Performance squeeze

[GanjalfTheGreen]

I have an i7 7500 and I'm wondering if there's ANY way to squeeze any kind of extra perfomance out of it. By tweaking power, RAM speed etc. My motherboard is asus z270-p prime

 

EDIT: motherboard

[minibois]

Hey there, welcome to the forum!

 

You might want to recheck what parts you have exactly.

You're either talking about the i5 7500 or i7 7700.. Which both would not run on a Z390 board, but rather a 200-series boards (or 100-series).

With any luck, you could possibly see if you could BCLK OC the CPU, but with most current BIOSes that is disabled on Skylake/Kabylake.

[Eigenvektor]

The word you're looking for is "overclocking": How to overclock your CPU

There's no guarantee how much, if any, extra performance you're going to get though.

[Meganter]

10 minutes ago, minibois said:

Hey there, welcome to the forum!

 

You might want to recheck what parts you have exactly.

You're either talking about the i5 7500 or i7 7700.. Which both would not run on a Z390 board, but rather a 200-series boards (or 100-series).

With any luck, you could possibly see if you could BCLK OC the CPU, but with most current BIOSes that is disabled on Skylake/Kabylake.

Also to add more info, if it's a non-k version you can't really OC it.

[GanjalfTheGreen]

10 minutes ago, Eigenvektor said:

The word you're looking for is "overclocking": How to overclock your CPU

There's no guarantee how much, if any, extra performance you're going to get though.

I know, but since it's a locked cpu there's not much to overclock. I'm talking minuscule amounts of things

[Princess Luna]

27 minutes ago, GanjalfTheGreen said:

I have an i7 7500 and I'm wondering if there's ANY way to squeeze any kind of extra perfomance out of it. By tweaking power, RAM speed etc. My motherboard is asus z390-p prime

i7 7500 doesn't exist, if you meant the i5 7500 then we have a problem here since it's not compatible with the Z390 chipset to begin with.

[GanjalfTheGreen]

Just now, Princess Luna said:

i7 7500 doesn't exist, if you meant the i5 7500 then we have a problem here since it's not compatible with the Z390 chipset.

I think I'm wrong with the motherboard. I'm looking for the right one at the moment

[Eigenvektor]

1 minute ago, GanjalfTheGreen said:

I know, but since it's a locked cpu there's not much to overclock. I'm talking minuscule amounts of things

There's not much you can do with a locked CPU. Simply increasing the voltage doesn't do anything (except increase temps). Increasing voltage is done when needed to get a stable overclock, not for the sake of it.

[Princess Luna]

What you can do is disable all power saving features on the BIOS, remove all TDP limitations and then set up your Base Clock to 102.98mhz

 

This will also mess up with your memory though and you might have to manually adjust the timings so be wary of that.

 

Once done that download and install Intel XTU utility and also remove all power limits in there and max out the Turbo Boost duration slider.

 

This is all you can do.

[GanjalfTheGreen]

31 minutes ago, Princess Luna said:

What you can do is disable all power saving features on the BIOS, remove all TDP limitations and then set up your Base Clock to 102.98mhz

 

This will also mess up with your memory though and you might have to manually adjust the timings so be wary of that.

 

Once done that download and install Intel XTU utility and also remove all power limits in there and max out the Turbo Boost duration slider.

 

This is all you can do.

Thanks!

[1van]

7 hours ago, GanjalfTheGreen said:

asus z270-p prime

This is a great way of squeezing some performance out of it.

A used i5-7500 is still expensive, you could CoffeeMod your board, then sell the 7500 and buy a modern 6-core i5 for the money, or even add a bit and buy an i7.