New to overclocking, need help

BraedenNK

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I built my computer not too long ago and I've kept to the factory settings and haven't tried to overclock at all. As I've been watching more and more videos I decided that I want to try to overclock my CPU. I'm nervous to mess around in the BIOS since I don't want to fry anything and all the videos I've watched don't really help me all that much. If you have any videos or guides to overclocking that were helpful to you I would love to see them, thanks.

SPECS:
Intel i7-7700k
ASUS ROG STRIX 1070 8GB
ASUS PRIME Z270-P MB
CoolerMaster Hyper 212 EVO (The reason i'm nervous to OC, a $30 CPU cooler on a $300 CPU)
20GB 3000MHz Corsair Vengeance LPX RAM
 
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you wont fry anything unless you bump too much voltage through things, the only...

Seanie280672

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you wont fry anything unless you bump too much voltage through things, the only thing you need to mess with when it comes to memory, is enable xmp, leave all other memory settings alone, it will auto set voltage, timings and speed according to xmp programming on the ram itself, thats your ram sorted.

First of all, you need a good cpu cooler, the stock cooler wont do it for you.

As for the CPU, never leave voltages on auto, you never really know what the system is pumping through your cpu to keep it stable, alot of the time, its alot more than required, set voltages across the board (except memory) to normal, this should give you plenty of headroom, most cpu's will do a fairly good overclock on stock voltages, also, disable all cpu power saving functions in the bios, things like EIST and C-states etc, virtualisation if your not going to use it etc. read read read guides, theres loads out there, some will confuse the hell out of you, others wont.

then its just a case of raising the multiplier for the cpu, a few steps at a time, and then testing, then raise some more and test, keep doing that until it starts failing tests, then dial back a bit, ive been overclocking for 20 years, this will be the easiest method for you to manually overclock, also, watch some youtube video's or guides to get familiar with bios settings.

last but by far not least, whilst testing, monitor very closely, voltages and temps with some software, I use the MSI command centre and also AIDA64 extreme, testing I use Prime95, OCCT, Realbench, IBT AVX, AIDA64,to test, Cinebench to start as its a quick and easy test to run, AIDA64 is an easy stress test to pass, but needs to be run for about 8 hours, so its good to run overnight, same for the other tests, but to get a good idea of stability, you can run IBT (Intel Burn in Test) standard, 50 passes, takes about 10 mins to run, you will eventually further down the line though want to run this at max settings, 50 passes will take about 2 and a half hours.

Remember, Rome wasnt built in a day, a good stable overclock can take a week easily, I got my new board on Tuesday just gone and im still testing, ive hit my max's and just want to make 100% sure its stable, my testing is nearly done and like I said earlier, ive been overclocking for a good 20 years nearly, its much easier now a days now thats its just a case of overclocking with multipliers and voltages, it used to be only possible by adjusting FSB (front side bus speed) and having to adjust memory dividers to keep ram in check.

 
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