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Overclocking: Maximize Your Performance

Unlocked Intel® Core™ processors let you overclock the CPU for even more gaming power and performance.1

What Is Overclocking?1

Overclocking your unlocked Intel® Core™ processor, RAM, and motherboard is a way to custom tune your PC. You can adjust the power, voltage, core, memory settings, and other key system values for more performance. It helps speed up your components—and your gameplay. It can also help with processor-intensive tasks such as image rendering and transcoding.

Learn how to overclock

Additional Overclocking Guides and Tools

How to Overclock with Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility

Fine-tune and test your overclock from within Windows using Intel® Extreme Tuning Utility (Intel® XTU).

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How to Overclock Your CPU from BIOS

This guide will walk you through benchmarking and modifying settings to monitoring your system.

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How to Overclock RAM

Overclocking is often thought of in the context of a CPU or GPU, but you can also overclock RAM to boost memory speeds and performance of your PC.

See how it's done

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Intel® Speed Optimizer

This new feature enabled within Intel Extreme Tuning Utility is designed to simplify overclocking. Intel ISO changes the P-core and E-core frequency, voltage, and other parameters automatically.

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Check Intel® Extreme Memory Profile Compatibility

Intel® Extreme Memory Profile (Intel® XMP) helps you overclock RAM, including select Intel® technology-based DDR5/DDR4 memory, unlocking performance that exceeds standard specifications.

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Compare Unlocked Desktop Processors

Processor Number

Processor Cores (P+E)2

Processor Threads3

Intel® Smart Cache (L3)

Processor Base Power

Maximum Turbo Power

P-core Max Turbo Frequency4

Max Memory Speed (MT/s)

Processor Graphics

Intel® Core™ i9-13900K Processor

24 (8 + 16)

32

36MB

125W

253W

Up to 5.4 GHz

Up to DDR5 5600

Up to DDR4 3200

Intel® UHD Graphics 770

Intel® Core™ i9-13900KF Processor

24 (8 + 16)

32

36MB

125W

253W

Up to 5.4 GHz

Up to DDR5 5600

Up to DDR4 3200

n/a

Intel® Core™ i7-13700K Processor

16 (8 + 8)

24

30MB

125W

253W

Up to 5.3 GHz

Up to DDR5 5600

Up to DDR4 3200

Intel® UHD Graphics 770

Intel® Core™ i7-13700KF Processor

16 (8 + 8)

24

30MB

125W

253W

Up to 5.3 GHz

Up to DDR5 5600

Up to DDR4 3200

n/a

Intel® Core™ i5-13600K Processor

14 (6 + 8)

20

24MB

125W

181W

Up to 5.1 GHz

Up to DDR5 5600

Up to DDR4 3200

Intel® UHD Graphics 770

Intel® Core™ i5-13600KF Processor

14 (6 + 8)

20

24MB

125W

181W

Up to 5.1 GHz

Up to DDR5 5600

Up to DDR4 3200

n/a

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Compare Unlocked Laptop Processors

Processor Number Processor Cores (P+E)2 Processor Threads3 Intel® Smart Cache (L3) Processor Base Power Maximum Turbo Power P-core Max Turbo Frequency4
Intel® Core™ i9-13980HX Processor 24 (8 + 16) 32 36M 55W 157W Up to 5.6 GHz
Intel® Core™ i9-13900HX Processor 24 (8 + 16) 32 36M 55W 157W Up to 5.4 GHz
Intel® Core™ i9-13900HK Processor 14 (6+8) 20 24M 45W 115W Up to 5.4 GHz
Intel® Core™ i7-13700HX Processor 16 (8 + 8) 24 30W 55W 157W Up to 5.0 GHz
Intel® Core™ i5-13600HX Processor 14 (6 + 8) 14 24W 55W 157W Up to 4.8 GHz
Intel® Core™ i5-13500HX Processor 14 (6 + 8) 14 24W 55W 157W Up to 4.7 GHz
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HP

HP OMEN 40L GT21-0385xt

  • Intel® Core™ i7-12700K Processor (25M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
  • Windows 11 Home Operating System
  • 16 GB DDR4-SDRAM 3733 MHz Memory
  • 512 GB SSD, 1000 GB HDD Storage
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CyberpowerPC

CyberpowerPC Gamer SLC10000CPGV9 PC

  • Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF Processor (25M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
  • Windows 11 Home Operating System
  • 16 GB DDR4-SDRAM Memory
  • 1000 GB SSD Storage
  • Wi-Fi 5 (802.11ac) Wireless
iBuyPower

iBuyPower TRACEMR234I PC

  • Intel® Core™ i7-12700KF Processor (25M Cache, up to 5.00 GHz)
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  • 16 GB DDR4-SDRAM 3200 MHz Memory
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Product and Performance Information

1

No product or component can be absolutely secure.

Altering clock frequency or voltage may damage or reduce the useful life of the processor and other system components, and may reduce system stability and performance. Product warranties may not apply if the processor is operated beyond its specifications. Check with the manufacturers of system and components for additional details.

2Performance hybrid architecture combines two new core microarchitectures, Performance-cores (P-cores) and Efficient-cores (E-cores), on a single processor die. Select 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors (certain 12th Gen Intel Core i5 processors and lower) do not have performance hybrid architecture, only P-cores.
3Built into the hardware, Intel® Thread Director is provided only in performance hybrid architecture configurations of 12th Gen Intel® Core™ processors; OS enablement is required. Available features and functionality vary by OS.
4Max Turbo Frequency represents the highest turbo frequency on the processor, which is aligned to the Performance-cores and is inclusive of Intel® Turbo Boost Max Technology 3.0, where applicable.
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