cpu reducing overclock

[Thewhitepanther]

hi I'm wanting to reduce the overclock on my cou back to the normal level as I have been experiencing slight temperature problems and this is the easiest option by a long way how easy is it to reduce the overclock and can someone let me know how my current cpu is a i5 overclocked to 4.6ghz

 

[king3pj]

Did you do the overclock in the BIOS? If so you can either reset the BIOS to default settings or manually change the multiplier from 46 back to the stock multiplier for your particular CPU.

The stock multiplier is different depending on which model i5 you have so I can't tell you what it is. If your i5 is 3.5GHz at stock the stock multiplier would be 35 but not all i5's are 3.5GHz at stock.

If you did your overclock in software someone else would probably have to help you. I am assuming that most software overclocking programs have a "reset to default" option but I don't have much experience with those.

 

[Thewhitepanther]

the company I bought my pc from already oc it would it be best to ask them how they overclocked it

 

[king3pj]

the company I bought my pc from already oc it would it be best to ask them how they overclocked it

They most likely did the overclock in the BIOS since that is the preferred method. The way you enter BIOS differs depending on which motherboard you have. On my Gigabyte brand motherboard you hit the delete key while the computer is booting up. I usually just keep tapping it rapidly after I push the power button until I see my BIOS menu. If you boot all the way into Windows you either didn't time it right or your motherboard has a different key for entering BIOS.

Once you are in the BIOS you want to look for the CPU core multiplier options. If you are currently overclocked to 4.6Ghz your current multiplier would be 46. You would want to switch this setting to auto. You would also want to set your VCORE to auto since they likely increased that from stock to get a steady overclock. The way this is done varies by motherboard so I can't really get more specific than that.

Before you make these changes though, you never really explained what kind of temperature problems you are experiencing. What are your temperatures under load? You can run a free program called HWInfo to see these numbers. Are you experiencing thermal throttling or crashing while gaming?

We want to be sure you actually have a temperature problem before you remove the overclock, especially if you aren't confident in your ability to remove it.

 

[Thewhitepanther]

the cpu max under load after gaming is 75c

 

[king3pj]

That is a little high but not outrageous. If you are interested in keeping some overclock I would reduce the core multiplier to 44 or 45. That would make your overclock 4.4GHz or 4.5Ghz respectively. You would also want to reduce your Vcore voltage.

I typically start at 1.20V and increase in 0.05V increments until I don't get any blue screen of death crashes in a stress testing program like Intel Burn Test. Lowering your multiplier to 44 or 45 and decreasing your Vcore should lower your temperature quite a bit depending on which CPU cooler you have.

If you don't want to deal with any of that just set the core multiplier and Vcore to auto like I said earlier. That should take you back to stock settings.

It's also possible that they disabled turbo boost when they did your overclock. You might want to turn that back on if you end up going back to stock speeds.

 

[lodders]

Agree with King3pj
Suggest you go into bios.
Reduce Vcore by 0.04V
Reduce speed multiplier from 46 to 45
Temperature problem will be solved, and you still have a really really fast PC

 

[Thewhitepanther]

thanks a lot guys saved me a lot of hassle