Need guide to overclock i7 on my motherboard

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I need help manually overclocking my i7 2600K, currently its at 4.2 with the OC Genie automatic overclocking with my motherboard, from my sig you can see which board that is and the cooler I have.

I know I should be able to get more than 4.2 ghz out of it with this setup but every time I have tried to go by instructions or a YouTube video online they have different bios with different names for things and it just doesn't work, I always get a memory dump or some sort of crash when I get to the desktop.

So can anyone give me a hand that knows this motherboards bios on how to do it? I'd like to get 4.5 if I can, would be happy with 4.4.

Thanks.
 
I'd start by increasing your multiplier and running IBT [ IntelBurnTest ] until you get to a point where the test fails. You should start to increase your voltage until the test begins to kick start off again. Until you reach the desired overclock or temperature. Make sure to monitor your temperatures and cores at all time you want to aim at keeping your temperatures below 85 Degrees at the most. In a realistic gaming or cpu usage situation it will not be hitting that kind of heat.

Once you hit the desired overclock you need to test for full stability with Prime95 to guarantee you can run your overclock easily over long periods of time.

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?DwnldID=19683

Can't go wrong with this tool for increasing the multiplier and voltage from within windows.


Intel Burn Test
http://www.techspot.com/downloads/4965-intelburntest.html

Prime95
http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

You could also do this in reverse; increasing the voltage until you are at a temperature you are comfortable with; this should be below the intel max by about 5 - 10 degrees because the heat will increase further when you increase the multiplier. Safe temperatures would be 20 degrees below the maximum thermal threshold.
 
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Turning intelspeedstepping usually does the trick at higher clocks. I have been running around 5.2Ghz and I won't be able to run completely stable with it on.

You need too tighten up your load-line calibration, hopefully your motherboard is highly configurable making sure you are increasing anything that gives more power to the cpu and favours overclocking instead of thermal balance.

Increase VCCSA incrementally if you are overclocking RAM or BCLK ( Base clock i.e. 101.0 x 40 [ Multiplier ] = 4040 Mhz )

VCCIO again if you are overclocking ram or BCLK

*** YOUR MOTHERBOARD WILL LIST THE MAXIMUM VOLTAGES YOU SHOULDN'T BE GOING NEAR THOSE ON AIR ***

Also the CPU PLL could do with a bump in voltage if you are planning to overclock to extremely high speed. Increase incrementally to increase overclocking range or stability.

Disable spread spectrum, this could hinder overclocks.

Internal PLL Over Voltage should be on but will affect your computers "sleep" pattern haw haw.

Core voltage can be offset or Fixed I prefer fixed. You mite like your voltage to drop slightly when not at 100% load.

Finally CPU states

OFFSET VOLTAGE MODE:
C1E: Enabled.
C3: Disabled.
C6: Disbaled.
C State Package: Disabled

FIXED VOLTAGE MODE:
C1E: Enabled.
C3: Enabled.
C6: Enabled.
C State Package: Auto

Increase voltages, increase multiplier, run test, if you crash go back to your previous settings, increase voltages more, increase multiplier, run test, rinse repeat, until you get a successful overclock.
 
The only input I can give is that overclocking sometimes takes time to obtain a stable clock It took me about 8 runs of prime after adjusting my bios before getting full stability
 
You want to be increasing voltages and settings to gain full stability then running prime95 for 24 hours once you've got your clocks right. Once you've fully burned in your cpu you can look into reducing the voltages.
 
Well I tried, I still don't get a lot of things, I tried matching what the OCGenie had, 42 ratio and 1.35 core voltage I believe, then upped the ratio to 44, well it didn't give me a memory dump on the desktop at least but after 5-10 minutes of the Intel Burn Test it complained there was an error, same at 43.
 
you should be able to do 4.5ghz

I don't know that board at all though or whether it allows you to use cpu offset voltage?

i like to clock with all the power saving switched on,i don't find it affects stability at all

you need to find what each loadline calibration adds to the overall cpu voltage at load,thats ontop of what offset adds

ideally you want to try and aim for 1.35v cpu voltage at load or thereabouts as each chip requires more/less to be stable

stay below 1.4v and 80c on the cores,stop the testing if it goes above and adjust voltages ect
 
You got some really good kit in your sig so I'm a little bit surprised that you got that particular motherboard. If you'd got an Asus or Gigabyte then these are better supported and you would have got some more relevant advice.

I would back up what Wazza300 said. I would add that if your motherboard has pll voltage then quite a few people have good results lowering it from the default 1.8v to 1.7v-1.6v. Also raising the memory VCCIO (don't know what it is called on you board) to 1.15 to max of 1.20. can help stabilise overclocks while helping to keep the amount of VCore you need for the CPU. I presume your memory by default is also 1.5v not 1.65v,
 
Thanks everyone for posting, appreciate it, I'll post some pics of my bios soon and try and make a list of what's been said as well, and try again shortly, in work tomorrow morning but day off from Monday to have another fiddle.
 
Here's the pics of my bios, its in OC Genie mode but ignore that, it's the same in Standard mode and ignore the Intel Turbo Boost as I'm not sure why that is on as I've checked and it's always at 4.2Ghz.

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Untitled by White Hawk, on Flickr
 
Can't win with this, I tried the settings mentioned here and it doesn't work, firstly it underclocks the CPU to 1.6Ghz on the desktop (don't want that) with EIST (Intel Speed Stepping) off it doesn't allow me to change the Turbo off so I get that, though I think something else in these settings is making that happen too as switching it back on and switching Turbo off it was still at 1.6Ghz.

I've tried up to 1.37 core voltage at 4.4Ghz, it ran Intel Burn Test on Very High for 2 hours fine, but once again running it on Maximum it only lasts about 10 minutes, and far as I've read I shouldn't be that high of a voltage anyway, OC Genie uses 1.35 for 4.2Ghz yet it seems a lot of people get these kinds of speeds with only about 1.30 volts.

I feel like giving up again. :(
 
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