Need help overclocking my CPU

[Lord Gaben]

This is my first PC build and I have never overclocked before, I watched the haswell overclocking guide by Linus, I still feel I need a bit more help though.

 

My specs are the following

 

 Corsair CX600M

 i7-4770k

16GB Kingston HyperX Blu 1600Mhz

ASUS Z97-PRO

ASUS GTX 770 DC2OC

1TB WD Blue

NH-D15 1 fan, (the second would not fit)

 

Some question I have are,

 

How long should I validate my final overclock?

How long should I validate my incremental steps?

What method should I take at overclocking (e.g quick and dirty first)?

Who much voltage is too much, when will the voltage start to bring the lifespan of the CPU down?

When I do validate what should I validate at the same time in AIDA64 (e.g CPU,FPU,Cache and GPU)?

 

And any recommendations you have

 

Thanks for the help, I am just a bit anxious I am going to kill my CPU, it was not cheap

 

EDIT: Also forgot to add, what increments in voltage should I go up and down?

[Octavialicious]

How long should I validate my final overclock?

 

just run prime95 for a couple of hours and if nothing happens, you should be good

[EarthboundHero]

Final, for 24-hours if you want to be really safe. Incremental 1-hour. Do a big just maybe 500MHz see if that's good then go up 100MHz or down 100MHz. Not sure about voltage for that CPU. CPU, FPU, Cache. I think this is mostly right. Someone correct me.

[Lord Gaben]

How long should I validate my final overclock?

 

just run prime95 for a couple of hours and if nothing happens, you should be good

From what I have heard with haswell CPU's it can override your max voltage set and ask for to much voltage

[Suffokation]

1. Stress the overclock for around 12 hours.

2. An hour.

3. 4.5GHz @ 1.4 Volts for the first time, if your cpu hits the deck at that, take it down by 100MHz steps.

4. You'll know how much voltage is too much when the CPU shits itself. Giving it too much a few times is more then okay, but do not make a habit of it

[Octavialicious]

From what I have heard with haswell CPU's it can override your max voltage set and ask for to much voltage

Never heard of that, but I'm an amd guy so I wouldn't know

[Lord Gaben]

Final, for 24-hours if you want to be really safe. Incremental 1-hour. Do a big just maybe 500MHz see if that's good then go up 100MHz or down 100MHz. Not sure about voltage for that CPU. CPU, FPU, Cache. I think this is mostly right. Someone correct me.

Should I also test the GPU in the stress test, to give me a more realistic tempurature while gaming?

[EarthboundHero]

Should I also test the GPU in the stress test, to give me a more realistic tempurature while gaming?

You can, it won't hurt anything if you don't. If you really want to do a good stress test I recommend playing your most intensive game.

[Lord Gaben]

You can, it won't hurt anything if you don't. If you really want to do a good stress test I recommend playing your most intensive game.

Yeah I was thinking of playing some battlefield 4 after doing the last test

[EarthboundHero]

Yeah I was thinking of playing some battlefield 4 after doing the last test

No multiplayer though. You don't want to leave your team in case of a crash.

[Lord Gaben]

Final, for 24-hours if you want to be really safe. Incremental 1-hour. Do a big just maybe 500MHz see if that's good then go up 100MHz or down 100MHz. Not sure about voltage for that CPU. CPU, FPU, Cache. I think this is mostly right. Someone correct me.

24 hours for the final test sound quite long, how long would you think would be resnoably good but not over the top

[Lord Gaben]

No multiplayer though. You don't want to leave your team in case of a crash.

lol, yeah

[EarthboundHero]

24 hours for the final test sound quite long, how long would you think would be resnoably good but not over the top

Maybe 3-4 at least. Then play an intensive game for a normal session length. Or you can run stability tests for just however long you normally play games for.

[Lord Gaben]

Maybe 3-4 at least. Then play an intensive game for a normal session length. Or you can run stability tests for just however long you normally play games for.

OK 6 hours it is then I guess

[MLG Doge]

Oh Lord, Gaben

 

1.Make sure windows and drivers are up to date

2. Make sure BIOS is up to date

3. Get into BIOS

4.Turn off adaptive voltage

5. increase multiplier (from e.g 35 to 36)

5.Test the overclock (not a huge jump but  test anyway) Test using Intel Burn test, HWmoniter, CPU-Z and Prime95

6.Repeat, If you get blue screens, increase voltage by0.05

[Laurysss]

haha hours? I couldnt stand 1min lol If my clock is too  high prime95 says failed in the first 20 secs. I just use my computer normally and if it crashes i go down.

[Lord Gaben]

Started overclocking, currently stress testing at 4.2Ghz on 1.2v 

 

By what Linus recommended doing I started at 4.6Ghz on 1.2v and went down by 1x until it could boot and was able to boot at 4.2Ghz

[Lord Gaben]

I also used Aida64 not Prime95 as Linus recommend in this video

[Lord Gaben]

4.2ghz at 1.2v was not stable and 4.1 at 1.2v was not, decided not to overclock it is not worth it at only gaining 100mhz, decided to just run at stock settings