MSI B85-G43 gaming - OC Genie and a i5-4460?

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I'm wondering what this does, does it push the CPU a little harder?

I actually have a 212 Evo along with a good number of fans and good airflow on the 4460 since i initially owned and overclocked a FX-6300. I know you can't OC a Non-K Intel Haswell chip but i'm wondering what i should do to make sure i'm getting the most out of it.

Thanks for the help
 
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You don't need to change settings to keep it running at its default frequency in gaming and such. With Sandy and Ivy, you could take say a 3.3GHz i5 that is able to Turbo some of the time to 3.9GHz and trick it into always running at 3.9GHz, its max Turbo frequency. This might still be possible if the board's BIOS allows for it.

If you just want to keep your i5-4460 running at its intended frequency, then you shouldn't need to do anything other than making sure that Windows doesn't throttle it in the power management features. Setting the power plan to balanced or high performance would do this (one of these tow is usually Windows' default for desktops anyway), assuming nobody messed with your power plan settings and reduced the max...
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Many of the Haswell motherboards were able to force some overclocking like Z-series boards, but I don't think you'd get much out of an i5-4460 since the multiplier is still locked. You might be able to force it to run its higher Turbo frequency more easily like we could with Sandy and Ivy, I don't know if this still worked on Haswell.
 
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I don't expect phenomenal improvements, i just want to make sure i'm getting the most i can.
 
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blazorthon

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If the board has the options for it in the BIOS, you could start with a small BCLK bump to between 102MHz and 105MHz or so from its stock 100MHz. That'll give you a small CPU frequency boost.

Does the BIOS specify what it can do with overclocking, maybe in the manual?
 
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blazorthon

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You don't need to change settings to keep it running at its default frequency in gaming and such. With Sandy and Ivy, you could take say a 3.3GHz i5 that is able to Turbo some of the time to 3.9GHz and trick it into always running at 3.9GHz, its max Turbo frequency. This might still be possible if the board's BIOS allows for it.

If you just want to keep your i5-4460 running at its intended frequency, then you shouldn't need to do anything other than making sure that Windows doesn't throttle it in the power management features. Setting the power plan to balanced or high performance would do this (one of these tow is usually Windows' default for desktops anyway), assuming nobody messed with your power plan settings and reduced the max CPU state below 100%.

The CPU states should be 5% minimum and 100% maximum. Again, these are the defaults, so you shouldn't need to set it yourself.
 
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