Asus P8Z77-V Pro/ i5-3750k Overclocking

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vbosch

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Hello all,
I just got done building my first PC and wanted to see what its capable of handling.
I overclocked it last night to almost 4.4 ghz and ran Prime 95 for about 5 hours.
My average temp was about 59c and the highest it hit was 62c.
I live in Minnesota (currently -20 wind chills outside) and heating gets expensive so my house is sitting at about 19c currently.
I followed this video for my settings:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vetYANKn_aw&list=TLu4OCSiwKF9ay5vyaSZsQnbxV1QwsArbj&noredirect=1
So my first question is where should I be looking for errors? The EventViewer?

Also if I wanted to push it further, what settings would I adjust?

Thanks in advance for your help!
 
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You should be running Core Temp and CPU-Z. Look for unreasonable voltage spikes and temperatures.

I did go into event logger and check for WHEA errors. Then I added voltage until the WHEA errors stopped. I wanted as stable of an overclock as I can get.

You may find that your 3570k has an invisible voltage "wall". That is to say, after 4.3 or so, you suddenly have to bump voltage dramatically to get the CPU stable. Thats where I stopped, at 4.3. Some are able to hit 4.5 or possibly 4.6 untill they hit the voltage "wall". At 4.3 I could get stable at around 1.2 voltage. Sure I could boot up at 4.5+ no problem, but I couldn't get stable with less than 1.3 which made my temperatures go way too high, so I decided it wasn't worth it for...
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What should I be monitoring while I am stress testing (using Prime95)?
 
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You should be running Core Temp and CPU-Z. Look for unreasonable voltage spikes and temperatures.

I did go into event logger and check for WHEA errors. Then I added voltage until the WHEA errors stopped. I wanted as stable of an overclock as I can get.

You may find that your 3570k has an invisible voltage "wall". That is to say, after 4.3 or so, you suddenly have to bump voltage dramatically to get the CPU stable. Thats where I stopped, at 4.3. Some are able to hit 4.5 or possibly 4.6 untill they hit the voltage "wall". At 4.3 I could get stable at around 1.2 voltage. Sure I could boot up at 4.5+ no problem, but I couldn't get stable with less than 1.3 which made my temperatures go way too high, so I decided it wasn't worth it for another 200mhz. Depends on how high you want to push your chip, and what effect that may have long term on your components...
 
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The video is only a minute and half. It would probably take that long just to read a post describing the settings or look at screenshots of the settings.
 
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