Simple overclock for complete novice on 3 different cpus

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villanut

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Hi Guys,
I've 3 systems built in the last 3 years or so which I'll list the specs -
My system
i7 3930k
asus p9x79
Gtx 980ti

My children's
i5 3570k
Asus p8z77 Pro
Gtx 980

i5 4690k
As Rock Z extreme 6
Gtx 970

Up until the last few days the 2 pcs with the Asus motherboard have been running in the ezmode optimal setting,when they were built I was told this was fine to use.
But one of my sons was told that this isn't the best idea as the voltage is too high,after looking on a few sites this does seem to be the general opinion.

Do you guys agree ? And if so can someone explain a simple overclock for the two Asus pcs and explain each setting to change to get a bit more performance out of them ?
All the systems are mainly used for gaming and I'm guessing now I've switched the settings to normal mode we'll see some drop in performance.
Also if you think it's needed a simple guide for the Asrock too.

I'm not looking to get any extreme overclock just something simple to enable me and the kids to game at max settings using 1080p until and upgrade is needed.
Which just to be sure are these cpu fine for now with this set up ?

Many thank's in advance for any help
 
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hwlr77

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each cpu will overclock differently, so you're going to have to devote a lot of time to overclocking 3 computers.

you can go into the bios and increase the multiplier then restart and run a stress test like prime95, or occt. let it run for 30 minutes and if it doesn't crash go back into the bios and reduce the core voltage and stress test again. you could leave your multiplier as it is and just try reducing the core voltage to find the lowest stable core voltage. you can see how this can become time consuming.

while testing your overclock, use manual voltage. once you've found your stable overclock you can set the voltage to adaptive or offset voltage.

i did notice when i started overclocking that my "optimized default" settings in my bios would let my vcore go up to 1.36.. now i have it set to never go over 1.2.
 
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villanut

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Thank's for the reply as for the time and overclocking 3 machines I guess i didn't make my post clear enough,I was wondering if I need to overclock them all to get the best at 1080p.
I'm not going to go higher res anytime soon, so as long as we can max games out at a high frame rate (all 3 have 144hz monitors) then I'm fine with that.

I did wonder if the newest pc with the i5 4690k would need an overclock or not,I thought that perhaps the opinion would be that the other i5 and my i7 3930k would.
Are the settings you said literally the only things I need to change, and do you recommend adaptive vcore or offset ?
Also what setting in Prime 95 and how long should I run it for ? I seen some people run it for 24 hours ?
 
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Yes, I agree.

Overclocking can be done by 3 ways...
1. Use a dumb software which will hardly work.
2. go to the motherboard's BIOS and automatically let it work (that's your optimized profile).
3. you can go to BIOS and manually set frequencies, speeds, etc, which will work, which can be risky, which can crash and which is complicated but which will be easy to recover if anything goes wrong.

I'd suggest, go to the BIOS and manually, under limits, increase CPU Frequency to the normal turbo limit, and the CPU Voltage to as less as possible.

ASUS Motherboards also have an AI Overclock Tuner. You can also simply hit that and it'll overclock but it will NEVER be best optimized until you do it manually.

If you want to do it manually, please list detailed specifications about each of your desktop's parts, including CPU Cooler and RAM.

Whenever you do it manually, the first thing is to know how to reset/fix it if it goes wrong. For most motherboards, there's 2 CLRTC Jumper Pins which have to be shorted with a metal object, carefully, for 30 seconds to 1 minute to reset all BIOS settings to default. If there aren't any pins, you can carefully take out that flat button cell battery on your motherboard for 5 minutes, put it back in, to reset the BIOS.

It'll be better to search the internet or YouTube for an overclocking guide and following it, as it's hard and time consuming to do that on text and on a forum.

State which way you want to do the overclocking. :)
 
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I'd like to try a simple overclock manually
i5 3570k
8gb ram dual channel ddr3 668mhz 9.9.9.24
Asus p8z77 V pro
Gtx 980
Noctua D-14

i5 4690k
16gb Ram Dual Channel ddr3 666mhz 9.9.9.24
As Rock z97 Extreme6
Gtx 970
Noctua D15

i7 3930k
16gb Ram ddr3 667mhz 9.9.9.24
asus p9x79
gtx 980ti
Noctua d14

I've found this for a simple overclock for my pc, does this seem ok ? Even though I read in the comments on another video of his even though it ran on Prime 95 for 24 hours he had a crash afterwards and had to adjust to 3.8 instead of 4 to stay at the stock voltage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFEwRGrFbzk

 
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