertz you guys see how intense this is this is this is we've hit a wall here 4.8 gigahertz is just that's just too high for most of these processors let's see what we can do here msi is telling us oh you're in red 1.4 is just too high well I don't care let's try 1.4 to like I said 1.45 is as high as I'm going so that is it and yep telling that's 1.4 1.4 to go ahead and reset check our temperatures once again things are definitely a bit higher so our idols are just under 30 see our package every now and then is jumping up about 40 see yeah so we're still pretty good considering the amount of voltage we are currently supplying to the processor actually not bad this thing has a very high heat tolerance on it looks good temperatures are still under 50 C under full load but can it pass the whole test that is the question and we are at 777 C CD C I said CP I have been saying CP in the past couple videos CB is where I meant so we're at 777 CV currently and our max temperature and all of our cours things never got above 51 C and our package also never got above 51 C that is very very impressive I am very impressed with this processor and this cooler we we got very lucky very lucky with this chip here so I'm going to save that score because that's a pretty darn good score and we're going to run one more test we're going to run Geekbench because heat bench isn't going to absolutely murder our CPU but it's gonna put it under some stress as well likely as much as some of our gains we'll all right we finished a geek bench in 50 seconds flat and our single core score is 4896 that is pretty awesome that's a very high single core score in our multi-core score is fifteen thousand six eighty six which is up there with the lower end i 7s so not bad at all that's a that's a very good score that is a very good score but our single core score I think is even more noteworthy that's that's almost 5000 I don't think there's a single processor that's sold to consumers at this point it gets anywhere near that so 4896 is very good very very good for our little I 560 600 K here I'm gonna go to one point four five whoa there we go yeah one point four five volts that's freakin high guys that's really high boy mmm-hmm and we're just gonna go 249 first yeah okay okay I don't know ah V chord a for one point four five and multiplier 449 okay yeah here we go I would be surprised that this even booted for point nine is super super high that's that's very high for a 120 millimeter radiator and at 6600 K sure all right it looks like we're gonna get a crash because uh yeah we're definitely gonna get a crash yep there we go blue screen guys that's about it I'm not going any higher than that I don't feel comfortable pushing this to 1.5 volts it's definitely not rated to receive that much of a voltage increase I'm not going to go that high I'm going to keep it for the sake of I don't know if just being a good role model I'm going to keep it at 4.8 gigahertz but I am going to up the voltage just a bit so we're going to go to 48 yep and I'm going to keep the vcore will do 1.44 and that's where it's going to stay guys I think that 1.44 is it's going to be just fine and our temperatures are relatively low so even if it's not as low as it could be 1.44 should be just fine so there you have it folks 4.8 gigahertz for the V core of 1.4 if 3 will say it was stable ish at 1.4 - but I have a feeling that it would probably blue screen on me if I decided to run prime95 or a 264 or even game very intensely so 1.4 3 is where I'm going to keep it at I will keep you updated if I have to raise that voltage any higher but for now we'll say that one point 4 3 is pretty stable let me know what you're sporting in your rig if you currently have an overclocked CPU be sure to list that CPUs name frequency V core and corresponding cooler in the comments below we'd all be very curious to know what you're currently sporting and what you're currently sporting it AK you know frequency wise see I'd do that for us and then I'll be sure to LIKE the video if you liked it dislike it if you disliked it I know this was a little less professional than what the video content usually is on this channel but that's the process that I go through when I overclock and I wanted to show you guys it's really that simple all I do is mess with the volt the multiplier and the vcore that's really it there are other things you could change like your PCI line frequencies and things like that but I don't mess with any of that this process here is very simple anybody with the proper hardware can do it this is science studio thanks for learning with this