So I recently put together my first gaming rig, and it seems to be solid, and I think I'm ready to start playing around with overclocking. I've done a little bit, but only with the auto adjustments available on the Asus ROG bios. I'm running a Haswell 4670k, and I've done the auto 4.2 and auto 4.4, and I can boot on both, however, 4.4 I can't get much further than the desktop before it kicks me out, and on 4.2 I can at least start a cpu burn, but it tends to be done after about 5-10 minutes.
My CPU temps never leave get much out of the 40s with stock speeds, and I barely hit the 60s when I start a burn at 4.2, so heat isn't the problem. I'm wondering if I may perhaps have better success with manual adjustments, I'm just not sure where to begin with playing around with all these numbers. I was able to get a moderate overclock on my GPU, with +100 on the core, and +200 on the memory, so I'm happy with that. Lastly, I'm already pushing out 12000 on 3dMark, so I'm wondering if it is even worth overclocking the cpu, since the gains from that would be minimal in terms of gaming. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
My CPU temps never leave get much out of the 40s with stock speeds, and I barely hit the 60s when I start a burn at 4.2, so heat isn't the problem. I'm wondering if I may perhaps have better success with manual adjustments, I'm just not sure where to begin with playing around with all these numbers. I was able to get a moderate overclock on my GPU, with +100 on the core, and +200 on the memory, so I'm happy with that. Lastly, I'm already pushing out 12000 on 3dMark, so I'm wondering if it is even worth overclocking the cpu, since the gains from that would be minimal in terms of gaming. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
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