Help overclocking CPU

[mikehull89]

Hi, im new to all of this overclocking lark, although I did build my PC for the purpose.. just nothing I really play or have played has required me to do so - until now (i think)

I have an NVIDIA Gefore GTX 970 4gb DDR5
8GB of Ram
and my processor is an Intel i7-3770k @ 3.50GHz and then after it, it says 3.90gHZ.. I've never done any overclocking myself, so i don't know what the second number quite means.

As a lot of you are probably aware, Fallout 4 comes out within the next two weeks, and according to some of the articles/programmes i've used, my CPU will fall short (i want to run it steadily at 60fps, preferably in high). I bought everything off here around 2 years ago figuring that I would one day have to or be able to do it.. so im just wondering if there are any programmes or anything which make it "easier". When I built my PC I bought it a seperate heatsink+fan and thermal paste etc. so over heating shouldnt be an issue.

I was going to use google.. but that hasn't boded well for me in the past, so I figured I'd ask some people who I can trust as these forums helped me build it in the first place.

Thanks

Mike

 

[lude1962]

3.5 is stock speed 3.9 is turbo
What motherboard?
1st get some baseline figures
Download HWinfo and Asus realbench
run both, use stress test for realbench, what temps are you getting?
2nd read the manual pay attention to section about bios setup and the terms used.