overclock Overclocking a Core i7-2600K

[grimmreaper247]

Hello there.

 

I want to overclock my dinosoar CPU (Core i7-2600K) from 3.4ghz all the way up to 4.0ghz. Its a 5 year old CPU and obviously waaaaay out of its waranty.

 

Specs:

☻CPU: Core i7-2600K @ 3.4ghz

☻Motherboard: Gigabyte Z68Xp_UD3

☻Cooling: Cooler master 120mm Hyper 212X

☻Case: Corsair obsidian 450D (3, 120mm fans and 3, 140mm fans)

☻GPU: GTX 960 Gaming 2gb (Factory overclocked)

☻RAM: 16GB 

Im guessing that the cooling in my case is relativly good cus the fans on my GPU are most of the time off (Twin frozer V cooler).

 

So to get to the point i felt like my CPU was bottlenecking my GPU, and also cus its such an old beast i want to overclock cus when i do gaming its mostly running at 100% and my PC freezes for like 1 second every 1-3 minutes on heavy games like GTA V or Arma 3. Sofar all i did is i went into the BIOS of this motherboard and went over to where you can clock things on this motherboard, and all i did was up the CPU Clock Ratio from 34x up to 40x. So i didnt touch any voltages mainly cus idk how to cus all it shows there is amps and watts, but also idk how much volts i would set that up to.

So all i am asking, is it a problem if i only upped the CPU Clock Ratio and touched nothing else, and how would i actually properly overclock to 4ghz. Like what is the best profile considering uping the turbo ratio and the voltage and all that other what not and thingi's.

 

Thank you for reading and hopefully helping and sorry for any misunderstanding on this book.

[Skiiwee29]

You likely wont be able to keep it cool enough with a Hyper 212x at 4 gig. 

 

If all you did was up the clock ratio to 40 and you can boot into windows and its running at 4gig without any issues, then you will be fine. Though I would still recommend upgrading your cooling solution for overclocking. 

[Sauron]

If your cpu is running at 100% and the computer freezes during games you may have a different problem. I never had that sort of issue.

 

You should only touch voltage if the cpu is not stable, otherwise you should leave it as close to stock as possible.

[Gonio]

You can see how far you get, but for 4 GHz you most likely will have to up the voltage anyway.

[grimmreaper247]

Alright thank you guys. I think i'm just gonna leave it on how i did it by only only upping the CPU Clock Ratio to 40, and just keep my eye on CPUID for any heating issues. When it comes to voltage i have noooo idea. I'm gonna go do a 3D mark test and try and stress out the CPU and see how far i get.

 

Thanks.

[Petoovee]

I've been running my 3750k at 4.6GHz hours at end staying at ~60C on a 212 EVO. Sure you dont have some sort of auto clock on your mobo?