Overclocking an i7 4770k

[MrVonGrumble]

Hello, I have watched over 20 videos in the past 2 days on how to get an good overclock manually. I do understand that my cpu is sort of the 'luck of the draw' but i really wanted to get around 4.2 or 4.3 On a h100i. I have tried to use oc genie 4 to automatically do it for me but i keeps failing for some reason. Saying that it has failed and restoring to previous settings. So today I looked at multiple guides on how to manually overclock the i7 4770k  and tried it blue screened like three times is this bad for my chip? I had the cpu core voltage to 1.3 ran prime95 and it blue screened i don't know what the other voltages mean and have no idea what to tweak. So then i gave up and reset it to 3.5 stock. This is becasue all these guides say tweak these settings and you dont know what the bloody tweak any assistance or guides i can use which help me understand what i am tweaking? My motherboard is an msi z97 g43. 

Cheers, 

[Necrodead]

Don't use prime 95, Aida 64 is a better program for haswell stability testing. Prime 95 does weird things with your voltage.

Also you probably want to stop at about 1.25v on your CPU. You should set your ram voltage to the voltage it is rated for (look on the ram sticker and if its 1.5v then make sure your ram voltage is set to that in the UEFI BIOS.) After that set your CPU voltage to 1.25v and make sure your BCLK(?)bus speed is 100mhz(the default) and then set your multiplier to something like 43(4.3ghz) if thats what you want. Then if you can boot (about 50% of haswell can boot to 4.5ghz on 1.25v) so 4.3 isn't that hard to get, you should be able to do it. after that test with Aida64 for stability.

If its stable, and temps stay at <90C then you are good to start lowering your voltages on the CPU until it becomes unstable. At that point go to your last stable voltage and have fun being overclocked! I also recommend you save your default bios and then all your overclocks in your 'bios profiles' or whatever MSI calls theirs.

[JustCallMeVlad]

1.30v vcore

46X multi

1.9v cpu input voltage

[Statecat]

Hello, I have watched over 20 videos in the past 2 days on how to get an good overclock manually. I do understand that my cpu is sort of the 'luck of the draw' but i really wanted to get around 4.2 or 4.3 On a h100i. I have tried to use oc genie 4 to automatically do it for me but i keeps failing for some reason. Saying that it has failed and restoring to previous settings. So today I looked at multiple guides on how to manually overclock the i7 4770k and tried it blue screened like three times is this bad for my chip? I had the cpu core voltage to 1.3 ran prime95 and it blue screened i don't know what the other voltages mean and have no idea what to tweak. So then i gave up and reset it to 3.5 stock. This is becasue all these guides say tweak these settings and you dont know what the bloody tweak any assistance or guides i can use which help me understand what i am tweaking? My motherboard is an msi z97 g43.

Cheers,

Prime 95 is Satan. Do not use it. Use Asus real bench or Aida64 like many of the other guys say. An H100i is a solid AIO but it is old, so keep that in mind that it is outclassed by many other AIOs. Also keep in mind the 4770k has issues with overheating due to deteriorating thermal paste under the lid. I don't recommend delidding, but people get crazy better temps when they do and replace that awful thermal paste.

[MrVonGrumble]

Ok guys cheers what about the the IO and SA settings and the ring voltages ?