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After getting my Noctua NH-D15, I want to dip my toe in the water and try out a little overclocking. Not necessarily to stay there, but to find the limit of my chip so I can save that BIOS and use it for when I need it (I don't need it at the moment, so why dump the extra heat in my room?).

I know AIDA64 is a good tool for this, but it's not exactly cheap. Would I be able to get away with downloading CPU-Z and Prime95?

Also, any tips for overclocking?

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After getting my Noctua NH-D15, I want to dip my toe in the water and try out a little overclocking. Not necessarily to stay there, but to find the limit of my chip so I can save that BIOS and use it for when I need it (I don't need it at the moment, so why dump the extra heat in my room?).

I know AIDA64 is a good tool for this, but it's not exactly cheap. Would I be able to get away with downloading CPU-Z and Prime95?

Also, any tips for overclocking?

Your motherboard should have pretty great software for that.

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Go into bios and overclock. Your mobo has everything needed for this. Use Prime95 or maybe even Cinebench

 

 

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Go into bios and overclock. Your mobo has everything needed for this. Use Prime95 or maybe even Cinebench

I had meant to use Prime95 to stress the CPU and CPU-Z to monitor it.

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Parvulus V1.0

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After getting my Noctua NH-D15, I want to dip my toe in the water and try out a little overclocking. Not necessarily to stay there, but to find the limit of my chip so I can save that BIOS and use it for when I need it (I don't need it at the moment, so why dump the extra heat in my room?).

I know AIDA64 is a good tool for this, but it's not exactly cheap. Would I be able to get away with downloading CPU-Z and Prime95?

Also, any tips for overclocking?

Well option one your BIOS option 2 I'm pretty sure Intel has an OC panel.

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