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fitter1964

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Z87 Sabertooth, Intel i7 4770K, 16gb G-skill PC 2400. Titan, Corsair H80i Cooler, 1 Corsair 180gb SSD 1 WD 320gb Sata HHD, 850w PS. and 1 Evga GTX 680.
So what would be a good but safe OC setting for the CPU and the GPU, say for gaming. and I have the ram set on XMP right now.
 
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Jonathan Sifleet


There is no safe OC setting. EVERY chip is different, you have to find yourself the best Vcore level. When overclocking the CPU, DO NOT GO ABOVE 1.55! Any higher than that no matter what you're using to cool your CPU, it will die! If you look at some of the stickies, that'll help you. Generally you want to get the frequency as high as possible with the vcore as low as possible. On my friends CPU, we managed to get it to 4600 mhz and 1.5 vcore...
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There is no safe OC setting. EVERY chip is different, you have to find yourself the best Vcore level. When overclocking the CPU, DO NOT GO ABOVE 1.55! Any higher than that no matter what you're using to cool your CPU, it will die! If you look at some of the stickies, that'll help you. Generally you want to get the frequency as high as possible with the vcore as low as possible. On my friends CPU, we managed to get it to 4600 mhz and 1.5 vcore, and it idled about 40 degrees (room temp 23), and during gaming its highest was 65 degrees. After that you want to get the RAM as high as possible without the pc not booting. And as for your GPU you'll want to use MSI afterburner, and its essentially the same as the CPU, except you want the core clock and memory clock as high as possible with the voltage as low as possible.
 
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