Hi guys, first post here on Tom's Hardware.
I replaced my Asus GeForce 670 with a Asus 1060 6GB OC on black friday, and since I'm noticing games as The Witcher 3 and Battlefield 1 is pretty CPU-dependent, I want to eliminate the bottleneck (which is my CPU) so that I can make sure my new GPU is flexing it's muscles. I'm using MSI Afterburner so that I can see what gets to 100% load first, and it's almost always my CPU.
So, I'm an amateur when it comes to overclocking, and since I've invested in some good Noctua cooling fans - both for my chassis and my CPU - I thought it wouldn't be too much to ask to get a "small" overclock to about 4.2 or 4.3 GHz.
I've read some guides, and I'm using Prime95 for torture-testing, Core Temp for monitoring my temperatures and CPU-Z to monitor Vcore. My problem is this: when I set a fixed Vcore voltage in my BIOS, it's not what my CPU gets under 100% load in CPU-Z. What I've done is this:
* Disabled the Turbo-function
* Set the clock ratio to 42
* Set LLC to Extreme (highest option)
* Set Vcore to 1.195 V
When I run Prime95 on "Small FFTs" CPU-Z is showing a Vcore of 1.224 V. Why? I can't overclock knowing Vcore isn't what I set in BIOS. What do you guys think? I'm new to overclocking so it isn't impossible that I've forgotten or missed something.
My system:
* Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Motherboard
* Intel i5 3570K 3.40 GHz
* Asus GeForce 1060 6GB DUAL OC
* 4x Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHZ CL9 (16 GB tot)
* Windows 10
Thanks in advance
I replaced my Asus GeForce 670 with a Asus 1060 6GB OC on black friday, and since I'm noticing games as The Witcher 3 and Battlefield 1 is pretty CPU-dependent, I want to eliminate the bottleneck (which is my CPU) so that I can make sure my new GPU is flexing it's muscles. I'm using MSI Afterburner so that I can see what gets to 100% load first, and it's almost always my CPU.
So, I'm an amateur when it comes to overclocking, and since I've invested in some good Noctua cooling fans - both for my chassis and my CPU - I thought it wouldn't be too much to ask to get a "small" overclock to about 4.2 or 4.3 GHz.
I've read some guides, and I'm using Prime95 for torture-testing, Core Temp for monitoring my temperatures and CPU-Z to monitor Vcore. My problem is this: when I set a fixed Vcore voltage in my BIOS, it's not what my CPU gets under 100% load in CPU-Z. What I've done is this:
* Disabled the Turbo-function
* Set the clock ratio to 42
* Set LLC to Extreme (highest option)
* Set Vcore to 1.195 V
When I run Prime95 on "Small FFTs" CPU-Z is showing a Vcore of 1.224 V. Why? I can't overclock knowing Vcore isn't what I set in BIOS. What do you guys think? I'm new to overclocking so it isn't impossible that I've forgotten or missed something.
My system:
* Gigabyte GA-Z77X-D3H Motherboard
* Intel i5 3570K 3.40 GHz
* Asus GeForce 1060 6GB DUAL OC
* 4x Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 MHZ CL9 (16 GB tot)
* Windows 10
Thanks in advance