Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming G1 Motherboard Review

Overclocking
You can overclock on the Z170X-Gaming G1 a few different ways. The first is using the EasyTune software. You can just click on OC to boost your system up to 4.4 GHz.

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There is also an Auto Tuning feature. We gave that a whirl and it gave us a 12% or 4.5 GHz overclock.

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If you want to venture into the BIOS there are also instant overclock settings there. If you find the CPU upgrade section it will give you instant overclocks from 4.2 – 4.6 GHz.

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Finally of course you can fine-tune things manually in the BIOS yourself. Using the same process we did with Haswell we were able to bring our Core i7-6700K up from 4.0 GHz to 4.7 GHz. This was achieved by simply setting the multiplier to 47 and changing our CPU core voltage to 1.38V. This is a 100% stable overclock as it passed all of our benchmark tests as well as a stress and temperature test.

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