Credits for this guide go to elmor. Thanks for your work! WARNING: This may cause your system not to start. Use at your own risk. The procedure below allows you to flash an older BIOS on motherboards without USB BIOS Flashback feature. The lack of this feature means there’s no simple way to recover if things go wrong. This will help
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Pro OC overclocker Alva “Lucky_n00b” Jonathan dives in to optimizing RAM performance for Futuremark’s latest DirectX12 benchmark Time Spy. It’s been only a few weeks since Futuremark’s latest Benchmark, 3DMark Time Spy, was released to public. Now, overclockers and enthusiasts alike can start benching their system, and find out how their system compare to each other in that shiny new DX12
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On this page we compile an overview of all the Z170 Non-K Overclocking enabled BIOSes from ASUS, ASRock, GIGABYTE and MSI. Updated regularly! Compatible CPUs for non-K OC: If you have any kind of questions or problems, don’t hesitate to ask in the forums: http://overclocking.guide/overclocking-guide-forum/ Changelog: 21.12.2015: ASUS
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Few days ago the overclocker DHENZJHEN uncovered the Skylake Non-K overclocking capabilities of the Supermicro H170 mainboard and set serveral new top scores on HWBOT.org with an overclocked Intel Core i3 6320 at about 5 GHz. He also found out that the overclocking limit was only caused by the BIOS itself. There was no special hardmod needed to overclock the Core
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Skylake delidding seems to be very common by now. Every day I read postings from people complaining about Intel and the thermal paste between IHS and die. Even tho Skylake is performing great, people are not satisfied with the temperatures on load. Compared to older generations there is conventional thermal paste between the IHS and the die while Sandy Bridge and
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Intel just released the new Skylake CPUs and so far the CPUs seem to be great for overclocking. I already had the chance to test some 6700Ks during the ASUS Absolute Zero event few weeks ago to see how they scale with extreme cold – impressive! Depending on the individual chip quality 6,0 – 6,8 GHz is possible on LN2 and
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Last year I published a thermal paste review on HWBot Forums. In total I tested 26 different thermal pastes on air and also using liquid nitrogen at different temperatures. Early 2015 I will publish a new and even more detailed test with new products and also liquid metal products. To provide accurate results I built a new test bench for
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All modifications at your own risk! Make sure you know what you are doing. Be aware that you will lose the warranty of your hardware. Equipment The equipmen is very important for successful voltmodding. I use an ERSA RDS-80 soldering iron station with 80 W and a maximum temperature of 450°C. Don’t be afraid of the high temperature. The higher
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First of all I want to thank GIGABYTE. I had the possibility to bench at their OC Lab in Taipei, Taiwan for one week. Without their resources (CPUs and motherboars) I would not have figured this out. Thanks a lot guys especially Sofos and HiCookie! NOTE: This is all based on some reverse engineering and experimenting. I’m just reporting what
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The risks of overclocking Basic knowledge To understand the risks of overclocking we have to take a look at the physical basics of your CPU/GPU. Processors contain millions of transistors which are made out of doped silicon. Silicon and change of Temperature Silicon is a semiconductor which means that it’s naturally not conductive. However if you add few atoms such as
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