Overclocking for dummies

[NorStereo]

Hello

 

I've slowly been trying to educate myself a bit more into the basics of overclocking.
I have a 9700k paired with a Z390 Aorus Pro WiFi (Bios version F12a).

In videos and guides I've seen, people tinker with alot of settings in their BIOS, to achieve the overclocks, and I haven't grasped all of them yet.

So biggest question for me, would be the following:
In my BIOS I have 3 "CPU presets": Default, Gaming, Advanced.
With the Advanced selection I'm getting 4,9 steady on all cores, I belive.
Is this even a proper overclock, or only halfway there?
Most other settings in the BIOS just gets put to Auto due to this.

For info, the PC is used for gaming only, just want to make sure I'm not beeing fooled by the motherboard manufacturer

Added a screenshot, with the values I'm getting.

 

[Jurrunio]

It's an overclock preset. Counts as overclock, but not tuned for your CPU specifically. Depending on the method it could also be using stupid loadline calibration or voltage settings which is dangerous.

[NorStereo]

1 hour ago, Jurrunio said:

It's an overclock preset. Counts as overclock, but not tuned for your CPU specifically. Depending on the method it could also be using stupid loadline calibration or voltage settings which is dangerous.

Thank you for the reply, do you have any recommendations on tutorials/videos/text guides that are worth a look at for a newbie,. on how to manually set up a safe overclock?

[Jurrunio]

18 minutes ago, NorStereo said:

Thank you for the reply, do you have any recommendations on tutorials/videos/text guides that are worth a look at for a newbie,. on how to manually set up a safe overclock?

Safe OC is about setting safe voltages and making sure it runs decent temperatures, so 1.35V core voltage at 80C or 1.4V 70C if you want to stay conservative.

 

You should have two multipliers available that's directly related to CPU cores, the core ratio (50 for 5GHz, not touching base clock) and uncore or ring (depending on the board) ratio (50 for 5GHz as well thogh you should aim for 3-5 lower than core ratio for best performance per voltage). These will determine the CPU's raw compute performance.

 

VCCSA, VCCIO and memory voltage are related to memory OC, that's for another time.