Been reading up on BCLK'ing my i3 6100, I've never overclocked anything before, and I don't want to mess anything up.

Is it worth doing?
Is it hard on the processor?
Does it shorten the life of the processor? (Will be upgrading eventually anyway)
What kind of performance boost am I looking at?
What % OC would be considered "safe"?

Always post a Speccy screenshot...so the folks here will know exactly what gear you have.

Yes it's worth doing.
Anything is technically hard on your processor.
Yes if you're over volting the hell out of it.
10-15%
Just dont go past 1.4 vcore.


To answer your question frank.

Start at a base voltage of 1.275 or around that range and keep going up until unstable via stress testing.

Is that the only thing you change is voltage?
I'm reading that I need to roll my BIOS back to a previous date to allow me to do it?

No

Change the core frequency (easiest way of overclocking for a noob) and the voltage.

Or if you want more advanced change the multiplier (this will change ram speed)

This post was edited by Z97 on Aug 19 2016 04:32pm

he may have to depending on the mobo.

it's a z170 tho unless msi rolled out a bios to stop it on that board???

its totally unlikely but maybe the new bios is jenky idk.
I have had issue like this before but its hella rare.

Yeah well FUCK IT.

Start with with I stated a few posts ago and start trying.

I'd try for 4.3-4.4 at 1.275 volts to start off

I think he can only change the Bclck...the frequency. He can't change the multi on the 6100, I don't think.