Intel i7-6700K Overclocking with MSI Z170A Gaming M7

Nicolas11x12 overclocking the Intel Core i7-6700K with the MSI Z170A Gaming M7 Motherboard.

Processor:

Manufacturer: Intel
Model: BX80662I76700K

Full Specifications:

Motherboard:

Manufacturer: MSI
Model: Z170A Gaming M7

Full Specifications:

[dddude]

I tend to disagree with your decision that it hurt your gaming experience. The Max FPS did drop yes, but you would not notice that really. Instead, you min FPS went up by a pretty good margin. This you would notice much more than the slight drop in max fps.

[g.aslifestyle]

It’s this still good in 2021 I just got it yesterday

[BlackhawkHami]

Leaving your voltage on auto is what caused you max FPS drop. Your CPU will fluctuate and can throttle itself when you leave it on. Set it to like 1.33 or something and leave it at that.

[ChronicKPOP]

0:29 Thank MSN.... good shout out :)

[RetroGameDungeon]

Did you see any of the FOS bottle rocking when overclocking the 4790K

[jamdonut]

interesting, i have a similar setup with the msi z170a sli plus, and i also found that it made pretty much no difference to gaming with the latest titles after overclocking to 4.5Ghz

[Oplix]

i dont understand your bf4 benchmark. it says you got 6fps higher minimum at stock than when overclocked to 4.4

[nowestworzenie]

In 2024 BF 4 BF 1 BF5 still good competetive

[rezaxxx]

No point in overclocking, using mine mostly for gaming, surfing and some light video editing but i dont see a huge improvement. Will keep it stock until i get my next pc and then i will OC the hell out of this i7-6700 :D now its fast as hell as it is.

[ValentinMadallin]

Please help. I've tried many settings but unfortunately it seems that the overclocking does not apply! What should I do?

[IR]

Great Video matey!!!
I also have an MSI Z170A - Great video, you have given me confidence to OC my Mobo!! Do you have a video on how to OC the RAM or unset the default as the board is set to 2133Hz and I bought Vengence 3000Hz! Any help be great!!

[FUFUWO]

Do you have to adjust manually the Core Voltage in the BIOS to 1.344V ? Or does the Core Voltage go higher automatically as you OC the CPU??

[davidselby]

Hello, I have the same motherboard and cpu. When I change the cpu voltage is does look like it shows up as the same in cpu-z but all other apps such as aida64 or hwinfo read the voltage as 1.240v and my cpu core vid is read as 1.240v too? I've done some testing and with changing the voltage to what I think is 135v I can get my chip to run stable at 4.5ghz, can't seem to get it any higher with any other voltages at all and I can't seem to even get 4.5ghz working with lower voltages than 1.35v
Either I am getting a stable overclock of 4.5ghz at 1.20v or I have a bad chip and the most I can oc is 4.5ghz at 1.35v, what do you think?

[amdfaildozer]

Can you do 4790K 4.8 ghz vs 6700K 4.6 ghz benchmarks cuz this is the average overclock those cpus can do.

[FUFUWO]

Battlefield 147 at stock and 125 at 4.6 ghz? Huh? Someone enlighten me please.

i got same motherboard and cpu i have a question
1.325v 4.6 ghz is totally stable at gaming or aida64 tests.
but my question is why i never pass tdp watts 85w ? is normal or not ?

[pepsico]

Why are you getting higher fps on the stock 6700k vs the overclocked?

[diegomannina]

sorry, but that guitar solo is?

Thanks :)

[Asgardsjaeger]

i did it like you have shown in the video but in cpu-z under Clocks (Core#0) Core Speed stays at 4000.Ghz?

[ilyasfrimla]

My 6700k voltagw is at stock 1.240 why is yours higher at stock?