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LLC Gaming M5

Efanel
By Efanel
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Hey, 

 

So I have a MSI Z170A Gaming M5 and somebody here suggested me to enable LLC to get better overclocking results and it turns out my motherboard doesn't support that feature, does anybody knows of anyway to try to compensate for vDroop on this motherboard?

 

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I'd say don't worry about it. Judging by your motherboard manual there's no real mention of any Load Line Calibration options at all, just CPU voltage tweaking and related settings. 

 

I've honestly never seen a huge bonus from using LLC since the Core 2 days when it was a real handy feature to have. vDroop isn't as big an issue as it was before with the way motherboards can handle things now.

 

TLDR: Don't worry about it.

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