Need overclock advice please

Donny84

Donny84

Donny84

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Hi guys,
I'm going to be buying this setup and was wondering how difficult it will be to overclock it. I have absolutely no knowledge of overclocking and not much knowledge of bios etc.
So I guess my question is... Would it be wise for me to attempt it using a walkthrough and what parts should I be looking to overclock and by how much? I don't particularly want to push it to its limits. Maybe a decent 50ish percent of it limits.

This is the system I've been advised to get be your guys over in the general hardware forum:

YOUR BASKET
1 x Gigabyte ATi Radeon HD 7950 Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card with Crysis 3 & Bioshock PC Games £239.99
1 x Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W) - OEM £187.99
1 x Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £112.99
1 x Plextor M5 Pro 128GB Extreme Series Solid State Drive - (PX-128M5P) £99.95
1 x XFX Pro Series 750W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Bronze' Power Supply £84.98
1 x Toshiba (7K1000.D) 1TB SATA 6GB/s 32MB Cache - OEM (DT01ACA100) HDD £59.99
1 x Corsair Carbide 200R Compact ATX Case - Black £49.99
1 x Corsair Vengeance Low Profile 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CML8GX3M2A1600C9) £41.99
1 x Alpenföhn Matterhorn Pure Edition CPU Cooler (Socket 775 / 1155 / 1156 / 1366 / AM2 / AM2+ / AM3 / FM1 / FM2) £29.99
Total : £921.36

Any help is appreciated :)
 
I have the same processor and Motherboard. it's very very simple to overclock. get a bit more trial and error when you get past 4.2Ghz having to adjust vcore and test while keeping temperatues down.

Mines sat at 4.4 at the moment but i'm looking at getting a better cooler and some fans with a controller to keep noise down when i want.
 
Well I think I'd be more than happy with 4.2ghz. Thats achievable without messing with fan settings etc is it?
Do I overclock the gpu too or ?
It's for gaming purposes btw.
 
yes easily achievable to 4.2, just increase you multiplyer in the BIOS. dont use the Gigabyte EasyTune software!!

should need to OC your GFX card but really depends what games you are playing :)


just google 'overclock 3570k' will give you some guids on how to OC the i5.
 
4.2 will be easy ya can jsut change your multiplier to 42 in bios, the GPU should overclock without any voltage adjustment also, ya can just turn up the sliders in CCC overdrive.

Should be a very nice gaming rig.
 
Probably be playing GW2 and the new sim city and hopefully be prepared to run Rome 2 smoothly :P
Is gpu overclocking more complicated?
I basically want my rig to be the best it can be without going too in depth with all the fans syncing and stuff. I don't feel confident enough to do it and I don't want my pc to burn out after a few months :P
 
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