Overclocking help needed!

SloppyJostler · February 10, 2015

So I recently built myself a gaming pc, which I am going to eventually build myself a few websites ect and needed a good pc to work with my specs are as follows:

Asus Rampage extreme iv black edition

Intel i7 4930k 2011 extreme

Kingston hyperx beast 32gb 2400

amd r9 295x2

Alphacool water cooling kit

corsair ax1200i

windows 7 64 bit

I managed to finish this build I then installed windows and can run everything as stock from what I can see, so the problem is Itry overclock using existing profiles in the rampage bios and it ends up not booting, how do I overclock my 4930k to a good stable speed with this setup so it will boot and be faster than stock and stable? secondly my ram is set to 1600mhz in bios I try to change this and when i change it the same thing happens system crashes I have to reset bios and when it posts again to the first screen error message overclock has failed appears. Any help or setting suggestions would be welcome and many thanks in advance for those who reply.

hogfather · February 10, 2015

dont use the profiles. make small incremental adjustments manually. start with a manual voltage of 1.35 and slowly (and incrementally) increase the clock multiplier

don't worry about the ram for now - you probably will need to give it some extra voltage, but dont go trying to OC both ram and cpu at the same time. do the cpu first.

SloppyJostler · February 10, 2015

Ok I will try this, somehow I have the cpu running from 3.4 to 3.9 now and the ram is running at 2133, could I have had something set in bios which was conflicting with the overclock making it not boot or give errors? it seems to be running now at higher speeds so this tells me that there is nothing wrong with the hardware in my machine, thanks for the reply

TophatFire · February 10, 2015

The Asus AI Suite has a built-in automated overclocking tool that is great for finding a starting point at least. Why not start with that?

http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/151477-asus-noob-ai-suite-3-ocing/

runit3 · February 11, 2015

1) set the XMP profile for the RAM

2) set voltage to manual, enter:

vcore: 1.275v

VCCIN: 1.875v

3) set multiplier:

Core: all matching @ x43, do not use per core optimization or any other funky settings

If that boots and the system is stable in XTU/AIDA64, go from there. If you feel like OCing cache do that after you find a stable core clock.

SloppyJostler · February 11, 2015

I shall try these suggestions many thanks for the replys, I have a different problem at the moment and that is that my gpu is playing games very badly and choppy, I have a amd r9 295x2 with a 4k, should play games like watchdog and call of duty easily and very smooth but it chops more than a blender on full speed.