2700x Overclock Plan

[Sernefarian]

So I am planning a new computer build using a 2700x. Still wondering on an appropriate cooling solution for it, but have been thinking I'd go with an aio water cooler. Plan to eventually snag a 1080 or higher graphics card for the build, but in the interim I will be using one of the older generation graphics cards I have.

 

Mostly I am wondering how sound my plan for overclocking will be. First thing I will do once I get the tower to post, and finish OS, diagnostic, benchmark, and stress test installation will be to get into the bios and get ram to it's rated speed which as of the current moment in my build plan will be 3200 Mhz at 14-14-14-34 though I have found a kit that for one of my motherboard candidates will run 3466 at 16-16-16-36 timings according to QVLK, so I MIGHT go with that kit. Once I have established that profile works with the DDR4 my next step in that eventuality will be to bench the system cataloging scores across benchmark the battery if the  kits intial profile however does NOT work at the rated speed then I will attempt to tune for the clock speed manually until it is running stable.

 

Once benchmarking is finished I will begin on a progressive stock cpu clock undervolt in minimum mobo allowed increments until I find stability limit at stock clock.

 

Once I have accomplished that I plan to tighten the ram timings, and as necessary adjust ram voltages until I have established tightest stable timings at lowest voltage. I will save this profile in motherboard, and then will benchmark and stress test at this point. I will again catalog bench scores here. I will probably allow stress tests to run overnight here.

 

Accomplishing those steps I will begin work on increasing ram clock speed along with voltage with looser timings until I once again find tightest stable timing at lowest voltage for each RAM clock increment with a benching session and catalog of scores for each RAM clock above 3200(3466?) mhz with preference given to whichever timing+voltage combination of the ram overclock benchmarks the best across a run of 10 tests. For each increment this Timing+Voltage combination will be saved as a profile.

 

If I achieve higher than 3600MHZ(3800MHZ) DDR4 then I plan to begin minimal BCLK increments along with voltage(and potentially timing alterations) until I once again find stability through benchmark and stress suites keeping the highest benching stable again in a profile. Once I have found highest stable BCLK here in the overlclocking process I will FINALLY begin to overclock the cpu to the tune of the formula clock+ ->stable voltage -> bench -> clock+ -> stable voltage. If during this it seems absolutely necessary I may do MINOR alterations to the RAM settings in order to maintain a stable higher performing ram overclock.

 

At each of these steps I will be going through the arduous task of using the smallest voltage increments my chosen motherboard will allow. I will be using my current computer to make a spreadsheet of ALL used values, and storing bench statistics at each step. Once I have finally arrived at highest CPU+RAM OC stable combination with highest benchmarks I will once again save a profile or clear an under-performer in order to do so. I expect this entire process to last in the range of weeks to possibly into the second month of my new build.

 

The choice to begin the process with an initial processor stock clock undervolt is to, hopefully, train the system even if only slightly in preparation for later portions of the overclock process while simultaneously finding the minimum stress configuration(s) at each performance step.

 

Hope to get some input from you all on whether or not I am going to be doing this correctly.

[Sernefarian]

For disagnostic(monitoring prog) I am currently thinking I'l use HWiNFO 64.

 

For stressing I am so far going to include Memtest 64, HCIMemtest, OCCT, Prime95, LinX(maybe), Possibly others if anyone suggests them. Also will be using Furmark as a stress.

 

For Benchmarks I was thinking I'd go with the Passmark Suites, Cinebench, Kraken, PCMark, POV-Ray, 

 

And once I have acquired 1080 or higher performing graphics card then 3DMark, VRMark, and various other benchmarks.