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so i want to overclock my 4690k to around 4.2 ghz, i dont know much about overclocking CPU's and i have watched a few vids about it on jays channel and linus's channel. what settings would i be looking at in the bios for a 4.2 ghz overclock. 

i know each CPU wont overclock the same but what should i aim for on things like the voltage??

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You could likely hit 4.2 on whatever your stock voltage is. I would guess 1.1-1.15v range. Set your core voltage to manual/static in the BIOS, change mult to x42, and see if it is stable.

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1 minute ago, runit3 said:

You could likely hit 4.2 on whatever your stock voltage is. I would guess 1.1-1.15v range. Set your core voltage to manual/static in the BIOS, change mult to x42, and see if it is stable.

so ill set the core voltage mode to manual and ill key in 1.1v and see if its stable  

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well i would use Intel extreme tuner and Aida 64, you can change your overclock with IET without doing anything in the bios and then save it to the bios when you have something stabile. 4.2Ghz is going to be easy to get stabile but when you have what you want run a 15+ hour stresstest to see if its stabile or not, my preferd program for doing that is Aida 64

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