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My 3750k, can ne1 guide me through the oc process please?

gav_the_chav

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I have the following components....

Asus p8z77 lx
Sapphire hd6950
8 gig corsair vengeance cl9
Corsair tx750 psu
Corsair h80

I am noob to overclocking but I have got battlefield 3 on order, can you as well as help me with overclocking to about 4 gig advise me what stability program I will need to test stability.

Thanks

Wrong section sorry, any chance a mod cam move pretty please, I do apologise.
 
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A couple of good stressing software:

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

IntelBurnTest: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...-IntelBurnTest-The-new-stress-testing-program

Should easily get 4ghz on stock volts. Go into BIOS, turn off turbo boost, then up the CPU multiplier until you get 4ghz. Save, go back into Windows, then run the stress software. Not used IntelBurnTest but with Prime I usually let it run for about 30 mins before I try a higher overclock. If Prime crashes, up the voltage, or lower the multiplier. Keep doing this until you find something you're happy with, then run Prime for about 8 hours to ensure the overclock is fully stable.
 
As Orcvader says, these chips are easy to overclock, especially for something as low as 4 GHz. You might even be ablee to reduce the core voltage from the stock. Some chips will hit 4.5 GHz with core voltage set to auto (no guarantee on that, of course). My 2700K is currently running at 4 GHz 24/7 with the voltage sete to 1.18V (compared to a stock voltagee of 1.32 at that speed). And it's heavily stressed, coz it's a full-time folding machine.

For stress testing, I use IBT, as it can find faults faster than Prime95. Prime95 is my stress-tester for AMD platforms :)
 
Orcvader said:
A couple of good stressing software:

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

IntelBurnTest: http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums...-IntelBurnTest-The-new-stress-testing-program

Should easily get 4ghz on stock volts. Go into BIOS, turn off turbo boost, then up the CPU multiplier until you get 4ghz. Save, go back into Windows, then run the stress software. Not used IntelBurnTest but with Prime I usually let it run for about 30 mins before I try a higher overclock. If Prime crashes, up the voltage, or lower the multiplier. Keep doing this until you find something you're happy with, then run Prime for about 8 hours to ensure the overclock is fully stable.
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Not entirely true on some Asus boards.
My cousin bought the same board, but for a 2500k and its the same as mine where you cant disable turbo and overclock.
Asus must think of the overclock as a sort of turbo mode.
 
That's a fair point. It's the same for my Gigabyte board as well :p. My overclock is pretty much the "turbo". Hardly goes to stock speeds though and shoots straight to 4.4 :).
 
They do think of it as exactly that. As the OS kicks in whatever Turbo Multipler is set then Kicks in. prior to handover to OS the CPU is at stock multi.

This theoretically helps with cold boot issues.
 
Thank-you all very much for all your input.

Can I have my CPU at a lower speed and then jump up to higher ghz only when necassary? Or will this be already the case, I think it's called offset mode? As I don't want to draw the power except when gaming.

I apologise in advance if this is already the case.
 
gav_the_chav said:
Thank-you all very much for all your input.

Can I have my CPU at a lower speed and then jump up to higher ghz only when necassary? Or will this be already the case, I think it's called offset mode? As I don't want to draw the power except when gaming.

I apologise in advance if this is already the case.
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That's basically what Intel SpeedStep is. It's a power saving feature which downlocks the CPU to 1.6ghz (or whatever idle IB speeds are) and clocks it back up to full when needed. I also notice my CPU going into other speeds such as 2.7ghz depending on the load.
 
Well I've had a think, and I don't think you will all be with me but I think I will try the overclock using asus ai suite 2.

I will try the extreme option as Apposed to fast.

Can anyone tell me, In case anything doesn't work out the easiest way to reset the bios? I have set a profile in turbo v evo but I'm not sure if it is the correct way to original bios.
 
If you're overclocking via software it will do nothing to the BIOS (unless the software can directly change the BIOS). So if you mess up the software overclock, you will need to enter the PC in safemode and try to fix it from there.
 
uh okay. I definatly don't fancy that. Lol

I think you mentioned turning turbo off and incresing the multi till I get to 4 Ghz.

When I turn off turbo mode in the BIOS do I also switch off the other states? There's 4 of them I cannot recall there name's like c6 I think etc etc.
 
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