Tradesman1 :
No problem, can continue to take it up slowly, say 1 at a time, then when it crashes (and it will
) it's time to add a little vCore (CPU voltage)
I am also an extreme noob at this. I have read and read on overclocking, and I think I am even more confused now than ever.
I have a 4770k and this same board. Can you safely overclock by using just the using the clock ratio and vcore? I don't want to go far, just maybe 4.3 (I'm on air). I keep reading of VRINs, LLC, etc. and I don't even seem to find them in this BIOS. I'm sure they are there, just called different things.
Is it same just to use the auto-overclocks (the 20% gives me 4.3)? Is that safe longterm? (It seems as if I have read that auto-overclocks give too much voltage.
I'm also working out a cooling problem. The 20% autooverclock gives me 85-90C on OCCT, which may be a bit high from what I have read. I am going to clean/reapply thermal past and reseat my CM Hyper EVO 212 tonight.