Z170 Deluxe Help

Taylor Dettling · November 19, 2016

I am working on a build with a 6700K and a Z170 Deluxe and I have a few questions regarding the motherboard. First off I have a Corsair H115i to cool the 6700K and I want to get the maximum performance with OCing. There is a TPU switch thing that is default disabled but it has a air cooling and a water cooling setting. I want to do a manual overclock so should I set it to the disabled or the watercooled setting? Also it has the EPU and I would be cool to save power but if I do this will it limit the performance or will the performance be the same? Also Should I have the radiator fans controlled with the H115i's software or the motherboard? I also have a 3200 mhz kit of 16 gb ram and I want to get the most out of that so should i turn on the EZ XMP switch on or off? And there is a jumper that is off by default that says CPU overvoltage jumper. I want to do the OC my self including the voltage so should i move the jumper to the on position? Is it for like auto overvolt or just enabling overvolting in general? Also for the SATA drives it has one that says OS on this drive is it the top or bottom or both that they reccomend having the OS drive on?

Thanks,

Taylor

mark_cameron · November 19, 2016

I am using a H110i on a Asus X99 Deluxe 3.1.

I have two corsair commander mini's controling a lot of fans all over the Corsair 900D case.

I was fiddling round with Asus Suite 3 today on this topic.

Found that the fan software pretty much stopped my pump working (hit 94 degrees Celsius CPU temp on my i7 5830k before I sorted it and back down to the 35 degrees idle normal temps).

If you start using two pieces of software (one for the H115i) and one for the motherboard fans - make sure to go into the BIOS and switch off the fan control or monitoring of the H115i or CPU fan in the BIOS.

As they will conflict.

I'm using Corsair link for my commander controlled fans and H110i.

I have a single rear case fan on the Motherboard at the moment, I am using Asus Suite to control that. The CPU fan/H110i is only to be controlled by one piece of software.

I advise you to ensure you try to make sure that you don't get software conflicting with each other and especially on the CPU fan/pump.

mark_cameron · November 19, 2016

15 minutes ago, Taylor Dettling said:

I am working on a build with a 6700K and a Z170 Deluxe and I have a few questions regarding the motherboard. First off I have a Corsair H115i to cool the 6700K and I want to get the maximum performance with OCing. There is a TPU switch thing that is default disabled but it has a air cooling and a water cooling setting. I want to do a manual overclock so should I set it to the disabled or the watercooled setting? Also it has the EPU and I would be cool to save power but if I do this will it limit the performance or will the performance be the same? Also Should I have the radiator fans controlled with the H115i's software or the motherboard? I also have a 3200 mhz kit of 16 gb ram and I want to get the most out of that so should i turn on the EZ XMP switch on or off? And there is a jumper that is off by default that says CPU overvoltage jumper. I want to do the OC my self including the voltage so should i move the jumper to the on position? Is it for like auto overvolt or just enabling overvolting in general? Also for the SATA drives it has one that says OS on this drive is it the top or bottom or both that they reccomend having the OS drive on?

Thanks,

Taylor

I would also advise doing plenty of reading about OCing before going into it.

My experience with Asus boards - you don't need to touch any jumpers before OCing. You can do it immediately.

Make sure you read around the subject before doing so and check out other people's 6700k OC profiles before ramping up the voltage and multipliers.

Research research research.