[SOLVED] i7 9700k OC Questions and Concerns

[elderdrake]

I will attach a video describing in detail a bit more what I am asking as well as show the results being reported by some hardware monitoring apps but this is the first time I have OC'd a system and as I say in the video, I am not new to PCs but I absolutely am when it comes to OC'ing and I want to make sure no warning flags are popping up. Freshly built system and before I start gaming or stress testing I want to be careful as can be. I would greatly appreciate any pointer you gents may have and below will first be the video I just made and following it the video I followed to achieve what you see in the video.

My Video:

View: https://youtu.be/Z3DrSGxmTQI


Video I followed:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8rY4TrcDXg


Thank you in advance again for any and all replies.

UPDATE: Quickly, my apologies for the low volume on my video and YouTube is still processing it from SD to HD but it should be a bit more crisp here soon. Also I tried to launch a game and the system froze. I used the recommended stock settings in the EZ screen of the Gigabyte BIOS and the game launched and I am seeing reported clock speeds around 4.6-4.7 and I have X.M.P enabled for Profile 1. No issues now so I am really thinking I should stick to those recommended settings unless anyone has any insight on anything I should watch.

 

[bmockeg]

I will attach a video describing in detail a bit more what I am asking as well as show the results being reported by some hardware monitoring apps but this is the first time I have OC'd a system and as I say in the video, I am not new to PCs but I absolutely am when it comes to OC'ing and I want to make sure no warning flags are popping up. Freshly built system and before I start gaming or stress testing I want to be careful as can be. I would greatly appreciate any pointer you gents may have and below will first be the video I just made and following it the video I followed to achieve what you see in the video.

My Video:

View: https://youtu.be/Z3DrSGxmTQI


Video I followed:

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8rY4TrcDXg


Thank you in advance again for any and all replies.

UPDATE: Quickly, my apologies for the low volume on my video and YouTube is still processing it from SD to HD but it should be a bit more crisp here soon. Also I tried to launch a game and the system froze. I used the recommended stock settings in the EZ screen of the Gigabyte BIOS and the game launched and I am seeing reported clock speeds around 4.6-4.7 and I have X.M.P enabled for Profile 1. No issues now so I am really thinking I should stick to those recommended settings unless anyone has any insight on anything I should watch.

Overclocking takes hours of fine tuning if you really want to do that. In the end, you’ll get a COUPLE FPS more but nothing drastic. Some, like me, do it just because we can and not because of any need. If you have a solid system it will be just fine on stock settings. If you have a good cooling solution you could just try enabling MCE.

 

[elderdrake]

Overclocking takes hours of fine tuning if you really want to do that. In the end, you’ll get a COUPLE FPS more but nothing drastic. Some, like me, do it just because we can and not because of any need. If you have a solid system it will be just fine on stock settings. If you have a good cooling solution you could just try enabling MCE.

I decided that I don't want to risk it when the mobo seems to be doing fine itself keeping it stable and at 4.6. Thank you for the feedback because you are right, in my case it does not make sense to tweak for such a small performance gain when I am new to the OC process to boot.