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Originally Posted by Hansrutger A friend of mine who helped me with overclocking asked me whether my CPU had that K-label or not and just told me to not do anything about the CPU since it didn't have one. I can't touch anything to do with the CPU in MSI Afterburner anyways but I'm sure there's workarounds like Kaperstone mentioned with his case. Ї\_(ツ)_/Ї

You're right - just because your CPU doesn't have a "k" in it's name doesn't mean it's not overclockable.

The "k" chips are made with overclocking in mind, whereas the non-k chips aren't (theyre meant to run at factory freqs). There are a lot of steps you can perform for safely overclocking a non-k chip, as long as you don't exceed max voltage your only worry should be heat. Doing a delid and or investing in a AIO cooler will do wonders. Reading up past user experiences helps a whole lot too - chances are someone probably tried overclocking it before, like Vince stated.

You should also only OC in the motherboard, not using a software. The motherboard is a safer environment than a third party program, you will probably see your clocks behave very differently if you boot into it through the motherboard instead of applying it through the program.

Also that monitor resolution issue happens frequently for people with dual monitor setups. I'm not too sure why myself but I imagine GeForce Experience frequently uploads/stores presets when updating drivers, even if you don't press optimize.