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Increase volatage in 0.125 increments.

Stress test for 5 minutes. Once you're happy with your overclock, run a stress test for an hour with aida64. (not prime95)

Then have fun. You won't get very far with air coolers.

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     So I'm almost sure that this has been answered many times, but after about 10 minutes in this forum, I couldn't find my answer.

Basically, I just got a new mobo (ASRock fm2a78m pro4) and a new cpu (athlon x4 860k). And I've decided to overclock it. I've read articles about overclocking and increasing stability with overvolting, but there were never specific numbers about overvolting. So my question is - by how much should I marginally increase the voltage, and then do a stress test for an hour or so? FYI, the stock multiplier is 3.7 ghz, I would like to get around 4.1 - 4.2 ghz, nothing major, since I haven't yet gotten my cooler master hyper 212 evo, so I cant overvolt too much.

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Don't overclock until you get your 212

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Increase volatage in 0.125 increments.

Stress test for 5 minutes. Once you're happy with your overclock, run a stress test for an hour with aida64. (not prime95)

Then have fun. You won't get very far with air coolers.

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Increase volatage in 0.125 increments.

Stress test for 5 minutes. Once you're happy with your overclock, run a stress test for an hour with aida64. (not prime95)

Then have fun. You won't get very far with air coolers.

 

I know I'm not OP, but why not prime95? Also are you suggesting to use prime95 or AIDA64 for the 5min stress test?

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I know I'm not OP, but why not prime95? Also are you suggesting to use prime95 or AIDA64 for the 5min stress test?

Primo95 can cause damage by overvolting the CPU itself and it's a super old program made for super old processors.

Yes use AIDA64 for the 5 minute stress tests.

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Primo95 can cause damage by overvolting the CPU itself and it's a super old program made for super old processors.

Yes use AIDA64 for the 5 minute stress tests.

 

Thanks, I've been meaning to tweak my OC more this month so I'll keep this in mind! :) b

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   , I would like to get around 4.1 - 4.2 ghz, nothing major, since I haven't yet gotten my cooler master hyper 212 evo, so I cant overvolt too much.

you can't overclock at all with the boxed heatsink you'll fry your CPU...wait till you get an aftermarket CPU heatsink before you try tweaking anything!

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