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Overclocking (Questions)
HiddenJumper:
Okay, well I'm pretty new to OCing. I pretty knowledgable about computers and about building them but I've never really overclocked a system. Ran well with stock settings with whatever I had. However, I feel with my current rig, I'm not getting as much out of it as I feel I could be getting so I wanted to try overclocking the system for two reasons:
1) More bang for the buck
2) Experience in overclocking.
Now, to begin, I need information such as: what settings need to be tweaked? What numbers should I be looking for in the manuals I got with my CPU and Mobo to make sure I don't burn a hole in the board? What is standard? What do I need to watch out for?
I know there's more questions to be asked I just can't think of 'em. Where should I begin?
Now these are the specs I'm currently running in the system:
Core i5 (running at about 2.8 ghz) (not sandy bridge)
GIGABYTE P55A UD3 Rev. 2 (the board itself says Rev 2, but the Gigabyte software says I have Rev 1. Which one do I trust? I would assume what it says on the board itself).
G.SKILL 4 gigs 1333 mhz (don't want to restart the system to check my timings)
Arctic Freezer Pro CPU Fan (forgot the rev number)
Thermaltake Armor+ Case
Any other info you guys need let me know. Where do I start? ???
Lupin:
--- Quote from: HiddenJumper on June 12, 2011, 04:32:00 AM ---Any other info you guys need let me know. Where do I start? ???
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Start by not asking here. There are more knowledgeable forums out there about overclocking. Asking about it here is a waste of time. You can also ask around in #bakabt. You'd get better answers on the IRC channel than in here.
http://www.overclock.net/intel-cpus/
http://hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2
http://forums.anandtech.com/forumdisplay.php?f=5
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/forumdisplay.php?59-Intel
Read some of the stickies on those sites. They provide more info than any answer you'll get here.
NaRu:
I don't recommend overclocking for you because you won't see a difference from everyday computing. You may see 10 FPS increase in some games but you wont increase your over all performance more then 10 percent. Plus you have stock cooling and you won't be able to go very far.
vuzedome:
--- Quote from: NaRu on June 12, 2011, 05:20:28 AM ---I don't recommend overclocking for you because you won't see a difference from everyday computing. You may see 10 FPS increase in some games but you wont increase your over all performance more then 10 percent. Plus you have stock cooling and you won't be able to go very far.
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Actually HiddenJumper is using an after market CPU cooler, and to be honest OC does give improved performance in everyday usage, unless you're used to things being fast and all which I'm pretty sure NaRu has grown accustomed to.
flyawave:
Well fist thing's first, we need to establish what'll fuck shit up.
Overclocking is quite safe so long as you don't overvolt like a maniac. The problem is you might well HAVE to overvolt certain components because they become unstable running at X clockspeed without the voltage to back it up.
Normally, the first thing to clock up is the CPU multiplier, but this will most likely already be at the highest possible multiplier. FSB overclocking comes next. Bear in mind this will clock everything up, so your weakest component will fail first. Usually the RAM. These failures are not dangerous at all, the system will just refuse to boot, but you can obvs still go to the BIOS.
So your RAM just failed lets say. You have four options.
1. Lower the FSB clockspeed
2. Lower the RAM multiplier
3. Use less strict RAM timings
4. OVERVOLT
So working under the assumption that you clocked up till it failed to boot, you could just clock it down from the failure point. This will likely be unstable, and your OS (Assuming Windows) will probably crash. This is also ok. Now we need to see what's causing the issue. Either your RAM is still unstable or your CPU is. If it's the CPU, you can only overvolt, lower the multiplier or decrease clockspeed again. If it's still the RAM, then you can do one of those four^.
The way I've seen it been done is push to fail without overvolting, then slightly increase the voltage to make it stable. This is arguably an inefficient method, but I've never seen someone do it another way.
Your rig looks like you could bump up the FSB such that your CPU clocks at 3GHz without any overvolting and still maintain stability. Try that and tell us what happens!
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