First Time Overclocking Help

[Nvoltis]

Hello community of LinusTechTips! It's been quite awhile since I've been on here, 6 months to be precise. Anyway, in a few weeks my PC will be about a year old and I think it's about time I overclock my GPU to wear it out until I save enough for a better card which will be most likely the 900 series. I opened up MSI Afterburner and Core Temp and I have no idea were to go from here... Excuse me if I'm a noob at overclocking but we all got to start somewhere. Providing the specifications below, I need some suggestions on what to increase in MSI Afterburner.

 

These are my current settings for MSI Afterburner and my PC temperature running at idle. (Yes I know I need to upgrade my cooler, and GPU eventually): http://i.imgur.com/GznDhcw.png

 

Specifications

CPU: Intel Core i5-4690K 3.5GHz Quad-Core Processor

MOBO: MSI Z97-GAMING 5 ATX LGA1150

GPU: MSI GeForce GTX 770 2GB TWIN FROZR

PSU: EVGA 850W ATX12V / EPS12V

Cooler: Stock (Since my Hyper 212 EVO Broke)

Memory: G.Skill Ripjaws X Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Black 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM

Case: NZXT H440 (Black/Red) ATX Mid Tower

 

I'd appreciate it if no one here trolls, I just need a little extra "UMPH!" from my PC currently.

 

Thanks for the help guys, I looked at some guides and I am completely lost already - including the database...

[Vivilacqua1]

31c at idle is not bad, but why do you want to "Wear out your card"?  Overclocking is meant to give a bit of a boost, not to kill your card

 

And for the overclocking bit, just slide the clock speed bar a bit at a time and run a test ( I use unigene heaven), and when you can go as high as your temps allow or as high as you can without artifacting/crashes, then you're god!

[Vivilacqua1]

-sniparoo-

Also, follow your posts you dummy!

[Nvoltis]

31c at idle is not bad, but why do you want to "Wear out your card"?  Overclocking is meant to give a bit of a boost, not to kill your card

 

And for the overclocking bit, just slide the clock speed bar a bit at a time and run a test ( I use unigene heaven), and when you can go as high as your temps allow or as high as you can without artifacting/crashes, then you're god!

 

Oops! Been so long I forgot, followed. Not neccessarily wear out my card, but just give it a small boost for the on coming months until I get a new GPU. You know what I mean.

 

Alright, I'll give it a shot, by how many intervals? And what do I slide up?

[Vivilacqua1]

Oops! Been so long I forgot, followed. Not neccessarily wear out my card, but just give it a small boost for the on coming months until I get a new GPU. You know what I mean.

 

Alright, I'll give it a shot, by how many intervals? And what do I slide up?

Well my afterburner has a different skin, but just slide up the core clock 1Ghz (1000Mhz) to start off with then move on to 10 increments once you get past 1 GHz

 

[Nvoltis]

Well my afterburner has a different skin, but just slide up the core clock 1Ghz (1000Mhz) to start off with then move on to 10 increments once you get past 1 GHz

 

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Core clock only goes up to 1 GHz - also I switched to your skin as it tells me ALOT more information. So I just increase from 10 MHz from here until I hit 40(ish) temperatures at idle?

[Vivilacqua1]

that's just what my 290 hits, test some load on it then see your temps.

Core clock only goes up to 1 GHz - also I switched to your skin as it tells me ALOT more information. So I just increase from 10 MHz from here until I hit 40(ish) temperatures at idle?

[Vivilacqua1]

Imma sleep now, but ill be here in the morning for questions.

[Nvoltis]

Imma sleep now, but ill be here in the morning for questions.

 

For sure! Thanks for the help, I'll let you know the results tomorrow If I don't break anything.