Extreme Beginner - info on how to OC i7 970

BazLightyear

BazLightyear

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Hi. I'm after help & advice on the arts of Overclocking. My knowledge of PC hardware is extremely limited indeed & terms like 'BIOS' & 'memory speeds' baffle me completely.
I'm a flight simmer, using an i7 970 processor on an ASUS P6X58D-E motherboard with an nVidia GTX 780.
I've had this setup for a few years & have never attempted the arts of overclocking etc but with the anticipated arrival of the ordered Oculus Rift CV1, I'm thinking I can get away with it no longer.

I basically know that my CPU has 6 cores & 6 further virtual ones (threads is it?) & that currently, they are running at 3.20GHz (I am aiming for between 3.8 & 4.0 if atall possible).

I've made some jpeg screenshots from using speccy, to show all my CPU, RAM, M/board info etc but I can see no way of including jpegs with this post.

Basically I would be so appreciative of some very helpful & easy-to-understand tips of how I go about getting into starting this frightening procedure.

I'm not looking to spend much money as of yet (the OR has wiped me out) & I realise that in time I would perhaps need a better cooler but small steps & all that.
What doesn't help, is looking into the P6X58D-E BIOS, I have to manually input numbers - all very well but there's no numbers from which to work from (everything just says AUTO).

Any help a tall would be so appreciated it really would.
 
Thankyou for your reply - I have ordered an nVidia GeForce GTX 980ti along with a Corsair H60 Water cooling & the HG10 bracket. Will this help me in my pursuit to overclock or is this cooler just primarily aimed at helping to keep the card cool?
 
I would look at overclocking your cpu/ram first and get that down before you start overclocking your gpu, especially as you have a 980ti coming which wont need the overclock at the moment.

While I'm sure an i7-970 probably still wouldn't bottleneck a 980ti it will be the weakest link in your pc. Get that up to speed first.

EDIT: We have a beginners overclocking guide here on ocuk. Probably a good place to start :) https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17612922
 
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dirtybeatfreak said:
I would look at overclocking your cpu/ram first and get that down before you start overclocking your gpu, especially as you have a 980ti coming which wont need the overclock at the moment.

While I'm sure an i7-970 probably still wouldn't bottleneck a 980ti it will be the weakest link in your pc. Get that up to speed first.

EDIT: We have a beginners overclocking guide here on ocuk. Probably a good place to start :) https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17612922
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Thanks for your info & much needed help ...
Yes it's the CPU only that I wish to o/clock & not the new card. Thank you I will certainly take a look at the beginners guide although the one thing that has me baffled, regardless of any guide is my BIOS. It's very new to me & my m/board is an ASUS P6X58D-E & all settings within are [AUTO] & it informs me to input 'manually' & so I have no 'guide point' from which to start from. That's what's been stopping the process for me & hampering the learning of this process.
Is this BIOS notoriously difficult or are they are pretty much the same?
 
They're all quite similar really. What you could do is get your Motherboard install disk if you still have it and install the auto clocking software (iirc its called turbo on asus mobos) and have a play around with that. That may even have the original settings there for you when you load it up so you could install it but not change anything and just record what settings it were at to start with so when you pull the options out of auto in BIOS, you have a starting point. Try not to get too worried about it though, as you would always start low and work to higher speeds in small increments. The method in which you overclock will help with that.

I wouldn't stick with just using the auto clocking software though (unless you test the clock thoroughly) as they are notorious for not being very accurate and doing things like setting voltages too high etc etc.

Good luck mate, hope you have success with it and enjoy the wonders of squeezing that extra power out of your chips :)
 
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