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Overclocking Intel Processors

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.

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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.

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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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Intel® Extreme Memory Profile

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 Intel® Core™ Ultra 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

Processor Graphics

Intel® Core™ Ultra 9 Processor 285K

24 (8 + 16)

24

36MB

125W

250W

Up to 5.5 GHz

Intel® Graphics

Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 Processor 265K

20 (8 + 12)

20

30MB

125W

250W

Up to 5.4 GHz

Intel® Graphics

Intel® Core™ Ultra 7 Processor 265KF

20 (8 + 12)

20

30MB

125W

250W

Up to 5.4 GHz

n/a

Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 Processor 245K

14 (6 + 8)

14

24MB

125W

159W

Up to 5.2 GHz

Intel® Graphics

Intel® Core™ Ultra 5 Processor 245KF

14 (6 + 8)

14

24MB

125W

159W

Up to 5.2 GHz

n/a

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Compare Unlocked Intel® Core™ (14th Gen) 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

Processor Graphics

Intel® Core™ i9 Processor 14900K

24 (8 + 16)

32

36MB

125W

253W

Up to 5.6 GHz

Intel® UHD Graphics 770

Intel® Core™ i9 Processor 14900KF

24 (8 + 16)

32

36MB

125W

253W

Up to 5.6 GHz

 
Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 14700K

20 (8 + 12)

28

33MB

125W

253W

Up to 5.5 GHz

Intel® UHD Graphics 770

Intel® Core™ i7 Processor 14700KF

20 (8 + 12)

28

33MB

125W

253W

Up to 5.5 GHz

 
Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 14600K 14 (6 + 8) 20 24MB 125W 181W Up to 5.3 GHz

Intel® UHD Graphics 770

Intel® Core™ i5 Processor 14600KF

14 (6 + 8)

20

24MB

125W

181W

Up to 5.3 GHz

 

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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.

2

Performance 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 Generation Intel® Core™ i5 Processors and lower) do not have performance hybrid architecture, only P-cores.

3

Intel® Thread Director: Built into the hardware, Intel® Thread Director is provided only in performance hybrid architecture configurations of 12th Gen or newer Intel® Core™ processors; OS enablement is required. Available features and functionality vary by OS.

4

Max 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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