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I have an MSI Z170A Gaming Pro motherboard with a Realtek audio chip. I have been experiencing a strange problem with the onboard audio for the past week or so. I usually connect my speakers to the rear jack - Occasionally, the volume goes down by a lot, and the sound becomes muffled. When this...

Gotcha. That makes sense. I honestly don't mind, because all of the benchmarks resulted in higher scores so there's definitely some on demand overclock going on. How would a fixed voltage affect the long term operation of the CPU? To me really, 4.2 to 4.4 GHz is a decent enough overclock , I am...

Here are my current BIOS settings if it helps. http://m.imgur.com/P5uR3KN,ixTD3tQ EDIT: core voltage drops to 1.248 when Prime95 is running as measured by HWINFO. Speeds go up to 4.4 during normal usage. I ran Fire strike (not really a "stress" test) and the speeds reached 4.4 and the...

At 3.7 GHz which seems to be the sweet spot for Prime95, my current temperatures on all four cores are around 65-70 deg C: so I thought it would definitely have more room to increase the clocks. And Cinebench for example has no issues taking it up to 4.4.

Thanks, that's a great guide. Currently I'm able to hit 4.4 GHz at 1.32 V. Perhaps 4.5 needs more than 1.35.. Also, when I'm running Prime95 on this overclocked cpu, the frequencies stay at 3.6 to 3.7 GHz most of the time.. How realistic of a stress test is it then?

Hi, my PC has an i5-6600K, Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, 2133 MHz DDR4 8 GB RAM and an MSI Z170A Gaming Pro MB and an R9 390 GPU. Before attempting overclocking, Prime 95, Intel Burn test, Furmark and Memtest were all stable. Here's what I tried during overclocking: 1. Increase Vcore to 1.275...

No, mine is on stock clocks :that's probably why my physics score is a little on the low end ? Thanks for letting me know!

Okay. So could there be another reason for my CPU benchmark scores being lower than what a lot of i5 review articles have listed? Fire Strike physics, PassMark, Cinebench all of them report a lower score on my PC.

I have an i5-6600K (up to 3.9 GHz turbo) on an MSI Z170a Gaming Pro motherboard and a Hyper 212 Evo cooler. The temperatures in Prime95 and intel burn in never exceeded 70 in any core (mostly 63-68 range), but the core frequency never goes beyond 3.6 GHz. When I run Fire Strike physics test, or...

Firestrike results: 3DMark Score 9902 Graphics Score 12272 Physics Score 8077 Combined Score 4696 Graphics Test 158.3 fps Graphics Test 249.19 fps Physics Test 25.64 fps Combined Test 21.84 fps

Hi, I have a new PC build with an i5-6600K and Cooler Master Hyper 212 EVO, MSI Z170A Gaming Pro motherboard, 8 GB DDR4 RAM and a PowerColor AMD Radeon R9 390. Some of my benchmark results are here, I'd appreciate if you could let me know if they're good enough (especially if you have any of the...

Just an update, I finally ordered this configuration: CPU: Intel® Core™ i5-6600K 3.5 GHz Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Evo Case: Phanteks Enthoo Pro M MB: MSI Z170A Gaming Pro ATX w/ Programmable Lighting SSD: 256GB SanDisk Z400S SATA III 6.0Gb/s SSD - 546 MB/S Read & 342MB/s Write HDD: 1TB...