Is This Correct?

Casterina · 5 Oct 2012 at 10:11

Raise the multiplier to 42 with stock voltage and check temps and run Prime95, and then raise the multiplier till I get BSOD and raise a little bit of voltage?

Leave everything on default?

BuToNz · 5 Oct 2012 at 11:34

What motherboard do you have?

andybird123 · 5 Oct 2012 at 12:13

try this;

http://www.techreaction.net/2011/01/04/3-step-overclocking-guide-–-sandy-bridge-v0-1beta/2/

Casterina · 5 Oct 2012 at 13:39

BuToNz said:
What motherboard do you have?

Gigabyte Z77 D3H motherboard with i5 3570K

Casterina · 5 Oct 2012 at 16:28

This that the correct way of overclocking the CPU?

Danm54 · 5 Oct 2012 at 17:49

Maybe have a read through the overclocking guides at the top of the page?

bainbridge · 6 Oct 2012 at 18:47

I incrementally raise the voltage at stock speed whilst noting the temps under load until things get a bit toasty, this gives me an idea of the voltage I can put into the cpu. Then I start increasing the multiplier, again noting temps under load, until the system becomes unstable. Once this far I have a decent overclock and can continue tweaking the speed upwards whilst testing for longer periods and trying out other adjustments which people on here have posted about.

This might not be the "proper" way to do it but at least it quickly gets me to a stable overclock with minimal bootup failures.