Help with my first overclock

[Davidthewin]

I'm using a 3570k on a Gigabyte GAZ77x UD3H with a h100i in push only. I haven't overclocked anything before but I bought the above with the intention of learning how and getting into it. I know some of the basics like increasing voltage increases temperatures, but I've not really got a firm idea of what I'd need to change in the BIOS or why I need to change it. I'd like to go in with a good understanding of what I'm changing and why and how it affects things. If there's a good guide explaining this that anyone knows of that would be great.

As an aside, how far do you think I would be able to push an XFX 7970 Double Dissipation (not the Ghz edition) on stock volts?

 

[SeekaX]

i myself am a rookie to overclocking, but i had a 3570k a few days ago which i overclocked to 4.2ghz. first you want to disable all the energy saving options like c1e, c6 state, etc. then you want to up the multiplier(stick to the multiplier if this is your first oc, no need for bclk increase). try something like 4ghz, should be a 40x multiplier and boot. run prime95 and see if it crashes, which it probably will. then go back in the bios and up the voltage only by a small amount, 0.01V or 0.005V. then you start prime95 again, if it crashes you restart and up the voltage again. you do that until prime95 is stable and stable means 24 hours with no crash. oc'ing is time intensive. your goal is to get the oc stable at the lowest voltage possible.

 

[Genesius]

i agree with what SeekaX has said, however i did mine a bit diffenetly. i left all the energy saving stuff on, purely because i didnt know what it did at the time. then under windows power options select 'high performance'. this will stop the cpu from throttling back from your turbo setting to the idle setting of 1600mhz. then use the turbo setting to overclock how Seekax described.

I usually pick a turbo multiplier, up the voltage a bit (by a bit i mean 0.05 or less) 1.50v is the max before you fry your chip so never go past 1.45, you shouldnt be able to anyway as it will get too hot for your cooler to manage.

then i run a standard intel burn test for 10 cycles. this is quicker than waiting for prime to fail.

once your OC can pass 10, try 40, and then try 10 on very high.

Still stable?

prime it for 24 hours.

Make sure you have cpuz, hardware monitor and core temp running.

Im core temp set overheat prtection for 95 degrees and run it all the time. if your running prime and it gets hot it will put you pc into sleep before the motherboard has to step in and save it in the nick of time. better to be safe than sorry!

once its stable turn balanced mode back on so the speed slows at idle save the profile in the BIOS, make a tea. then learning about LLC (i use high) and DVID (what im currently playing with ATM)

i usually push the chip as far as the cooling will take it but all chips are massively different.

im currently surrounded by 3 3570k rigs and all of the have different vcores, one takes 1,35 just to break 4.5 and mine takes 1.25v at 4.7.

post your results back.