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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).

More about this tool

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

Overclock with Intel® Performance Maximizer

Learn how to automate your overclock with Intel® Performance Maximizer, the machine-assisted overclocking tool.

Read this guide

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Intel® Performance Maximizer

Automate your overclock with Intel® Performance Maximizer, the machine-assisted overclocking tool that dynamically and reliably tunes to your processor’s individual attributes.2

Learn more about the technology

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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 DDR4 memory, unlocking performance that exceeds standard specifications.

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Processor Number Processor Base Frequency Intel® Single Core Turbo Frequency Cache # of Cores/ # of Threads TDP Memory Types Graphics
Intel® Core™ i9-11900K Processor 3.50 GHz 5.30 GHz 16M 8/16 125W Two channels DDR4-3200 Intel® UHD Graphics 750
Intel® Core™ i7-11700K Processor 3.60 GHz 5.0 GHz 16M 8/16 125W Two channels DDR4-3200

Intel® UHD Graphics 750
Intel® Core™ i5-11600K Processor 3.90 GHz 4.90 GHz 12M 6/12 125W Two channels DDR4-3200

Intel® UHD Graphics 750
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Processor Number Processor Base Frequency Cache # of Cores/ # of Threads TDP Memory Types Graphics
Intel® Core™ i9-10980HK Processor 2.40 GHz 16 MB 8/16 45W Two channels DDR4-2933 Intel® UHD Graphics
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Compare Unlocked High End Desktop Processors

Processor Number Processor Base Frequency Cache # of Cores/ # of Threads TDP Memory Types Graphics
Intel® Core™ i9-10980XE Processor

3.0 GHz

24.75 MB

18/36

165 W

Four channels DDR4-2933

NA

Intel® Core™ i9-10940X Processor

3.3 GHz

19.25 MB

14/28

165 W

Four channels DDR4-2933

NA

Intel® Core™ i9-10920X Processor 3.5 GHz

19.25 MB

12/24

165 W

Four channels DDR4-2933

NA

Intel® Core™ i9-10900X Processor 3.7 GHz

19.25 MB

10/20

165 W

Four channels DDR4-2933

NA

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Product and Performance Information

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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

Some features may only be available with the latest version of Intel® Performance Maximizer. Visit downloadcenter.intel.com to download the latest version. Eligible processors include 9th Gen Intel® Core™ i9-9900K, i9-9900KF, i9-9900KS, i7-9700K, i7-9700KF, i5-9600K, i5-9600KF processors, and Intel® Core™ i9-10980XE Extreme Edition, i9-10940X, i9-10920X, and i9-10900X processors.

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