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I'm a little worried about overclocking, I have a i5 4690k with a asus maximus vii hero motherboard, and 4x4 16gb total of gskill ripjaws x 1600mhz cas 9. if I attempt to overclock I'm going to start with using the auto tuning wizard in the bios, or ill use asus ai suite 3 from windows. so what could go wrong? that's what I'm worried about.
 
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Task manager simply lists the name of your processor, which typically includes the stock base clock. Monitor your CPU clock speed with a proper monitoring utility (I use HWiNFO64). If it's 4.5 GHz under load then your overclock has been applied properly. I would also look at what the max Vcore is under load.

You shouldn't have to set Windows to high performance. It's normal for Windows to downclock your CPU while idling, it just matters that it gets up to 4.5 GHz under load. You can use the stress test listed above, or try Prime 95 v26.6 (run the small FFTs test).

As said above, there's a good chance your voltage is higher than it needs to be. The general consensus I've heard is that 1.30-1.35 is the max safe voltage for a 24/7...
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You're better of manually overclocking in the BIOS. If you start off without touching the voltage and make sure your CPU stays under 80C under load, the worst thing that could happen is that it'll eventually get unstable and crash and/or fail to boot. At this point you can either reduce the overclock to the last stable frequency, or start increasing voltage.

With auto overclocking utilities, you don't really know what voltage they're going to set so you can end up with your voltage and/or temps undesirably high.

What CPU cooler do you have?
 
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Just did my first OC last night with Ryzen 1600 and msi gaming pro. It was scary at first. First make sure you touch metal stuff to eliminate static elec before touch the mb. Second, search for cmos battery on the board, you will need to remove it from time to time. Long story short, don't put too high voltage on it and try adjusting CPU voltage and frequency until system is stable :) prepare to see pc can't start and remove cmos battery from time to time. To be continued...
 
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Pretty sure just about every mobo has a pair of pins that you can short to clear the CMOS. Much easier than removing CMOS battery. Just look in your mobo manual for something like 'CLR_CMOS jumper'.
 
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cooler is a corsair h100i v2
 
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I just have to push a button to clear the cmos
 
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Always overclock manually, i had my i5 4690k at 4.8Ghz with 1.35v. If you're unsure then stay away from the voltage since you can't really kill your cpu without adding more volts. That i5 should generally do 4-4.2GHz on stock voltage. If you want to add voltage then i'd suggest you stay under 1.35 if you want it to last, though it can handle 1.4v if you have the cooling. Also, temps should not go over 70c.
 
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I overclocked my i5 4690k to 4.5ghz on my asus maximus vii hero board but the task manager and cpu-z says i5 4690k@3.5ghz but it also shows the overclock as well the pc is pinged @ 4.48ghz voltage is 1.352v so do I ignore when it says @3.5ghz? I also had to set the power to high performance in windows 10 power options for the cpu overclock to take effect. temps are holding at 34c idle. I'm using a corsair h100i v2 cpu cooler.
 
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I overclocked my i5 4690k to 4.5ghz on my asus maximus vii hero board but the task manager and cpu-z says i5 4690k@3.5ghz but it also shows the overclock as well the pc is pinged @ 4.48ghz voltage is 1.352v so do I ignore when it says @3.5ghz? I also had to set the power to high performance in windows 10 power options for the cpu overclock to take effect. temps are holding at 34c idle. I'm using a corsair h100i v2 cpu cooler.
 
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Windows usually doesn't recognize an overclock on Intel cpus. I personally use Cpu-z to validate my overclocks.
https://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
I think the 4.5GHz oc should be stable with less voltage too unless you want to push it further.
A good way to test stability is to run Aida64 stress test for some time to see if it crashes and to also monitor temps under load.
https://www.aida64.com/downloads/NDdkZGMzN2M=
 
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Task manager simply lists the name of your processor, which typically includes the stock base clock. Monitor your CPU clock speed with a proper monitoring utility (I use HWiNFO64). If it's 4.5 GHz under load then your overclock has been applied properly. I would also look at what the max Vcore is under load.

You shouldn't have to set Windows to high performance. It's normal for Windows to downclock your CPU while idling, it just matters that it gets up to 4.5 GHz under load. You can use the stress test listed above, or try Prime 95 v26.6 (run the small FFTs test).

As said above, there's a good chance your voltage is higher than it needs to be. The general consensus I've heard is that 1.30-1.35 is the max safe voltage for a 24/7 overclock with Haswell, so you're kinda toeing the line there.
 
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ok it does go up to 4.5ghz under a load so I guess I'm good.
 
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