Overclocking for Beginners
- Thread starter OmniPrezident
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Hunter
The 47 Ronin
I wouldn't follow that website, I dont think they knew WTF they're doing.
Go to these and read the stickies
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/
http://www.overclock.net/
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/
Go to these and read the stickies
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/
http://www.overclock.net/
http://www.overclockers.com/forums/
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/
Blood Fiend
Active Member
Overclocking is easy... If you leave your Voltage on auto, and just raise your Multiplier, or clock speed. Using cpu monitering program to see what voltage its at... Start from there in the bios, slowly lowering the cpu voltage untill it blue screens, then raise it one or 2....
make sure you can Prime 95 for 4 hours... and use intel burn test to get extreme heat right away, to test if the clock is viable.
make sure you can Prime 95 for 4 hours... and use intel burn test to get extreme heat right away, to test if the clock is viable.
use the forums on those sites, too... they help a lot. [H]ardForums is good, too.
+1 the god father of OC, listen to hunter and you will have a successful OC without issues.
OmniPrezident
The 47 Ronin
Ok, I'm going to go read the stickies, thanks Hunter.
I've overclocked the CPU via the ASUS Bios. The things I'm unaware of are, what is happening to the memory and gfx card when the CPU is overclocked? I'm wondering if the memory is overclocking itself to keep up with the core speed? I have no idea what multipliers I can/should be using to keep the ram/gfx up to speed with the core speed. I know it's custom for each rig, but I need to find out what to shoot for. Cooling is a whole other ball of wax, and I can figure that stuff out, np (cooling is the fun part anyway). The only thing I have cooled right now is the CPU with a coolermaster fan, and the gfx with stock fans. All the hardware is OC ready, very durable, so I don't have to worry too much about frying something (within reason). And later on, if I have move to water cooling, I'll do so!
I've noticed when I OC my CPU (i7 2600k), the bus speed and the multipliers are variable. They fluctuate up/down with in response the computational demands. Is this normal, or is it a power saving setting in the bios? If you OC, do you guys lock these speeds? Let me know!
I also have no clue as to how overclocking a graphics card works. I've tried a couple times, and can't finish a game of CS without running into a blue screen, or a system lockup. This is one thing I gotta go read about!
CSS runs at about 300fps steadily, CSGO runs at about 80-200fps, and I think I can see these figures double, or increase by about 1.5. We'll see...
Editing post as I uproot info:
This is the bios I'm dealing with, found a good article specific to it! -
[h=1]P67 and Z68 BIOS Guide – Basic to Intermediate Overclocking[/h]
fAt Kaka
The 47 Ronin
EVGA precision X to overclock NVIDIA video card. increase 5-10%. Turn the fan speed up too. make it as a startup item in windows.