[SOLVED] clocking i5 8600K

[chrisis186]

Hey about clocking my cpu (i5 8600k @ 3.60Ghz)
is my cooler good enough?= Asus + CM cooler Bundle
and my motherboard= Asus PRIME Z370-P, ATX

 

[Rodrigodrt]

I assume you wanna overclock, first off, what kind of cooler are we talking here? what you said there isn't very clear.

Second, basically, you need to check your temps to begin with, use HWMonitor for that, if you can manage a decent overclock with whatever cooler is that one you need to get a new one.

 

[chrisis186]

my CPU temperature is 36c i think it goes up to 50 when i play demanding games

 

[Rodrigodrt]

thats actually very cool, but then again you're probably using stock.

so you wanna overclock but you dont know how to do it?

 

[chrisis186]

yeah i know only a little from watching youtube videos. not sure tho if i ll take the risk

 

[Rodrigodrt]

To get the max out of it you'll need to study a bit, overclock is easier nowadays but while you can get away with an average oc just messing with the CPU multiplier/ratio and some vcore, some other stuff helps with going further.

regardless, you can right off the bat set your Vcore on bios to 1.35v and start raising the cpu ratio multiplier to 40, it should be 36. test that out first.