■ Step 2: Start Prime95 and look at “CPU Load” in the Hwinfo64 app. If one of your cores is
not at 100%, your system gets the blue screen of death or just freezes, that means your settings
were too aggressive and your CPU has failed the stability test. We normally test for 1 hour. You can
keep it running overnight for increased assurance.
■ Step 3a (If Prime95 Fails): Close Prime95 by right clicking the Prime95 icon on the
tray bar in the lower right side of your screen and selecting “Exit”. This closes Prime95.
■ Step 3b (If Prime95 Fails): Now it’s time to adjust your frequency or voltage
settings. You can do this either through the BIOS or using EasyTune which is available through the
GIGABYTE App Center. You have two options: Either increase CPU Vcore or decrease CPU Clock
Ratio. We recommend you to keep CPU Vcore below 1.4 volts if possible. After making an
adjustment, go back to Step 1. If it continues to fail, dial down your CPU Clock Ratio until you pass
stability testing.
■ Step 3C (If Prime95 Fails): If you aren’t stable at 5.2GHz on Prime95 you can try
setting AVX offset to “2”. This will lower your CPU multiplier by 2x when running AVX instruction
sets. For instance if your CPU is set go 5.2GHz it will run at 5GHz during Prime95. Although, since
we are not running AVX instructions we simply need to reduce the CPU multiplier.
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