First attempt at overclocking. Looking for a safe stable boost.

[TheFluffyDog]

Hello community; this is Siv HD! and this is Fluffy's first overclock attempt!

No but seriously, just got my first intel processor, going from being one of those guys who relies on "that comuter savy friend" to the guy who can do it himself.

Here's the thing, got an i5-4670k and i have it clocked to 4.4GHz at 1.25V. Temps no higher than one 60C spike during stress test. Im stable and have been running this for 2 days playing games and stuff.

However, I still dont know what ring bus frequens is and i left it alone. so thats at the stock numbers. Does that hold back my core clock? does it limit the performance of my cpu? like What is it used for anyway?

 

[Eximo]

There are marginal benefits to increasing the ring clock and a few other optimizations.

My favorite guide, goes into extreme detail if you want to spend the time.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1401976/the-gigabyte-z87-haswell-overclocking-oc-guide