Hello all.
I've had my new PC for a few months now and I've been wanting to try overclocking it. I was a tad hesitant to go poking around in the BIOS so when I heard about the Intel Extreme Tuning app I decided to give it a try.
As you can see from the above picture my cpu multiplier maxes out a 39. I decided to start real slow.
I opened the utility, went to basic tuning, clicked I agree. In all tutorials I've seen I've only seen a slider for "Processor Core Ratio" so I was surprised to see an additioanl slider for "Processor Cache Ratio".
The Core Ratio slider was set to 37x while the Cache ratio was at 39x.
Tipping my toe into the pool a nudged the Core Ration slider to 40x and hit "Apply"
Instant blue screen.
Being the glutton for punishment that I am, I go back into the utility upon reboot and this time moved both sliders to 40x and hit apply.
Victory dance.
I started messing around with the sliders. I think the last successful application was the Cache Ratio around 43x and the Core Ration around 45x. At this point I blue screened again and decided that mayhap I should reach out to those with more knowledge on this than I.
I've done some digging here on the forums and also sought advice from the Oracle Google but nothing seemed to specifically explain my situation.
Any insight? Do I have a bad chip? Am I flubbing something up?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks!
Edit #1
So like the overtired goober that I am, I forgot to adjust the cpu voltage. I believe that is what caused the blue screens. When I went into the Advanced setting in the Extreme Tuning App and increased the core voltage from "default" things went much better.
I've now got a maximum multiplier of 45 and a core voltage of 1.230. I can probably lower the voltage some and will experiment with how far I can drop it before I experience instability again but right now temps under stress load are comfortably under 58C during stress test. I haven't run any extensive tests yet. I just used the stress test on the "Bench" tab of CPUZ.
Once that was all done, I booted into BIOS and checked to see that all the values I set in the software transcribed over. They had so yay for that.
I think I'll keep the 4.5 as my max. I tried kicking it up to 4.7 while in BIOS and while it was stable at 4.6 she reacted badly booting out of 47. I'm not sure if that was due to core voltage issues or just hitting the max my cpu can obtain but I'm happy with what I've done here. I think this is a good first step, right?
One thing that really messed me up in all of this is the diversity of language. Almost all the guides, forums posts and articles I've read over the past few months have mentioned thinks like "CPU Clock", "BCLK" or "Multiplier" but then I go into my BIOS and I don't see any of that. I see "CPU Ratio" and other things I've never seen mentioned.
Makes a guy like me rather nervous when things don't line up like I expect.