Overclockers

[Flex]

This is still a very new area to me, and still need to learn loads!
Are there any over clockers on here?

Is there any advice when overclocking a CPU, GPU and RAM.
I am not talking about moving the slider left and right on Afterburner or pressing the Turbo button. And also not tearing the GPU apart and rewiring it. But just playing around with the Voltages and so on.

What are the pressure points I need to be aware of and look out for?
One thing I have noticed is that Pascal is definitely not very friendly overclock-able cards at all.

And one more thing, how many of you have destroyed a CPU or GPU due to overclocking?

[PsychoFish]

This is still a very new area to me, and still need to learn loads!
Are there any over clockers on here?

Is there any advice when overclocking a CPU, GPU and RAM.
I am not talking about moving the slider left and right on Afterburner or pressing the Turbo button. And also not tearing the GPU apart and rewiring it. But just playing around with the Voltages and so on.

What are the pressure points I need to be aware of and look out for?
One thing I have noticed is that Pascal is definitely not very friendly overclock-able cards at all.

And one more thing, how many of you have destroyed a CPU or GPU due to overclocking?

I have destroyed many CPUs and GPUs with my overclocking endeavors. Keep in mind that overclocking can sometimes depend on the exact individual chip and how well it was manufactured (not talking about different models, same model, same manufacturer). Be 100% your cooling is tough enough to handle the higher values. This is absolutely key.

Start by increasing values by ~10%, do a stress test and see if you get unpredictable results or a BSOD. Rinse and repeat until it fails. Then increase by ~1% - 5% until you get a failure again. Then just hit it back a notch at the last known good value. That will likely be your sweet spot.

Take the i5-4690K, can get between 4.2GHz and 4.6GHz DEPENDING on your chip. Voltage should be around 1.3V, I've seen guys hit 4.6GHz with 1.25V and I've seen guys struggle to get 4.5GHz with 1.3V.

In extreme conditions you can even hit the coveted 5GHz with an i5-4690K

[Flex]

I have destroyed many CPUs and GPUs with my overclocking endeavors. Keep in mind that overclocking can sometimes depend on the exact individual chip and how well it was manufactured (not talking about different models, same model, same manufacturer). Be 100% your cooling is tough enough to handle the higher values. This is absolutely key.

Start by increasing values by ~10%, do a stress test and see if you get unpredictable results or a BSOD. Rinse and repeat until it fails. Then increase by ~1% - 5% until you get a failure again. Then just hit it back a notch at the last known good value. That will likely be your sweet spot.

Take the i5-4690K, can get between 4.2GHz and 4.6GHz DEPENDING on your chip. Voltage should be around 1.3V, I've seen guys hit 4.6GHz with 1.25V and I've seen guys struggle to get 4.5GHz with 1.3V.

In extreme conditions you can even hit the coveted 5GHz with an i5-4690K

Yeah, I have heard you can get a good or bad chip. Lottery I guess.
I understand the clock and mem OC. But the Volts for example.
Does that differ from GPUs and CPUs? How will I know what the ideal Voltage is to play around with?

Yeah my cooling loop is definitely up to it. Hence why I want to play around with Over clocking a bit more

[Blazzok]

I usually use an article or a forum post from a reputable site (something like Tom's Hardware) as a guide. Or that is what I did with my previous i5 2500K (I haven't overclocked my i7 6700K yet).

They will tell you what you can hit without having to do any voltage tweaks (in rare cases you might have a bad part and it won't work) which is the best way to go, since you won't kill your CPU, you just need proper cooling.
When you start tweaking voltages, that is when the real danger starts, but it isn't something I've done.

I also OC'd my GTX 670 back in the day, but that was just using the sliders in MSI Afterburner

So really, I have no clue

[PsychoFish]

Try keeping an Intel CPU under 1.3V, it can go up to 1.5V, but anything over 1.3V and you're in LaLa Land.

[HavocXphere]

A mild overclock is easily within reach of anyone with a bit of patience.

Anything more & you get diminishing returns <<< Not worth it imo.

[PsychoFish]

A mild overclock is easily within reach of anyone with a bit of patience.

Anything more & you get diminishing returns <<< Not worth it imo.

Honestly, these days the juice is not really worth the squeeze. an Core i5-4670K overclocked to 4.6GHz will only give around a 10% increase in performance. Realistically the difference between 90FPS and 99FPS is negligible to me.

[HavocXphere]

Honestly, these days the juice is not really worth the squeeze. an Core i5-4670K overclocked to 4.6GHz will only give around a 10% increase in performance. Realistically the difference between 90FPS and 99FPS is negligible to me.

Don't entirely agree - that's a "free" 10%. The hours of fine tuning to get 12.45% is what's not worth it.

That said I tend to hold off with OC until the machine is near end of life. Don't want to fry it on day 5...but 1.5 years in when it's feeling a little long in the tooth then I'll OC it a bit & if I accidentally fry it then...well so be it.

Or used to. On a bloody laptop these days. So much fail.

Also found that it differs by component...CPU is much easier than GPU since those tend to run hot already.

[Dohc-WP]

i personally have never had a reason to overclock, the only cpu i ever overclocked was a pentium III 450 which i ran at 504 mhz, and why do you want to go through all the effort to overclock when 90% of cpu's and gpu's these days have auto clock frequency boost scalings. back in the day in 1997/8 with the initial celeron's it was understandable the gains where hugh but now i just dont see a point to be honest.

[mottamort]

Yea, I find the sweet spot of just a slight bump and then check that everything is stable is enough for me to feel like i'm getting more than I paid for. I gave the whole non-K /black edition overclocking a try and I seriously didn't find it was worth all the added effort of changing RAM timings etc etc. So yea, I'd say if you have an "easy-mode" overclock CPU then bump up multiplier until you find its limit, go back a bit and settle there, and theres nothing wrong with the Afterburner slider for GPU [MENTION=16362]Flex[/MENTION]

Will OC for boobs?