Overclocking Non-K I5-6400 Hyper 212 EVO

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My apologies for reposting but i can not find a difinitive answer despite my looking in this forum and many other places. I am really looking for an answer to if i am allowed to do this amount of overclocking and over voltages with the cooler master hyper 212 evo, it is less expensive to get a new cooler than it is to replace my CPU :)

So here is the message i have already found that it is easier to jsut get inot the BIOS and read the temp, especially with SSD i am able to get into the BIOS without too much cool off time after a 15-20min prime95 test.





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Is there any program to monitor the temperature of the CPU with software currently on the new F5G OC'ing BIOS for my z170 DH3P motherboard?

I am currently running an EVGA super nova 750 80 plus bronze certified, the motherboard above, intel i5-6400 @ 4.38 GHZ on a cooler master hyper 212 evo. I am using a Vcore of 1.325V and am keeping my memory slightly under the clock rating that they are sold at, and have seen no difference in performance lowering the RAM's clock speed slightly (I have 16GB DDR4 2400MHZ). I need to know because after running the Prime 95 CPU stress test blend test i quickly (SSD) booted down and got into the BIOS and saw the temp was only 35C so either i have hit the proverbial silicon lottery, or the CPU in the time that the computer took to get to the BIOS cooled down.

I would also like to know how far i can push the i5-6400 safely on the Hyper 212 Evo with the results that i have been receiving or a program that would let me monitor the temps then i could make sure i am not killing the CPU!

Thanks for the help again and again, this forum is the best!

Jason H

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I asked a similar question a while back (about how to read temp) and never got a response.

After experimenting a bit, I found that even though core temps are unreadable, CPU and Package temps seem to be reported accurately. So I just watched those temps when I was playing around with non-k skylake OC. There are probably a variety of programs that report these values, I use HWInfo.
 
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It says, although not what i set in the bios that my V-core is 1.76V and yet CPUID itself says that the core voltage is what i set it at 1.320V, which do i go by?

EDIT: all of the above no longer applies i am using HWinfo and as long as this information is accurate everything is back in order! Thanks so much for the help!
 
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when you are not stressing the cpu it will be a lower vcore. Once you stop stressing the cpu your cpu temp will drop instantly almost. Also 1.325 sound a little high on the vcore.. Have you found a lower vcore thats stable? When i stress my cpu in testing it hits 56c max and when i close it down it drops within 1-2 seconds to basically idle temps. Also HWmonitor, Realtemp, Coretemp are 3 good softwares for monitoring temps and voltages. Shows you current, min,max readings.
 
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Thanks for the recommendations on the software, I checked out HWmonitor which did not give me the temperature readout that i was looking for. Funny you should ask about what Vcore i have been using because recently i have been trying to dial it down and so far i am all the way down to 1.31V,

I was getting that number, the 1.325 from many videos about overclocking this chip but also this guide on overclocking.guide

"My i5-6400 turned out to be great and I could even run 4725 MHz on 1.375 Volt which equals an incredible overclocking of 75 %"

When i was stress testing the CPU, have yet to do so on the lower Vcore as i had to format and lost everything but the BIOS last night, i only reached 42C avg and 45C max so hopefully i will be able to push it a bit furthur in the future with a better CPU cooler.

Thanks for the input!

Jason H
 
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