Overclocking i5 6600k on Asus Z170-A with Evo 212 Cooler Master (no GPU)

dsr07mm · Apr 1, 2016

So basically, are there any cpu intensive games, but mostly cpu which igp can do work and I can actually see overlock improvement ? I'm not gonna torture cpu with prime95 but I will do h264 1080p render for example since that is most intensive task in my work (or my wife since it's for her). I'm waiting for Asus Strix gtx960 next Saturday so I wanna overclock cpu in meaning time and see what is the improvement.

I got today 750w G2 EVGA PSU so I should be good hopefully. Other then that I have ddr4 2133mhz 8gb for now.

Basically recommend me all benchmarks, for scores and what games to test on with integrated gpu..

If possible :/ I'm kinda inpatient. Thanks.

superninja12 · Apr 1, 2016

go for it , im sure u can hit 4.2 ghz without any problems.

snowctrl · Apr 1, 2016

In my experience video encoding is a really good test of system stability - if anything is gonna show up the need to adjust an overclock it will be some transcoding

Just make sure you don't subject your CPU to to much vCore - this is the golden rule of OCing

Andrei-Florin Gogan · Apr 1, 2016

You have a high quality power supply so no worries there. With the overclocking.......you can pretty much use the auto overclocking from Asus BIOS. It's only worth doing it manually when you are trying to push the chip to it's limits. In any other situation, auto overclocking using BIOS features, will do the job pretty well.

dsr07mm · Apr 1, 2016

snowctrl :

Andrei-Florin Gogan :

I would try without increasing voltage too much to get 4.2. I assume that is possible.

Andrei-Florin Gogan :

To be honest I didn't explore too much through Asus bios I was always MSI user, but I will find guides and try that. I don't intent to increase voltage because I doubt that air cooler can handle that.

I just need some suggestion for example aside from Passmark, something more related to gaming to test cpu on base clock and after overclocking. What is best way to test this with integrated gpu because once when I get to max overclock I don't have intentions to play more in bios and I can't wait 8 days for gpu, you guys understand that I assume haha

Lets put example, if I can run CSGO (cpu intensive game) at 30fps with integrated gpu everything on low to force CPU, and I see 10fps improvement (example) is that actually 10fps improvement even when I install gpu ? Or it's not accurate to do these kind of tests without having actual gpu in system ?

Andrei-Florin Gogan · Apr 1, 2016

dsr07mm :

snowctrl :

Andrei-Florin Gogan :

I would try without increasing voltage too much to get 4.2. I assume that is possible.

Andrei-Florin Gogan :

To be honest I didn't explore too much through Asus bios I was always MSI user, but I will find guides and try that. I don't intent to increase voltage because I doubt that air cooler can handle that.

I just need some suggestion for example aside from Passmark, something more related to gaming to test cpu on base clock and after overclocking. What is best way to test this with integrated gpu because once when I get to max overclock I don't have intentions to play more in bios and I can't wait 8 days for gpu, you guys understand that I assume haha

Lets put example, if I can run CSGO (cpu intensive game) at 30fps with integrated gpu everything on low to force CPU, and I see 10fps improvement (example) is that actually 10fps improvement even when I install gpu ? Or it's not accurate to do these kind of tests without having actual gpu in system ?

You will definitely see improvement in CS:GO if you play through integrated graphics, but do not expect miracles especially if playing on 1080p. You are also right that having a dedicated GPU is massive compared to Intel's integrated graphics. CS:GO is cpu " intensive" meaning is using the CPU more but not more than a GPU.

dsr07mm · Apr 1, 2016

Andrei-Florin Gogan :

dsr07mm :

You will definitely see improvement in CS:GO if you play through integrated graphics, but do not expect miracles especially if playing on 1080p. You are also right that having a dedicated GPU is massive compared to Intel's integrated graphics. CS:GO is cpu " intensive" meaning is using the CPU more but not more than a GPU.

I understand that. For example on my i7 4770k I did not notice improvement from 3.5 (3.9 turbo) to 4.2. I don't expect huge improvement here neither but I wanna see some numbers increased atleast

Any other games recommended for this kind of test ?

Andrei-Florin Gogan · Apr 1, 2016

The improvement you see in CS:GO can give you a pretty valid answer to your question and you will not get a different result with a different game.

dsr07mm · Apr 1, 2016

OK then I will run passmark and csgo with bots since in that case CPU is even more used and I will test with highest achieved stable oc on stock voltage. I want that PC to be cool and not provide too much heat.

dsr07mm · Apr 1, 2016

Dunno I can't say much. I did AI Tweaker and set All Sync to 44, it works on 3500 but in cpu-z is showing 4400 all the time. In Passmark from 8180 I jumped to 9050 score. In Tomb Raider 2013 / CSGO with multiple runs and scenarios I'm getting identical mix/max/avg fps.

I started Prime95 just for the sake of making sure but first temp was 75 and it was increasing through 2-3 minutes to 77c. So I closed that, h264 encoding is completely fine. I guess overclock is succesful but for performance I will need to wait GPU.

Hopefully overclocking through AI Tweaker is fine

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