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I've got the cpu OC pretty much down. The CPU can really take a beating and still stay cool, even with just air cooling, at least for a decent amount of gameplay. I OC'd from 3.4 -> 4.8 no problem. I also found that the bios I have will OC the ram to keep up with the core speeds, so I don't really need to worry about ram at the moment, until I feel the need to fine tune.

Just as a note, I didn't see any increase in FPS for CSGO, which brings me to my next point...

The next thing I need to figure out is what to OC the gfx card to. This gfx card is where I always run into trouble. Just fyi I'm running an ASUS GTX 570 1280 DDR5, at stock GPU speed which is 742 MHz, and Memory at 950 MHz.

Downloading gfx card OC program > More reading...

Edit:
Ha... 4.8 was too high. Blue screened!

Also, my GPU temp is pretty high, like 75C. I'm not sure if I want to try pushing it until I get a real cooling system!

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I was about to post 4.8ghz is kinda high for aircooled.
Watch out for leaving the voltages at auto
 
There are power saving options in your bios, that should be turned off when your trying to get your stable clock... can be turned back on after if u want.

The RAM, memory.. Will overclock when u raise the Multiplier. So you have to tune it back down closest to its factory tuning.. My ram is set at... 1604... with a slight cpu over clock. try not to go over 10% overclock on your ram.

p.s., Try not to go aboce 1.4v on the cpu... and if your overclocking.. make sure you have a good cpu cooler.. heatsink or water cooler.
 
Hunter said:
I was about to post 4.8ghz is kinda high for aircooled.
Watch out for leaving the voltages at auto
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Never leave voltages on auto... Just use auto to find a starting point... and manually lower the voltage after.. never use auto permanantly
 
Blood Fiend said:
Never leave voltages on auto... Just use auto to find a starting point... and manually lower the voltage after.. never use auto permanantly
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Gotchya. They've been on auto for a long long time... The bios that I OC with is pretty retard proof (aka prez proof), but I'll mess around with turning auto off and tinkering with voltages around 1.2-1.3
 
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