Any tips on overclocking a cpu?

[blackmalicious]

I Have intel i5 4690k i finished with overclocked my gpu im happy with it gtx 970 ssc (+120,+300)

FPS:

62.4

Score:

1571

Min FPS:

14.0

Max FPS:

132.1

 

Any tips like which programs and what to do?

[Oshino Shinobu]

Increase the clock in small increments. Do a quick stress test for each time you up the speed. If it starts crashing, or you get issues, back off the clockspeed or adjust the voltage slightly. Once you're happy with a speed, do a longer stress test to ensure it's stable and make sure temps are okay.

 

Use something like Aida64 (not Prim95) for stress testing. Unigine Valley and Heaven can be good for testing gaming loads, and Firestrike is good for testing GPU and CPU OC stability.

 

You could use something like Cinebench for benchmarking

[mata-pombos]

[blackmalicious]

Increase the clock in small increments. Do a quick stress test for each time you up the speed. If it starts crashing, or you get issues, back off the clockspeed or adjust the voltage slightly. Once you're happy with a speed, do a longer stress test to ensure it's stable and make sure temps are okay.

 

Use something like Aida64 (not Prim95) for stress testing. Unigine Valley and Heaven can be good for testing gaming loads, and Firestrike is good for testing GPU and CPU OC stability.

 

You could use something like Cinebench for benchmarking

Alright but which program to overclock the cpu?

[blackmalicious]

Thanks

[Light-Yagami]

just be caerfull not to cross that 3.5 gb memory line. i've seen many cases where the memory isn't big enough and the gpu still have power to speare. so there's that. just watch out for that. that's all

[Oshino Shinobu]

Alright but which program to overclock the cpu?

You overclock in the BIOS, not using software (well, the BIOS is technically software, but you get what I mean)

[blackmalicious]

just be caerfull not to cross that 3.5 gb memory line. i've seen many cases where the memory isn't big enough and the gpu still have power to speare. so there's that. just watch out for that. that's all

Thanks for the heads up

[blackmalicious]

You overclock in the BIOS, not using software (well, the BIOS is technically software, but you get what I mean)

Oh right (first time doing this so sorry)