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Phillip1218

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I have tried other forums and gotten a book of links to other forums and most of it was in another technical language than what I currently know lol. I have built the following and I am wanting to safely overclock only to about 4.0GHz. I have never personally overclocked before I've only witnessed other techs do it and did some research myself. Can anyone give me pretty easy step by step instructions on how to SAFELY overclock the CPU RAM and GPU. Here are my specs. I know the BIOS has very nice options but I've already locked it up a few times trying to get the memory up to speed so I don't wanna go any farther without concrete instructions about this setup.

Corsair 230T CC-9011038-WW Tower
CORSAIR GS series GS700 700W PSU
GIGABYTE GA-Z87X-UD3H Motherboard
Intel Core i5-4670K Haswell Processor
Kingston (KHX21C11T3K4/32X) 32GB 2133MHz Extreme RAM
PowerColor AX7870 HD GPU
3 X Blue 140mm Cooler Master Silent Fan 140 SI1
2 X RED 140mm Fans
1 X 120mm Black Cooler Master Xtraflo 120 Rear Exhaust
2 X 120mm Blue Cooler Master Xtraflo 120 CPU Fans in push pull config. on Hyper 212 EVO
Intel SSD 320 Series 80GB 2.5" for OS
.5TB SATA internal Backup & Storage
Windows 8.1 Pro
Thank you for any help!
 
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Yeah man lets try not to do two things at once. For now lets focus on just the CPU overclocking and leave memory alone till we get the CPU sorted out. Just keep bumping voltage up by .2 and see when it becomes stable. I'm running mine at 4.4ghz and 1.28v on air (Cooler Master Hyper212 EVO) and temps are fine.
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Wesley Wall

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Hey man watch this video. It explains it very well. Keep in mind Haswell is not very good at overclocking so don't expect anything massive. (4.7ghz and beyond) It is safe in my opinion as long as you don't change anything your not supposed to and keep CPU voltage at or below 1.3v.
 
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THANK YOU!!! With the combination of that video and this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgNU4YvS8oU I am so much closer now.
 
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Wesley Wall

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Yeah NCIX makes great videos as well. In fact the guy in the video I linked works for them. Let me know if I can be of any more assistance. Personally I like to set my goal around 4.5ghz and see where you end up. I'd say start at about 1.2v and bump it up by .2 until stable then see if you can go higher or have to go lower and one you get it stable mess around to see the lowest voltage you can achieve with the core clock you've ended up with.
 
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I wouldn't mind that except I'm on air still. So I've decided to start from the beginning and I tried running at 4GHz 1.1V and set the Vcore to 1.1v and the VRIN Loadline Calibration to medium since they don't have numbers now apparently. I set memory timing to manual with xmp 1 and the correct voltage. Restarted and it crashed right away.

Just tried again but brought it down to 1.08V and windows came up just for few seconds and a sad face came up and the pc restarted really fast. Any suggestions?
 
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Yeah man lets try not to do two things at once. For now lets focus on just the CPU overclocking and leave memory alone till we get the CPU sorted out. Just keep bumping voltage up by .2 and see when it becomes stable. I'm running mine at 4.4ghz and 1.28v on air (Cooler Master Hyper212 EVO) and temps are fine.
 
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You mean by .02?
 
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I finally gave and just set the Vcore to auto and the CPU at 4.0 with the memory on XMP Profile 1 and it's voltage at 1.65 and everything is working great now! Does anyone know if I could push for 4.2-4.4 with the Vcore still on auto? If not how would I determine a good starting voltage to try? Could I go by the voltages used in the AIDA64 stress test while on 4.0? Thanks for your help!
 
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I personally don't like nor recommend having Vcore on auto for overclocking as it tends to put voltages WAY higher than they need to be. For now run it manual until you get it dialed in then change it to Adaptive or Offset.
 
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