OverClocking Help

[AliceRae96]

Hello Guys and Gals,

 

I am wanting some help with overclocking my system. I understand it is not always the best thing to do but I would like to have the skill set at least for the future if I ever need it. You will find a PC Part Picker to this post at the end for specific components. With this Overclock I would like to over clock the GPU and CPU (as far as I understand thou without the K version of my CPU I wont be able to do that).

 

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/BJXByf

 

 

[iRileyx]

You're correct that you can't overclock your CPU.

 

[AliceRae96]

1 minute ago, RKRiley said:

You're correct that you can't overclock your CPU.

 

Yea I was 99% sure I wouldnt be able to but always like to double check my information haha

[LatinoPotato]

What do you want to overclock just your GPU?

[LatinoPotato]

2 minutes ago, RKRiley said:

You're correct that you can't overclock your CPU.

 

I thought you could OC a non K chip just intel doesn't have a warranty for it if you do and it breaks

[Petoovee]

I believe it's only the multiplier that is locked on the non-K Intels. So if you really want you can go for the base clock increase. Wrecked my previous build when I increased that by 10% though, while I got my multiplier from 36 to 48 easily.

 

Overclocking GPUs ain't worth it IMO. You'd need a quality card of the GPU, at which case you might aswell just buy a cheaper card of a better model.

 

My Asus STRIX 285 gave me crashes on BF1 when I increased voltage and clock speed by 7%. Negligible gain.

[AliceRae96]

2 minutes ago, LatinoPotato said:

What do you want to overclock just your GPU?

Yea, and not necessarily because I need to but I want to expand my abilities with PC's as I want to start building custom stuff for friends and family but I do not have the fainest clue on how to overclock. And while I get it isn't really that big of a deal if I want to start doing builds I need to know how to do everything.

[LatinoPotato]

4 minutes ago, monster0429 said:

Yea, and not necessarily because I need to but I want to expand my abilities with PC's as I want to start building custom stuff for friends and family but I do not have the fainest clue on how to overclock. And while I get it isn't really that big of a deal if I want to start doing builds I need to know how to do everything.

Well overclocking your GPU is very very simple. EVGA, MSI, Zotac, etc. Pretty much all have overclocking tools on there website that you can download and there are tons of tutorials on YouTube on how to overclock GPU's it's just sliders and finding a good balance between noise, heat, and performance.

[Petoovee]

Find a cheap computer to do it on. Not such a fine build.

 

You surely have an old computer laying around? Or maybe test on your fathers build instead?

 

Generally, if you're not sure of the capabilities of your build, increase voltage and multiplier one step at a time untill you either gain unacceptable amounts of heat (due to too high voltage) or start crashing (waaay to much voltage, crying motherboard, too little voltage)

 

When you find the maximum voltage you feel safe going with increase the multiplier untill the computer becomes unstable. Then lower multiplier by two steps and voltage by one.

 

Unless your motherboard fails, this should give you the highest possible speed your CPU can handle, if it had multipliers.

 

Then you have the like of just increasing the Intel Turboboost multipliers instead, so that you can reduce heat and strain on your CPU while also keeping the speed in hand, should you need it.

 

Then you have C-States, which is really nice. From what I understood it allows your CPU to step down in clock more than just the regular two steps of 50%->100%

[nikolaizombie1]

9 minutes ago, Petoovee said:

I believe it's only the multiplier that is locked on the non-K Intels. So if you really want you can go for the base clock increase. Wrecked my previous build when I increased that by 10% though, while I got my multiplier from 36 to 48 easily.

 

Overclocking GPUs ain't worth it IMO. You'd need a quality card of the GPU, at which case you might aswell just buy a cheaper card of a better model.

 

My Asus STRIX 285 gave me crashes on BF1 when I increased voltage and clock speed by 7%. Negligible gain.

However, BLK overclocks can tamper with other clocks in the system. So you have to be very careful with that

[AliceRae96]

5 minutes ago, LatinoPotato said:

Well overclocking your GPU is very very simple. EVGA, MSI, Zotac, etc. Pretty much all have overclocking tools on there website that you can download and there are tons of tutorials on YouTube on how to overclock GPU's it's just sliders and finding a good balance between noise, heat, and performance.

Oh so use MSI Afterburnner? I always though people used other ways of doing it. 

[AliceRae96]

5 minutes ago, Petoovee said:

Find a cheap computer to do it on. Not such a fine build.

 

You surely have an old computer laying around? Or maybe test on your fathers build instead?

 

Generally, if you're not sure of the capabilities of your build, increase voltage and multiplier one step at a time untill you either gain unacceptable amounts of heat (due to too high voltage) or start crashing (waaay to much voltage, crying motherboard, too little voltage)

I absolutely do have an old computer to mess around on before I touch anything worth anything. And good advice. My questions is assuming the worse where I go to high is it possible to reset to defaults or am I screwed?

[LatinoPotato]

1 minute ago, monster0429 said:

Oh so use MSI Afterburnner? I always though people used other ways of doing it. 

No GPU overclocking is very straight forward. Adjust some sliders. But don't go crazy because there is a way to do it. YouTube has a lot of tutorials. Basically adjust sliders and play your game. if it crashes it's not a stable OC

[Petoovee]

7 minutes ago, monster0429 said:

I absolutely do have an old computer to mess around on before I touch anything worth anything. And good advice. My questions is assuming the worse where I go to high is it possible to reset to defaults or am I screwed?

Depends. When I damaged my previous build it went into a restart-loop. Restarting about four-five times before I decided to pull the plug.

Shortening the CMOS pins, or pressing the reset CMOS button, should you have such fine utilities on-board will reset your BIOS, as well as just pulling out the CMOS battery.

By the time I did that, my computer never started on the first try again.

 

You shouldn't run into such problems unless you decide to edit the base clocks, which I wouldn't do even on my Maximus.

 

If you notice that your computer is shutting off twice or thrice before it reaches BIOS, I'd recommend turning it off so it can cool off a bit, maybe even touching the northbridge, RAM, southbridge and any other heatsinks you feel safe touching. Grounding yourself throughly first.

[Petoovee]

I'm no master overclocker by any means so if someone could correct me I'd be really glad. Maybe saves me a couple bucks one day.

 

And for the record, overclocking happens on the overclockers own risk

[AliceRae96]

11 minutes ago, Petoovee said:

Depends. When I damaged my previous build it went into a restart-loop. Restarting about four-five times before I decided to pull the plug.

Shortening the CMOS pins, or pressing the reset CMOS button, should you have such fine utilities on-board will reset your BIOS, as well as just pulling out the CMOS battery.

By the time I did that, my computer never started on the first try again.

 

You shouldn't run into such problems unless you decide to edit the base clocks, which I wouldn't do even on my Maximus.

 

If you notice that your computer is shutting off twice or thrice before it reaches BIOS, I'd recommend turning it off so it can cool off a bit, maybe even touching the northbridge, RAM, southbridge and any other heatsinks you feel safe touching. Grounding yourself throughly first.

This is actually good information to add to other advice above thanks

[Petoovee]

Other indirect "overclocks" you could do for people could also be blowing the computer out and replacing thermal paste with some high grade paste like the NT H1.

 

Solved overheating problems for a friend of mine. The included paste from the intel cooler had dried out by the time the manufacturers applied it or something. Either way it was obvious only a third of his CPU was getting cooled.

 

Lowered his temps by >20C that day.

 

I say overclock mostly because it let's the turboboost kick in and such. In that case even preventing downclocking.

 

Using a syringe and adding a drop of oil (wouldn't want the fan to throw it around in the case when you close it) to the age-old fans they have, with the fan out of the computer when it spins up the first 30 minutes. Can undo things like loudness and vibrations. Though by this stage they should be looking for new ones. Maybe remove hair and dust from the brushes while you're at it.

This you can generally do by stabbing it gently into the sticker on the back. Or if you dont have a syringe, remove the sticker which should reveal a rubber seal which leads into the motor. I've done that a couple times and the worst that happened was that it threw oil on me. Maybe it can shorten the fan or something but I never experienced it.

 

General maintenence of anything you can think of really.