Newb- with new 2500k - want to overclock to 4ghz

Hi Ben, The most important thing about overclocking is learning what you're doing first then do it, if you try and shortcut the steps to a solid overclock, your stability will be a false illusion that becomes evident at the worst possible time.

Never use someone else's settings, that's why none of my guides have BIOS pictures, even with identical hardware two exact systems will overclock differently, you may be close enough to seem stable but actually far from it.



Overclocking is a user responsibility that should already know the answer to that question, why you do it should be the first thing you learn from studying how to do it.



Then I suggest you learn first and ask about the terms you do not understand and gain the understanding you need to proceed, for myself I'm pretty much addicted to overclocking, but I've learned what I'm doing, sometimes the hard way with damaged hardware, which is always a possibility.

I'm not a cheerleader for overclocking just to get you to do it, you're smart enough to ask yourself do I really need to overclock if my machine already does everything I need it to do, that's a very smart question, seeing as how you have no overclocking skills to fall back on, answer that for yourself first.

Or your next post could be, "I did everything in the guide as best I could, now my machine is toast! Please Help!"

Ryan