complete noob looking for overclock

deadpresidents4

deadpresidents4

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Here is my system what should I do

1 x Intel Core i7-4770K 3.50GHz (Haswell) Socket LGA1150 Processor - Retail
2 x MSI HD 7950 Twin Frozr III Boost Edition 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card **NEW REVISION** with FREE GAMES
1 x Gigabyte Z87X-OC Intel Z87 (Socket 1150) DDR3 ATX Motherboard
1 x Samsung 250GB SSD 840 EVO SATA 6Gb/s Basic - (MZ-7TE250BW)
1 x 1TB HD
1 x Samsung Blu ray rewriter
1 x Patriot Viper "Black Mamba" Generation 3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-17000C11 2133MHz Dual Channel Kit (PV38G213C1K)
1 x Thermalright True Spirit 140 BW Cooler
1 x XFX ProSeries (XXX Edition) 850W
1 x Fractal Design ARC Miditower R2 Side Window
1 x 27" 2560 x 1440p IPS screen
 
That linustechtips guide is a good one, there is also tiny tom logans overclocking guide under the OC3d channel that is also pretty damn good and will take you through the steps and explain why it's best to get to know your system rather than taking other people's setting or leaving things on auto or just banging in someone else's settings.
 
deadpresidents4 said:
Say if I want to overclock my gfx cards automatically?

I've had a look at msi afterburner but it involves a lot of fiddling
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overclocking a cpu, done correctly, will take time.

You could just whack in someone else's settings and hope for the best? Less 'fiddling' :eek:
 
Here's how I overclocked my 4670k -

1) Set multiplier to 42, everything else - Auto, run prime95 for 5 mins, all good

2) Set multiplier to 44, everything else - Auto, run prime95 for 5 mins, all good

3) Set multiplier to 45, everything else - Auto, run prime95 for 5 mins, all good

4) Set multiplier to 46, everything else - Auto, run prime95 for 5 mins, all good

5) Set multiplier to 47, everything else - Auto, run prime95 for 5 mins, CRASH

6) Set multiplier to 47, up voltage to 1.35v, run prime95 for 5 mins, all good

7) Set multiplier to 48, leave voltage - 1.35v, run prime95 for 5 mins, CRASH

8) Back down to x47, voltage a touch lower at 1.34v, run prime95 for 5 mins, all good

That was it really. I'm now testing @ 4.7Ghz for day to day use in games and all other things I actually use the PC for. Don't bother with 10 hrs+ of prime95, unnecessary and unrealistic stress on the CPU imo. From my limited experience, if it can handle prime95 for about 10 mins it's good enough, it's the temps you need to keep an eye on. You don't want to be going much above 80C.

Set to 'adaptive' mode, and have speedstep enabled so that the cpu downclocks itself and the volts are also reduced when the cpu power isn't required.

If I find after a week of use my 4.7Ghz is stable, I will move the volts down another notch. My idle temps are in the low 30s, and at load in the 60s (apart from with prime) so I'm not worried about damaging the cpu.
 
Research research and more research mate, as mentioned, it takes time and a whole lot of patience to dial a stable 24oc in properly. One of the best guides is the one mentioned by TTL, he talks you through what is basically underclocking first to find your lowest stable voltage, and work up from there. There are little things like leaving your rams XMP profile of and manually setting your ram's timings and in some cases running it at a lower speed, then once the overclock is stable, then set the ram's rated speed.
 
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