> I think the take away from your specs is that your CPU is running 1.3GHz faster than
> mine. I don't believe there is a significant IPC gain from Haswell to Skylake, so I'd
> say That I need to get somewhere close to 4GHz to reach a solid 100%.
>
> Will have to check if my BIOS still supports OC'ing as Intel pushed manufacturers to
> kill OC'ing in non K CPUs. Even if it's possible, Intel may push a microcode update
> through Windows Update at some point and spoil the fun. Never ventured into OC'ing
> before, so new territory for me. Definitely have the thermal headroom to play with.
I haven't done it, but I think people have been downgrading to old bios for overclocking the non-k processors. I know for my mobo, the changelog for the bios doesn't show that any major issues were fixed so I wouldn't really have lost anything if I had to do that. Maybe you can do the same if necessary.
I'm sure you do have the thermal headroom. I did a night of f@h and a night of video encoding as well as compiling MAME and my processor doesn't go over 60c at 4.4GHz. But I have a pretty good air cooler too. Even so, if you're not aiming for that range or higher (and I'm not sure for the non-k processors will let you do) then you probably don't have much to worry about.
Good luck!
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No slowdown here on my computer. At 100% most of time.
