Recent content by blakeus

Tha ks Thanks, I ended up just resetting Windows and now everything behaving normally. I managed to get 4.8ghz at 1.18 voltage so pretty happy with that and the temp.

No it isn't performing by default. I've had this CPU for years now and it sits at 3.6 when idle and boosts up when required. It is now set static to whatever Intel says. I know that Intel XT changes windows registry settings and so looks like I have to reinstall windows 10.

Hi everyone, I have a 9700k CPU and was having issues with overclocking about 6 months ago. BIOS tuning wasn't doing much of anything. Someone had said to try Intel Extreme Tuning just to test (yes I know it is for laptops and I shouldn't use it for desktops). Anyway I forgot about it and gave...

I run a 2600k oc'd to 4.4ghz with a GTX 1080 and 16GB of paired DDR3 RAM. This game is the first game I haven't been able to max out the graphics at. I still seem to be getting higher FPS than some others with latest gen CPU though. I get about 50 to 70fps at 1440p with mostly high settings...