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Hello guys I have an i5 6400 CPU , z170 msi mother board and a good CPU cooler. Could you recommend me what kind of settings I should use to oc my CPU, because the CPU is slowing my computer.

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You can't overclock non-K processors.

 

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I could be wrong, just found this:

 

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You can't do typical overclocking,because of it's locked multiplier. You could take a look at BCLK over locking though. If that works though, depends on the bios of your board though (when people found out you could do that, Intel started turning that feature off a lot).

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1 minute ago, Swello said:

Hello guys I have an i5 6400 CPU , z170 msi mother board and a good CPU cooler. Could you recommend me what kind of settings I should use to oc my CPU, because the CPU is slowing my computer.

Its a non k cpu so u cant really oc it as far as i know maybe over fsb but its not really worth it and i would not recommend ocing via Fsb 

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2 minutes ago, Swello said:

Hello guys I have an i5 6400 CPU , z170 msi mother board and a good CPU cooler. Could you recommend me what kind of settings I should use to oc my CPU, because the CPU is slowing my computer.

No, it doesn't have the K at the end that indicates it can overclock.

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1 minute ago, Minibois said:

You can't do typical overclocking,because of it's locked multiplier. You could take a look at BCLK over locking though. If that works though, depends on the bios of your board though (when people found out you could do that, Intel started turning that feature off a lot).

I have heard that  BCLK overclocking comes with some issues of it's own. 

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2 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

I have heard that  BCLK overclocking comes with some issues of it's own. 

It doest. You lose monitoring Ng capabilities, have far more stability issues and can end up killing the CPU I'd you go overboard.

 

6 minutes ago, Swello said:

Hello guys I have an i5 6400 CPU , z170 msi mother board and a good CPU cooler. Could you recommend me what kind of settings I should use to oc my CPU, because the CPU is slowing my computer.

You can't OC this CPU. Upgrading to Ryzen is an option or a 7700K if you want to keep the board.

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Yes you can however only through BCLK.

 

Here is a guide:

https://www.techspot.com/review/1108-intel-locked-skylake-cpu-bclk-overclocking/

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11 minutes ago, Brooksie359 said:

I have heard that  BCLK overclocking comes with some issues of it's own. 

Before Skylake Intel used to tie the PCI-e frequency to the base clock meaning that breaking it's stability and making it pretty impossible to use a dedicated GPU was indeed an issue... however Skylake onwards Intel has changed it where base clock only affects CPU and Memory making it pretty safe and sound.

 

At most you'll have to adjust your timings manually on memory since the clocks will increase there as well.

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I have seen a lot of people overclocking this CPU to like 4.1ghz or something.Is the only way to OC my CPU is through blck method? My board can only run 6th generation of the CPU or older. Do you suggest overclocking my CPU? I have GTX 1060 6 GB Asus. 8 GB ddr4 2133mhz Ram. 650w PSU. 120 GB SSD and 1TB of HDD

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6 minutes ago, Swello said:

I have seen a lot of people overclocking this CPU to like 4.1ghz or something.Is the only way to OC my CPU is through blck method? My board can only run 6th generation of the CPU or older. Do you suggest overclocking my CPU? I have GTX 1060 6 GB Asus. 8 GB ddr4 2133mhz Ram. 650w PSU. 120 GB SSD and 1TB of HDD

Actually you can run 7th Gen on that board. Just snag a 7700k and you'll be all set. 

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59 minutes ago, lostboy said:

Actually you can run 7th Gen on that board. Just snag a 7700k and you'll be all set. 

$200-300 for an old i7-7700k vs $280-300 for a B450+R5 3600......I know which I'd pick

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I don't want to buy anything I don't have money atm. Saving for something else. I stream and record on OBS pc is doing job fine but sometimes it gets too lagy. I feel like I need to upgrade my ram to 16 GB and OC my CPU because CPU cant go head to head with my GPU

What do I do if I don't want to spend no money except on RAM?

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4 hours ago, Plutosaurus said:

$200-300 for an old i7-7700k vs $280-300 for a B450+R5 3600......I know which I'd pick

Yea that's fair I get it. 

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