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Today I just received my Corsair H100i and Intel Core i5 4670k. I got everything installed and it went smoothly. I have never overclocked before and have no idea what to do or where to start and would like someone to tell me exactly what to do and what settings to change. My systems specs are Core i5 4670k, Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD3H, Corsair cx600, 1tb WD Caviar Blue, 8gb Corsair Vengeance RAM. Thanks for the help

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CPU: i5 4670k i won the silicon lottery Cooler: Corsair H100i w/ 2x Corsair SP120 quiet editions Mobo: ASUS Z97 SABERTOOTH MARK 1 Ram: Corsair Platnums 16gb (4x4gb) Storage: Samsun 840 evo 256gb and random hard drives GPU: EVGA acx 2.0 gtx 980 PSU: Corsair RM 850w Case: Fractal Arc Midi R2 windowed 

 

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give this OC guide a ride :)

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41234-intel-haswell-4670k-4770k-overclocking-guide/

 

most of the intel is inside that link

 

Damn wano1997 beat me to it..

 

 

first watch linus's video and tell me if you feel confident after :)

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the 4670k is arguably one of the most popular processors out now and so if you look into the forum your sure to find dozens of other posts asking the same questions with thorough and accurate answers. my personal adivce would be the use of the Intel extreme tuning utility to actively monitor your temperatures and cpu stats, use prime 95 (up for debate by many) to do the stress test, and just take it easy. you have to try hard to break anything so dont worry there. as you can see in my signature mine is capable of 4.5 ghz with 1.26 v but just recently i took it back down to 4.4 ghz on 1.21 v in order to keep the heat down and therefore keep my system quieter. the performance difference there is minimal. message me back if you need further aid.

 

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give this OC guide a ride :)

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41234-intel-haswell-4670k-4770k-overclocking-guide/

 

most of the intel is inside that link

 

Damn wano1997 beat me to it..

 

 

first watch linus's video and tell me if you feel confident after :)

Ok, so I watched over Linus's video a few times and still feel confused  :( I have literally never overclocked before so I dont know what all the values or things that you can change mean. the only thing I can really see in my BIOS that I can recognize and change semi-confidently is CPU Vcore voltage and CPU Speed Ratio.. Thanks for the help guys :D this is my first forum account and dont really know my way around

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Ok, so I watched over Linus's video a few times and still feel confused  :( I have literally never overclocked before so I dont know what all the values or things that you can change mean. the only thing I can really see in my BIOS that I can recognize and change semi-confidently is CPU Vcore voltage and CPU Speed Ratio.. Thanks for the help guys :D this is my first forum account and dont really know my way around

 

 

give my guide a try !!!

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41234-intel-haswell-4670k-4770k-overclocking-guide/

 

 

it will take you a little bit of time. your not got to find your best\ stable settings overnight

 

take your time

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give my guide a try !!!

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41234-intel-haswell-4670k-4770k-overclocking-guide/

 

 

it will take you a little bit of time. your not got to find your best\ stable settings overnight

 

take your time

Thank you!!! I am following your guide at them moment and have been running my i5 at 4.4 GHz at 1.27V stress testing in IEXTU and have been running stable at an average of 69 C for about 20 minutes. I am going to leave it running overnight and hope it remains stable. Tomorrow I am going to change the ring bus values and continue clocking my CPU higher. Thanks for all the help  :D

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give my guide a try !!!

 

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/41234-intel-haswell-4670k-4770k-overclocking-guide/

 

 

it will take you a little bit of time. your not got to find your best\ stable settings overnight

 

take your time

I have just finished stress testing at 1.28v and got it to run stable for 8 hours. I can find the CPU Ring Voltage (known as uncore voltage on my board), but I cannot find the VCCIN voltage in my bios. Is there other names for it? Which tab might it be in?

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I have just finished stress testing at 1.28v and got it to run stable for 8 hours. I can find the CPU Ring Voltage (known as uncore voltage on my board), but I cannot find the VCCIN voltage in my bios. Is there other names for it? Which tab might it be in?

 

 

gigabyte calls this Vrin External Override

 

it is the first selection in the cpu voltage area

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gigabyte calls this Vrin External Override

 

it is the first selection in the cpu voltage area

Alright, I just finished changing some of these values but as of stress testing or sometimes even just openining a program it freezes. I have resorted to resetting to defaults and starting at square one. What values should I be increasing/decreasing? Thanks for all of your help

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Alright, I just finished changing some of these values but as of stress testing or sometimes even just openining a program it freezes. I have resorted to resetting to defaults and starting at square one. What values should I be increasing/decreasing? Thanks for all of your help

 

sounds like you havent completed part1.

 

were you running 4.4ghz at 1.28V vccin set for 1.9V ?

 

mem clocked at 1333 1.5V?

 

did you change anything else?

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This is for Gigabyte boards

 

But I see you already got it going well.

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sounds like you havent completed part1.

 

were you running 4.4ghz at 1.28V vccin set for 1.9V ?

 

mem clocked at 1333 1.5V?

 

did you change anything else?

Ok so I forgot to set the VCCIN to 1.9V. As of now I am running at 4.4 GHz at 1.29V (1.28V crashed after 7 and a half hours of stress testing) with the VCCIN set to 1.9V and have been running stable for 8+ hours, and ran through Cinebench flawlessly with an average score of 626. I have my memory clocked at 1333 MHz and running at 1.5V (This was the stock voltage. do I run it lower?). What do I do next? Do I change your the values in part 2 of your overlcocking guide now?

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Ok so I forgot to set the VCCIN to 1.9V. As of now I am running at 4.4 GHz at 1.29V (1.28V crashed after 7 and a half hours of stress testing) with the VCCIN set to 1.9V and have been running stable for 8+ hours, and ran through Cinebench flawlessly with an average score of 626. I have my memory clocked at 1333 MHz and running at 1.5V (This was the stock voltage. do I run it lower?). What do I do next? Do I change your the values in part 2 of your overlcocking guide now?

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Good luck! 4.6 or above is higher than average, 

 

May the odds be ever in your favour.

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yes !

OK, this is what Im sitting at right now:

CPU Clock Ratio: 44 (4.4 GHz)

 

CPU Vcore Voltage: 1.29V

 

Memory Frequency: 1333 MHz

 

Memory Voltage: 1.5V

 

CPU Ring Voltage: 1.28V

 

VCCIN Voltage: 2.0V, Was not stable unless I exceeded 2.2V

 

CPU Ring Bus Ratio: 40 (4000 MHz) Decreasing this to find stability, currently stress testing

 

After I find out if Im stable at 4000 MHz with 2.0V on the VCCIN, I am going to begin reducing the voltages on the VCCIN and CPU Ring. I will update with results.

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good job!

 

well done

 

you dont want to exceed 2.2V on the VCCIN, good call at x40

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good job!

 

well done

 

you dont want to exceed 2.2V on the VCCIN, good call at x40

Ok so I finally got it stable. How do I go about pushing it farther? Do I just increase the Vcore Voltage and the CPU Multiplier?

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Yup thats right

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