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This is my build: PartPickerList

I want to overclock my CPU with an attempt to get a performance increase...
I'm experiencing issues with my windows freezing up for 2-3 seconds often and stuttering in Open Broadcaster Software when I have lots of apps open...... idk if the CPU is the issue exactly...

I have the ASRock Extreme Tuning utility and keep reading that you have to adjust things incrementally but really don't know what all settings to tamper with exactly (CPU Frequency, pcie frequency, multiplier cpu nb voltage, etc.)

I also only have a 600W PSU....


Thanks for your help!
 
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DonkeyOatie
4K is going to be a challenge with anything. An SSD needs to be about 20% empty for efficient TRIM (garbage collection). That is one of the slowest SSD out there and its controller is not the best, in addition, 120Gb is slower than 240 is slower than 480 due to parallel access. I do not recommend less than 240Gb these days and all my recent systems have 500GB.
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does it run well at stock settings? I noticed you have a large variety in you RAM modules - what are RAM settings?
Usual settings to oc cpu are freq multiplier and Vcore, but do it moderately. Many of the oc auto programs are too aggressive, and will raise voltage up too high
 
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Imma noob, RAM settings? Well at stock settings like I said idk but when I have lots of things going my Open Broadcaster Software stutters, and even without it on i've been experiencing my system freezing up for like 5 seconds ish constantly every 10 minutes sometimes until I reboot, but it's been doing that relatively often....

Here is the utility: http://i.imgur.com/BCPCHr0.png

So just up CPU Frequency alone in 100 MHz increments? or the Frequency multiplier as well at the same time?
I don't see Vcore....

 
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o'c: cpu voltage and freq multiplier, you can try to increase the cpu freq a SMALL amount, like 1% at each step

short freezes actually sound like you've run out of RAM and are swapping to disk. Check you RAM usage and available RAM, does computer see all your RAM? What speed is RAM running at?
 
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CPU-Z says 665 MHz which I believe is correct for the 1333 RAM and it is recognizing all 16 GB.... idling it's at 33% memory usage I'll monitor it if it spikes under load...

I'm not quite confident enough to fiddle with the tuner, so increase the CPU Frequency by 100MHz to start out with, and change the CPU Frequency multiplier and Voltage to what?
 
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I would remove both stick of 1335Mhz memory for the moment. The difference between the memory sticks could cause issues and I would not want to deal with them at this time.

You need to do this through BIOS. Automated overclocking is likely to be too aggressive for your motherboard.

Multiplier and Voltage are your main tools.

What stress testing, benchmarking, and monitoring software do you have?

Prime95 26.6
ASUS RealBench
OCCT
CPU-Z
HWMonitor

are the minimum tools needed IMHO.
 
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So I monitored my usage in task manager, everytime my computer stutters and freezes up my SSD boot drive that has 34.7 GB of 111GB free shows and gets stuck at 100% usage as shown here http://i.imgur.com/8BmjGiF.png

What should I do? I tried disk cleanup but it doesn't free up much and I don't really know what else to free up on it if that's an issue... maybe upgrade to a larger and newer SSD or switch windows installations to another drive somehow or something? Is this the issue?

I guess I will refrain from the overclock for the time being, if this can solve my performance issue.

Also I fixed the OBS stuttering issue because it was downscaling my 4k to 720p which I guess is too much encoding for most CPUs to handle, and instead switched my 1080p to my main monitor and am using the 4K as my secondary display for having lots of apps open at once for most of the time off to the left, and also run the HDMI for my 1080p through a capture card with on board encoding
 
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4K is going to be a challenge with anything. An SSD needs to be about 20% empty for efficient TRIM (garbage collection). That is one of the slowest SSD out there and its controller is not the best, in addition, 120Gb is slower than 240 is slower than 480 due to parallel access. I do not recommend less than 240Gb these days and all my recent systems have 500GB.
 
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I just went into the Overclocking tab of the ASRock utility and set CPU Frequency to 211 MHz and CPU Voltage to 1.1375

I got HWMonitor and my CPU-Z now shows the 4315 MHz CPU speed

This video kind of helped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MckeAmnDeTk

but I just took the easy way out and just messed with the utility...


But I ran OBS and everything and now I'm not getting any stutter, at least so far
under load tho the task manager sometimes still spikes to 100% usage on the CPU but I don't see any performance issues, it also shows Speed as 4.04 GHz in the task manager?

Either way I think I'm good at 4.3GHz....

Here's a screen cap: http://i.imgur.com/w3djRPV.png
 
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Well done. Look at the settings in your BIOS that the utility produced and see if you can tweak them and. I would start by seeing if I could reduce the voltage. Try edging it down 1 to 5 steps. (The amount of the last number if the voltage) If you can do this, you should see s slight drop in temperatures and might get enough room for another multiplier step.
 
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I've recently downclocked to stock, because I was getting major desync issues in every game I was playing and narrowed down to the issue to the overclock, not any sort of internet connectivity issue... so I guess my overclock was unstable...

I'm still trying to fix the SSD locking up at 100% usage, and am thinking about adding on a 250GB samsung evo...
 
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Well I have a 2TB HDD but it's mostly applications I'd have to uninstall off the SSD and reinstall :/

 
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