How to overclock a cpu?

[adzygamer15]

hey all, i have a asus z370-a prime mbd and i was looking to overclock my new i5 8600k, i'm not sure if my mbd comes with auto overclocking software or if anyone can give me a good oc for my cpu i can manually put in, i have a dark rock pro 3 so i reckon i could get to 5ghz but if i pushed it that far would it damage it or what exactly would happen?

Cheers All 

[sazrocks]

Do some research and watch some youtube tutorials. Doing anything related to overclocking has a significant chance of killing your cpu if you have no idea what you are doing. Understand the concepts of heat, voltage, frequency, and current (strangely this one is often left out).

[aezakmi]

Unless you have a high end graphics card or a SLI/cross config there's no need to overclock that CPU right now.

If it performs good don't touch it, think about OC when the CPU starts bottlenecking the graphics card or if you use certain programs that benefit from the raw IPC increase that comes with ocing

[Spotty]

19 minutes ago, adzygamer15 said:

hey all, i have a asus z370-a prime mbd and i was looking to overclock my new i5 8600k, i'm not sure if my mbd comes with auto overclocking software or if anyone can give me a good oc for my cpu i can manually put in, i have a dark rock pro 3 so i reckon i could get to 5ghz but if i pushed it that far would it damage it or what exactly would happen?

Try taking some baby steps first before trying to go straight from 3.6Ghz to 5Ghz.

Most modern Asus motherboards come with auto overclocking built in to the BIOS. Switch your BIOS in to simple mode and it will likely have an option for a couple of different CPU settings such as "Eco, Normal, Extreme" or something similar.
 

I'd recommend going in to the BIOS and making small, basic changes to achieve an overclock. Slightly increase the base clock multiplier to get a few hundred extra MHz. Try going from 3.6Ghz base frequency to 4GHz. Then you can get familiar with the other processes involved in overclocking such as stress tests, running benchmarks and monitoring thermals. When you're comfortable with the overclock you have, you can go back in to the BIOS and try and increase it slightly again. This time go for 4.1GHz and do the benchmarks and stress tests. Keep repeating this process, going slightly higher each time. Eventually you will hit a point where your overclock will become unstable at its default voltages and stress tests will start to fail, you'll see BSODs, or even just complete shut downs. When you start running in to these problems you can look in to more advanced overclocking with adjusting voltages and the like.

[DarkSmith2]

same principle. Its easy.