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Are you experiencing issues with your device's performance? It seems like your 9600k might not be reaching 5ghz.

Are you experiencing issues with your device's performance? It seems like your 9600k might not be reaching 5ghz.

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Eusebio06
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08-26-2018, 05:02 AM
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Hello everyone!
As mentioned in the title, reaching 5ghz with my new i5 9600k isn't possible. I'm using an MSI MEG z390 ace board, equipped with 16 GB HyperX Predator RAM (two 8GB modules), and an RTX 2070 graphics card. My CPU is cooled by a Corsair H115i Pro RGB AIO cooler. In the MSI BIOS, I adjusted the voltage to 1.43 override, set the multiplier to 50 and ring ratio to 47. I also configured the thermal settings to mode 3 and the highest temperature limit (around 115 °C). The PC starts up normally, but when I run Cinebench R15 for CPU testing, it crashes halfway through. The temperatures were around 80 °C across all cores.

Isn't that a high temperature for a liquid cooler?
My goal is to achieve stable 5ghz performance while keeping the CPU temperature below 70 °C during gaming.
How can I lower the voltage and heat without sacrificing stability at 5ghz? Maybe using mx2 paste?
What advice do you have?
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Eusebio06
08-26-2018, 05:02 AM #1

Hello everyone!
As mentioned in the title, reaching 5ghz with my new i5 9600k isn't possible. I'm using an MSI MEG z390 ace board, equipped with 16 GB HyperX Predator RAM (two 8GB modules), and an RTX 2070 graphics card. My CPU is cooled by a Corsair H115i Pro RGB AIO cooler. In the MSI BIOS, I adjusted the voltage to 1.43 override, set the multiplier to 50 and ring ratio to 47. I also configured the thermal settings to mode 3 and the highest temperature limit (around 115 °C). The PC starts up normally, but when I run Cinebench R15 for CPU testing, it crashes halfway through. The temperatures were around 80 °C across all cores.

Isn't that a high temperature for a liquid cooler?
My goal is to achieve stable 5ghz performance while keeping the CPU temperature below 70 °C during gaming.
How can I lower the voltage and heat without sacrificing stability at 5ghz? Maybe using mx2 paste?
What advice do you have?

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Jolias055
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08-27-2018, 07:48 AM
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Welcome to Tom's!
I think your thermal paste won't really change much. Every test I've seen only shows a small difference of 2-3 degrees Celsius between the best and worst pastes, assuming everything else is the same.
Getting a specific overclock isn't always possible. If all chips in a certain line could reliably reach 5GHz, Intel would probably market them as 5GHz parts at a much higher price—not 3.5 or 4GHz ones.
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Jolias055
08-27-2018, 07:48 AM #2

Welcome to Tom's!
I think your thermal paste won't really change much. Every test I've seen only shows a small difference of 2-3 degrees Celsius between the best and worst pastes, assuming everything else is the same.
Getting a specific overclock isn't always possible. If all chips in a certain line could reliably reach 5GHz, Intel would probably market them as 5GHz parts at a much higher price—not 3.5 or 4GHz ones.

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