i5 4690K Overclocking

[JaackPricee]

I have tried numerous times to Overclock my CPU but I mess up everytime and something goes wrong. Is there a safe setting to overclock a i5 4690K to without the pain of benchmarking for the next 24 hours?

 

Thank you

[79wjd]

Aida 64 and HWMonitor to stress test and monitor temps 

 

Set the voltage to 1.30v and then raise the multiplier little by little until you find something unstable. Once you've found the highest stable multiplier, try lowering the voltage little by little. After each change run Aida 64 for 30~ minutes. When you think you've found the highest multiliper with the lowest voltage, then run Aida 64 for 12-24 hours. 

 

So long as temps are under 80ºc~ while running Aida 64 you're good. 

[Oshino Shinobu]

Try just going up by small amounts at a time, doing small stress tests with Aida64 each time. When you get to a point you're happy with, do a longer stress test and monitor the temps. 

[WinNut]

Go up slightly, and when you find a point you're comfortable with run a stress test overnight and enable temperature monitoring if possible (some monitoring programs will log into Excel).

[Najuno]

A good and stable OC takes time and should be done step by step. To dial in a CPU and/or a GPU is not a matter of 5 minutes when you do it the first time. Of course you need to have the right CPU, chipset and sufficient cooling solution.

 

I personally use the full version of AIDA64 extreme, because I do a lot of OCing. I can only recommend this software. It's also very good to monitor temps of all temp sensors in your rig.

[I/O]

A good and stable OC takes time and should be done step by step. To dial in a CPU and/or a GPU is not a matter of 5 minutes when you do it the first time. Of course you need to have the right CPU, chipset and sufficient cooling solution.

 

I personally use the full version of AIDA64 extreme, because I do a lot of OCing. I can only recommend this software. It's also very good to monitor temps of all temp sensors in your rig.

OCing is so fool proof and easy. Just up the Muti on the CPU and move the sliders to the right in Msi Afterburner LOL it's literally that easy now in days. This is no longer the early 2000s when you needed a calculator and note pad to make a sucsessful OC LOL the UEFI/BIOS now takes care of everything for you. I literally OCed my CPU and GPU in under a minute.

[harrynowl]

Try a multiplier of 47 and 1.3V, if it passes stressing for 1 hour try 4.8, if it fails go back to 4.7 and try 4 hours, if it fails go to 4.6.

[JaackPricee]

Thank you all for your answers, looks like im going to have to dedicate a weekend to this