what's going on guys damn with PC tech
hustle coming at you again with another
video today I want to cover with you a
free way to get some performance out of
your locked Intel processor behind me I
have in I five forty six ninety system I
built in AZ 97 platform that I wanted to
show you guys how we can up a little bit
of the performance without actually
doing any overclocking and by not doing
any overclocking I mean we're not doing
any kind of multiplier increases in
voltage up edge because technically we
can so I thought this would be pretty
relevant to cover with you guys as a lot
of people still haven't pulled the
trigger on buying new PC parts and doing
the upgrades and getting the latest and
greatest it's expensive so I thought
this might be a good opportunity to
cover since one I'm a budget builder and
I flipped these types of pcs all the
time and to give you a format to see
maybe how you can squeeze another 10 to
15 frames out of your gaming rig in its
current state so let's get cracking
alrighty guys so real quick before we do
any kind of overclock you want
establishing baselines of performance so
what I'll do here is I'll pop open
Cinebench and typically when you're
doing benchmarks you want to close as
many unnecessary programs as possible
we'll just leave well close this down
MSI and close down steam so really got
nothing really particularly running in
the background so let's give this a
quick run
all right and it is finishing up we got
a score about 542 and again that's just
on all basic stock settings we don't
have anything really run in the
background so we had a 540 to Cinebench
score so keep that mind and next let's
pop open just a fire strike run already
you got 3dmark open now I'm actually
gonna pop open kemacite afterburner as
well only reason I'm doing that is so it
can run my fan profiles that I have
already preset for the video card so
that way it'll apply some decent fan
it's fan speeds to the video card and so
that I have a constant for that and I
don't have anything else that could be
influencing that so let's go down to
just fire strike this isn't a very
powerful system so fire strike sure you
at least you know give us some kind of
basic numbers and ideas on what it will
do here
already we are all finished up with the
benchmark and fire strikes with a total
score of nine thousand five hundred
sixty-nine graphic score of 12 thousand
six seventy four in physics score of six
nine nine one so let's do a reboot of
the system get into BIOS and see what we
can get here and I'll go ahead and shut
down restart and I'll be hitting the
Delete key mashing on that to get
ourselves into BIOS here we go
alrighty guys so we are in BIOS now and
just a quick note - I went ahead and did
all the homework in regards to finding
the highest clock stable so to save you
a lot of blabbering a lot of video that
is pretty redundant I just got to show
you the menus that where I made the
changes so let's go ahead and get into
that so right here we're just in the
main page with all the defaults laid out
you can see my processor is the 4690 z97
killer ass rock board running at 3.5
gigahertz so most boards are going to be
relatively relatively the same as far as
how to navigate to certain particular
items z chipset boards obviously are
going to have a lot more overclocking
features but you want to navigate to on
this particular board the OC Tweaker
there may be something again less I
mentioned depends on your your
manufacturer board but something similar
to this but here I want to do is want to
adjust our CPU ratio first we want to
select that we want to make the the
application changes to all course so
we'll just select that and then once we
do that a new window unlocks with giving
us the ability to set a multiplier so a
35 is the default as that's the base
clock of the processor we're gonna just
hold down the plus key to get the
maximum value that the processor
actually
right so the 39 is 3.9 gigahertz or in
essence the max turbo clock of the
processor I'm not going to mess it with
anything to do with the ratio as you can
see set to auto be CLK frequency is what
we're going to adjust here in just a
moment so again I want to cover a couple
few other things here being the CPU OSI
fixed mode so if your motherboard BIOS
has this option it's really handy and
what it effectively does is it disables
intel speedstep technology and intel
turbo boost technology so without having
to actually select both and just click
disable what we can do this come over
here select this and we want to enable
the cpu OC fixed mode and what that does
is it takes away the feature of as you
just saw where the menus disappeared the
turbo and speed spectrum or I'm sorry
the turbo and let's go back turbo and
speed step sorry
so re-enable that so that way those
options are now disabled you can
effectively do the same thing by coming
to those options and disabling them but
for a quick way to do it or you can just
do this alright so now back up to the BC
LK frequency as I mentioned again I did
the homework for you guys on this just
because there's a lot of guessing than
checking and it would consume a lot of
time and and to be quite frank could be
boring to you guys so BC LK frequency on
all until chips I think going back to
almost gen one I think is the only area
where BC LK frequency can vary but it's
always 100 by default so as you can see
as I just typed in 100 nothing changed
so the auto value is 100 so what we're
going to do here is we're going to apply
a effective quote unquote
over a clock so we're going to just bump
this up and as you can see as I'm doing
that hitting the plus key you can see
that the frequency is increasing on the
CPU and the memory
and as mentioned before I went ahead and
found what I thought it to be the most
relative stable overclock according to
adding more frequency of the BC LK clock
and that being around the 40 25
megahertz on the CPU anything hiring
that I found started to become unstable
and I might have been able to get it
stable but the purpose of this video is
to show you something quick and easy you
can do to get some more effective
performance for absolutely free and of
no major worry to you so once those
settings are pumped in that's literally
all we have to do we're not messing with
voltage we're not messing with DRAM
frequency we're not messing with any of
this stuff like you normally would with
a unlock processor where you can really
take the CPU to a much higher clock
speed so we're gonna hit f10 to save our
settings and apply them and do a reboot
and we will be going into Windows here
in just a second already we are booting
into windows in here we are so one thing
I'd like to do initially when I apply
another clock is just do some
verifications that things are still
operating within Windows so quick easy
way to do that is just come over here to
CPU Z pop that open so as you can see
we're at our maximum clock speed we're
hitting around the 40 25 to 27 all right
so let's close that down we don't really
need that right now so let's pop up in
Cinebench and this is where we're just
gonna give a just a base stability check
to ensure that what we did one took
effect in is not you know unstable so
don't let this run a few times in fact
what I usually do is I let it run about
three four times make sure that the
scores kind of remain within sight of
each other and if I get through all
three four tests then we'll move on to
fire strike which is a lot more
intensive additionally you know I'll
recommend some other Pro
to solidify that you are indeed 100%
stable so circle back on all that here
first run looking pretty good so 584 and
our previous run at stock clock speeds
was a 541 so we increase the the score
pretty good not a massive leap by any
measure but for this processor that's
some free extra performance that we
didn't have so I'm gonna run it a few
more times just to ensure it can get
through Cinebench a few times and then
we'll go over to another quick benchmark
and see how we improved in fire shrink
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alright so there are about three to four
runs and we are looking pretty good I
would like to see this number up over
600 but not bad considering our starting
point was 541 so technically if we take
this last score into consideration we've
up the score by 50 points or about give
her the take around eight to ten percent
so not bad especially considering we
haven't really done a whole lot of
anything so we're gonna close down
Cinebench and see what these scores net
us in fire strike as that's gonna be a
bit more intensive it's gonna it's a
better synthetic benchmark runs longer
all that all that stuff so we're gonna
go ahead and run fire strike just to
ensure stability once and for all and
more the last we're gonna look at it to
see what kind of improvements we've made
with just bumping the clocks there as we
did
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okay we are finished up with fire strike
I know that's a better score but I'm not
absolutely positive how much better so
let's take a look at the before oh wow
yeah check that out so 95 69 to start
and after the BC LK overclock we ended
on 98 56 so graphics scores are within
margin of each other somehow I got a
little bit better of a score this time
but where the big differences is in the
physics score so previously I was
actually even under seven thousand six
thousand nine nine one and now with the
physics score on the new score we're at
seven thousand six seven six so we
bumped up nearly seven hundred points
there on the the graphic started the cpu
score so that's that's fantastic alright
guys so as you can see we made a pretty
significant improvement to our score
there especially in fire our strike
where we got almost 700 extra points on
the physics score raising the score up
quite significantly as mentioned to you
know those two programs are pretty good
feelers for if you're going to be stable
or not but I didn't put the system
completely through all the tests here
just for sake of demonstration on the
video but additionally what you want to
look at doing is put put a heavy stress
on it through other programs like I 264
and run it for several hours I would say
at least the bare minimum of two hours
additionally prime95 I like to use that
that's kind of like a torture test but
definitely is going to show if you're
stable or not but those are the two big
programs that I would use after doing
kind of some of the initial testing of
stability we we know where we can boot
into Windows fine we know we can run
Cinebench fine we know we can get
through synthetic tests fine so put them
through the torture tests and then that
will solidify if what changes we
here in an example of what we just did
is safe and will continue to be stable
all right guys so this pretty much gonna
wrap up this video I hope this was
informative for you guys you are able to
take away something from this I think
it's great for someone who has maybe a
system that's a little bit dated but
aren't ready to commit to spending
thousand plus dollars or more on a new
system and they want to eke out a little
more performance as you can see we we
definitely picked out a good amount and
that will show definitely in your games
that'll show as you saw in in even the
synthetics so before we cut out from
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