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so today we're going to take a look at how to overclock your skylake CPU and I'm going to do this in a megaman shirt ok so let's get straight on with this overclocking tutorial and the first thing you want to do is grab a program called aida64 now put the link in the description below and where you can download this but essentially it's a program that will allow you to monitor your voltage and also stress your CPU to sort of ascertain whether you've got a stable overclock or not so after you've got this program and installed it and got it already you can then click power and then just restart your computer and now once you've restarted your computer upon booting it up you just press the Delete key or the f2 key depending on the BIOS or the maker of your motherboard now something that I will stress about overclocking is that the BIOS on my motherboard is the MSI bias if you've got an asrock motherboard or in a Zeus model order a gigabyte motherboard it's going to look a little bit different to you to what I'm using but it will have a lot of the same features whether they just be under similar names or slightly different names so once you're in the boss it'll look like this if you're in the MSI boss you can then press f7 and that'll change it to the advanced view this is the view that I like to use here and so the first thing you want to go to is overclock and now there should be a list of options here so for the purposes of this tutorial I'll leave it on Explorer mode normal even though I do like to use expert but for what's worth will just put it on normal here and then with your numpad so this is one thing you have to make sure is that you're using your numpad I don't know how many people message me saying Brian I can't overclock I can't set any settings in manually that's because you have to use your numpad on your keyboard so with that being said we're going to go for a 4.2 gigahertz overclock which is pretty much a base overclock and it's guaranteed on pretty much any 6600 K or any 6700 K so on the cpu ratio there just press 42 on your numpad and press the Enter key on your numpad so now the Ring ratio this is something going to stress don't worry about is if you're a beginner it's not really worth it as long as you can see here as long as the core the ring ratio is below the CPU ratios you can see here it's at 3.9 gigahertz or 339 hundred megahertz that's going to be perfectly fine we don't have to touch that setting and then we can go down here to the actual voltages the CPU core voltage I'm going to guess I'm just going to say 1.25 volt should be easily obtainable on any 6600 Cal 6700 K to get a 4.2 gigahertz overclock though if it's not you might want to give it a little bit more voltage by pressing the plus key on your numpad so you can get the designated voltage there but one thing to keep in mind is a you can just set that to one point two five volt and that's all you really have to worry about with a basic overclock so let's try that out we'll just restart our computer now so we go up to the X symbol here you can also use your mouse as well if that's plugged in and you just go yes so save configuration yes and now upon rebooting our computer we just take it into i-264 stress test it if it's crashing if your computer is crashing then you will want to go back into this bias by pressing delete and then giving that voltage just a little bit more one thing to keep in mind is that I do not recommend going past one point three five volt on the CPU core this is on Windows 10 at the moment so I'm using Windows 10 and on the skylake architecture so once you're on the desktop here you just open up I 264 and you go yes and then once we're in the program here we can then sorry that's that's just my computer I upgraded to Windows 10 so it's a little bit buggy we'll forget about that you go up once you're into either 64 we just go up to tools here and then we just go up to system to ability tests so we open that one up go up to tools again and open up I 264 CPU ID so what this will do is this will give you an idea of how much voltage your CPU is running at and also your if you stress test it what temperatures you will get so once we've got those two loaded up we can then click on start here so hits art and as you see here it's loading up the CPU to its maximum capability there so stress testing it in other words and you want to run this for at least a good ten minutes I find after about ten minutes you're really homing in on either stable or near stable though honestly if you've got a full stable overclock and you can't risk anything crashing then you're obviously going to want to do some real-world benchmarks because I've found that I can run benchmarks like prime95 like I 264 for a good 24 hours and my programs still crash occasionally and so I've had to up the CPU voltage anyway so one thing to keep in mind with these stress tests is is that they won't give you a complete guarantee sometimes of a 24/7 or 24 hours a day seven days a week overclock so what we've got here is pretty much like I'm pretty sure that this overclock should be okay so we're just going to test this out for ten minutes and then we'll jump back to see if it did pass the test so as you can see here after about ten minutes of passing the stress test it's still running fine at 4.2 gigahertz at one point two five volt now one thing you will want to take a look at quickly as well are your temperatures as you can see here I just got over 50 degrees on one of my cores here so that's really good temperatures I'd say once you start going around about 80 degrees 85 degrees that's when you have to worry because your CPU will actually start to throttle and that'll mean reduce performance though at these temperatures my CPU is perfectly fine it's not going to throttle at all so there you have it guys that is a 4.2 gigahertz overclock done very easily now one thing I will do just to assure that this is a stable overclock is I will load up some games play some games obviously start doing maybe a little light render just the test and make sure that the overclock is okay though if it does start crashing I will want to go back into the BIOS and just give it a little more voltage also before we go out I'll quickly recommend some other popular overclocks maybe 4.4 gigahertz at 1.3 volts so that's another popular overclock however keep in mind and the is one thing I'm going to stress before we close out is that every CPU is different some CPUs may be able to get to 4.6 gigahertz at 1.3 volt some may only be able to get to 4.2 so as I was saying before if that 4.2 gigahertz crashes you might have to give it a little bit more voltage here so it really is just a matter of testing out your own CPU and finding the overclocks with this correlation here between voltages and the CPU ratio so however my CPU does get to 4.6 gigahertz at one point three five volts I don't know what happened there one point three five volts so that's how that's about where my CPU tops out at I can't get it to boot at four point eight I can get it just to boot at four point seven though it isn't stable at those speeds however four point six gigahertz is highly satisfiable and I'm really happy with this overclock so we'll just close out there you can also yeah quickly mention four point four at one point three volt so there's some popular over clocks for you guys however I'm just going to close out at four point six and see if that runs for you guys and then we'll move over to a quick conclusion so that we have it there guys that is a four point six gigahertz overclock and that's a one point three five volt now also about memory I would recommend for the better part just locking in those XMP profiles and I'll put in a guide in the description below a link where you can check it out on how to lock in X and P profiles for your memory but that is very straightforward as well so with that being said we'll move on now to a quick conclusion so there you have it guys that is a real basic oh sure so that you have a guy that is a real basic how-to on how to overclock your skylake CPU that's the 6600 K or the 6700 K and honestly they're not going to differ when it comes to overclocking they're going to pretty much require the same voltages to get to the same speed on average so anyway guys if you have any questions on how to overclock your skylake CPU or anything you wish no further then drop a comment in the comment section below and I'll get back to you as soon as I can and also don't forget to leave a like and subscribe to take your city you want to see more tech news and reviews but that being said I'm gonna peace out and I'll catch you later bye