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Manual Overclocking Noob, Anyone know any good tutorials?

Hello, so I recently finished my new (overkill) PC, and I really wish I had bought Ryzen. Skipping past the long story how I ended up with a 7700K, I would like to finally get into overclocking. Up until now I had only used the Asus built in auto-overclocking feature to get my CPU overclock, and for the GPU I can manage a little bit on my own. My biggest issue is I don't know what voltages to tweak to do it manual for either the CPU or GPU. So I was hoping some of you might know where to point me for tutorials on how to overclock CPUs and GPUs(video preferably, but good with written instruction too for reference). The more details and more focusing on what needs done and why the better. Also if you have any advice for a beginner at this, I am very open to it.

 

My Full Build: https://pcpartpicker.com/list/qhnq8K

Summary:

  • i7-7700k (auto-overclocking gets a stable 4.8GHz and can get an almost stable 4.9GHz)
  • NZXT Kraken X62 Liquid Cooler (280 Radiator, I have 2 Corsair ML140 fans on it also)
  • Asus Maximus IX Hero Motherboard
  • G.Skill Trident Z RGB 32GB DDR4-2400 (4x8GB) Cas Latency 15
  • Boot Drive: Samsung 960 Evo 1TB M.2 NVMe SSD
  • EVGA GTX 1080 Ti FTW3 ICX (I haven't actually overclocked this yet since I just got it)
  • EVGA SuperNOVA G3 850W 80+ Gold PSU (I have this high wattage since I plan to SLI 1080 Tis later)
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I know you might give me funny looks, but this was literally all I looked at to overclock the 7700k. I'm sitting at a stable 5GHz OC, but if I'm wrong, please do correct me!

 

 

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