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Hello!

I've been thinking about overclocking my system based on what people here have been saying about my setup. I've been hearing things like "That system, to me looks like it should be overclocked".

The only two things I was missing were a good CPU cooler and some kickass RAM, which I got today, so now I'm ready to do this!

The RAM is Corsair Vengeance PRO 2x8GB (16gb total) at 2400MHz.
By default my BIOS was set to Auto, which set the RAM to run at 1333. I just changed it manually to 2400.

Now, I guess the next step is to overclock the CPU/GPU?

What are the things I have to look at before I do it, so I don't risk damaging anything?
And of course, is it just a matter of changing settings in the BIOS or do I have to do something else?

Here's my system's other specs:

My system
 
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baterax

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Ok, so that link in my original post has all my system specs... what other information do we need? (Serious question)
Just to be thorough, I will now actually type everything out here:

Processor: AMD FX8350 8-core 4GHz
Motherboard: ASUS Crosshair V Formula-Z
RAM: Corsair VENGEANCE Pro 16GB (2x8) 2400MHz DDR3
SSD 1: SAMSUNG 840 Series 120GB
SSD 2: SAMSUNG 840 EVO 250GB
SSD 3: SAMSUNG 840 Pro Series 256GB
HDD: Seagate Barracuda 3TB 7200RPM
Video board: HIS RADEON HD 7970 GHz edition 3GB
Sound: Creative X-Fi Extreme
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper 212X
Case: Corsair Obsidian series 650D
PSU: Corsair HX850

Of course there's more stuff. BD-R drive, external stuff, media card reader, mouse/keyboard etc but those are irrelevant to this topic so...
Even some of the stuff on the list here is irrelevant (I think).

What am I missing?
 
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hi there baterax, well can u tell for exactly how long have u been using the pc for exactly can u specify that, will help a little
well so the first thing u need to know is that ur cpu cooler is air based so overclocking again will be limited
now the question is how much do u want to overclock it
two things you need to keep in mind is that overclocking the cpu will increase heat production and so will it decrease its life span
so
let's get u started
do a safe overclock at 4.6 ghz
for that
1)in ur bios overclocking menu change the the core ratio to 46
2)do not try to mess with bclk (base clock multiplier)
3)disable igpu overclock if available
4)change vll to fixed mode
5)change vll value to 1.288 or 1.300
6)save and exit
7)run prime95 for 1 or 2 hours (tip: try running multiple instances of prime95 for extreme stress)
8)run memtest along with prime95 (http://hcidesign.com/memtest/) use this one and run mutiple instances to completely utilize R.A.M.
hope this works if it did not then do us all a favour please post the uefi pix of the bios and also for the cpu configuration
 
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baterax

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Ok that's more like it.

I built this PC a little over a year ago.

As far as how much I wanna do it, it's just that I want to get at least the RAM running at its full 2400MHz which I think right now, it isn't...
The CPU, from what I've been seeing running everything I run here, hasn't been working even half as hard as it can, so I'm not sure I need to mess with it, especially now that you mentioned it might make it die sooner... hmmm.
 
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CPU NO MATTER WHAT U DO UN LESS STRESS TESTED USING PRIME 95, MOST PROBABLY WILL NEVER BE UNDER FULL LOAD NO MATTER WHAT ,
well u said ur R.A.M. is not running at its full speed can u specify what speed was it running at ??
 
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Ok here's the weird thing with the RAM.

It's rated 2400MHz.
The old sticks I had were at 677MHz.
When I changed them to the new Corsair Vengeance Pro ones, the BIOS automatically set them by default to 1333MHz (I think that was the number).
So I just went in there and changed it to 2400MHz.
They seem to be running at that now.
I ran 3DMark to compare with previous results after adding the new CPU cooler and the new RAM, and there was a 3% increase.

I expected more, but I guess RAM doesn't play such a big part in that, contrary to what I thought.
The guy at the store suggested that I buy this cool bracket thing, with liquid cooling. I'd have to remove the heatsink and coolers part of my GPU and add that to it instead.

Since I don't wanna mess with the CPU, I guess the GPU would be the next thing, right?

Any of you guys ever do this?
 
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Monitoring software and stress test software may display RAM's SPD speed instead of the active rated speed, so ignore that. If bios sys it is running at 2400Mhz, that is the real data.
 
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The guy at the store suggested that I buy this cool bracket thing, with liquid cooling. I'd have to remove the heatsink and coolers part of my GPU and add that to it instead.
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well in my opinion setting up a liquid cooling system is a hazel in case of the gpu and the cpu both ,or any of these i would suggest u go with the complete solution i-e, buy the liquid cooling blocks for cpu and gpu both and then install the thing, because even if u go for the gpu only water/liquid cooling u will need a pump a reservoir and all that stuff, so it would be a big deal but if u add a little difficulty and time u can add the cpu liquid cooling block and u are extreme to go
kudos and u can even fulfill ur desire of overclocking and overclocking extreme, easily at low temps
 
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