OC i5 4690k with Asus Z97-p MoBo

[DanGaEb]

Hello.

Is there anyone here who has done this overclock and could give me a guide on how do it?

I'm new to OCing so I'm not 100% sure what to do (I'm using Hyper 212 Evo)

 

[ingtar33]

overclocking on the i5 is pretty easy.

bump your vcore up to 1.25V
then bump your clock speed up to 4.5ghz (change the multiplier to x45)

save your settings and reboot the pc. if you make it to the desktop of windows without any real issue you have an average/good overclocking chip. if your system doesn't post or make it to the windows desktop, then you have a bad overclocking chip.

Your next step will be to download PRIME95 and assuming it's a good/average overclocking chip (if it's not i'll talk to you about that later) you'll run it for 4-8 hours on a blend test at that 4.5ghz. if it can make it through that, you have a good overclocker. if you can't it's an average overclocker.

IF GOOD-
you'll bump the multiplier up another +1 to x46, and see if you can make it through that same prime burn
-if you can, then you'll bump it another +1 and see if you can make it through another burn
-when you fail look at the "average" overclock instructions (no you don't have an average overclocking chip, but the next step will be to do what they do next)
-NOTE: 90C is pretty much the tmax for these chips, if you hit 90C durring a prime burn you're pretty much at the end of the overclocking, short of getting a better cpu cooler. barring that, knock the multiplier down -1 and set the vcore to the last setting that worked at that multiplier and let it run a prime95 burn for 24 hours.

IF AVERAGE
bump the vcore up +0.01V and try again, repeat until you pass the prime burn
if you pass a prime burn, you can look at the "good" chip instructions and follow those (this does not mean your chip is a good overclocker, only your next step will be to follow those instructions)
-NOTE: 90C is pretty much the tmax for these chips, if you hit 90C durring a prime burn you're pretty much at the end of the overclocking, short of getting a better cpu cooler. barring that, knock the multiplier down -1 and set the vcore to the last setting that worked at that multiplier and let it run a prime95 burn for 24 hours.

IF POOR
don't panic about the crashes, even if there is a failure to boot - after 3 or so failures to boot most motherboards will reset the bios settings to the "default" or "basic" settings.
-if this does not happen after 3 failed boot attempts perform a CLR_CMOS
once your system is booting again and the system settings are back to default settings - set the vcore to 1.25V and set the multiplier to 4.4ghz
if the system fails to load to the desktop, you'll need to keep lowering the multiplier until it does.
once you've found the point it will load into the desktop, run prime95 and try to stabilize the overclock following the instructions found in the average overclock setion.
-if you've stabilize the overclock, you can try to bring the clock speeds up one at a time as documented above.
-if you can't you'll just have to keep lowering the clock speed -1 at a time until you can

and that's overclocking in a nutshell.

 

[DanGaEb]

overclocking on the i5 is pretty easy.

bump your vcore up to 1.25V
then bump your clock speed up to 4.5ghz (change the multiplier to x45)

save your settings and reboot the pc. if you make it to the desktop of windows without any real issue you have an average/good overclocking chip. if your system doesn't post or make it to the windows desktop, then you have a bad overclocking chip.

Your next step will be to download PRIME95 and assuming it's a good/average overclocking chip (if it's not i'll talk to you about that later) you'll run it for 4-8 hours on a blend test at that 4.5ghz. if it can make it through that, you have a good overclocker. if you can't it's an average overclocker.

IF GOOD-
you'll bump the multiplier up another +1 to x46, and see if you can make it through that same prime burn
-if you can, then you'll bump it another +1 and see if you can make it through another burn
-when you fail look at the "average" overclock instructions (no you don't have an average overclocking chip, but the next step will be to do what they do next)
-NOTE: 90C is pretty much the tmax for these chips, if you hit 90C durring a prime burn you're pretty much at the end of the overclocking, short of getting a better cpu cooler. barring that, knock the multiplier down -1 and set the vcore to the last setting that worked at that multiplier and let it run a prime95 burn for 24 hours.

IF AVERAGE
bump the vcore up +0.01V and try again, repeat until you pass the prime burn
if you pass a prime burn, you can look at the "good" chip instructions and follow those (this does not mean your chip is a good overclocker, only your next step will be to follow those instructions)
-NOTE: 90C is pretty much the tmax for these chips, if you hit 90C durring a prime burn you're pretty much at the end of the overclocking, short of getting a better cpu cooler. barring that, knock the multiplier down -1 and set the vcore to the last setting that worked at that multiplier and let it run a prime95 burn for 24 hours.

IF POOR
don't panic about the crashes, even if there is a failure to boot - after 3 or so failures to boot most motherboards will reset the bios settings to the "default" or "basic" settings.
-if this does not happen after 3 failed boot attempts perform a CLR_CMOS
once your system is booting again and the system settings are back to default settings - set the vcore to 1.25V and set the multiplier to 4.4ghz
if the system fails to load to the desktop, you'll need to keep lowering the multiplier until it does.
once you've found the point it will load into the desktop, run prime95 and try to stabilize the overclock following the instructions found in the average overclock setion.
-if you've stabilize the overclock, you can try to bring the clock speeds up one at a time as documented above.
-if you can't you'll just have to keep lowering the clock speed -1 at a time until you can

and that's overclocking in a nutshell.

Wow! Thanks so much for the help