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what is going on YouTube you are watching J's two cents and if you can't tell by the title of this video this is way way overdue but I wanted to make sure I brought it to you right and this is going to be my Intel overclocking guide and this is a live commentary so you may hear some dogs barking you may hear some helicopters flying you might hear some fans going it's really really hot where I live in fact today it was over a hundred and eight degrees and it's not even July yet but whatever I digress this what you're looking at right here this is my desktop and this awesome right here this isn't for me this is for you guys because of all the support that you've given me through this entire YouTube venture I just wanted to go ahead and let you guys know that you are awesome and for that very reason is why I'm doing the giveaway in my previous video the infomercial I did or tilt I'm linking it right here shameless plug go and check it out enter to win one of those amazing powerplant battery packs for your mobile device you know you want to win it so go check it out right now pause the video go over there watch it it's only two minutes long and you could be winning yourself a $90 battery pack to keep all of your mobile devices charged so with that out of the way first of all this is do it at your own risk there are no guarantees when it comes to overclocking there is no guarantees you won't fry it there's no guarantees your chip will even overclock overclocking is 100% luck of the draw you may get a good chip you may get a bad chip you may get a mediocre chip but whatever you can just keep your fingers crossed and hope that you get at least a few hundred extra megahertz and if you're lucky with AMD or excuse me with Intel you may get a gigahertz or more so keep your fingers crossed and let's go ahead and talk about some programs that you're going to need when it comes to stability testing because simply getting your computer to boot with your overclock is not good enough you have to make sure it's stable especially for the different tasks that you perform so starting from these programs right here in this square oh and by the way when it comes to recording my desktop because no you guys are going to be asking I am using the Elgato Game Capture HD it is a HDMI capture device I just have it capturing my monitor and we're recording it on the laptop including my microphone my blue Yeti there we go starting left to right you've got OCC T this is a stability program as you can see over here it's loading it a bunch of guys hammering on their computers because I guess metaphorically that's kind of what you're doing when you overclock so it's got some warnings here it's telling you it's not for commercial use blah blah blah a lot of information about your system is displayed right here you've got a moving graph here when it comes to your core temperatures voltages frequencies usage you have all the setup right here when it comes to your stability testing we're not going to go into depth on how to use these programs I'm just showing you the programs that I use when it comes to mice ability testing next on the list here we have intel burn test this is burn test right here it's just a little bitty program and it's got this little flame right here which initially when I first saw this it was kind of scary I'm like wait a minute it says freeze test and it's a it's a flame it's fire that's scary but what it is is when you hit start here and it starts running its algorithm and testing your CPU it's got this little moving image so that you can tell if you have a system lock up so I know it's freeze test but it's fire it's almost kind of like an oxymoron almost like a little joke but anyway we're going to stop that right now is where I'm going to do a stability testing we've got Cinebench is what we use here for benchmarking once you have a stable overclock and you want to benchmark it to compare between your other overclocks you can download Cinebench it is free and you have a 32-bit and a 64-bit version this is what it looks like disclaimer of course and the basically just when you turn on the CPU for a rendering test it just renders out this image with however many cores that you have and we're not going to let that run because that's not what we're doing right now when it comes to Hardware monitoring I've got two programs Hardware monitor and cpuid Hardware monitors shows you everything going on with your system I've showed you this program in AMD video if you expand this here it shows you a lot shows you what motherboards you're using right here it shows you the voltages now you're going to want to kind of nor were these voltages for the most part I mean they're software monitoring of voltages I mean it's mediocre at best it's usually very very off from where the voltage meter shows so ignore the voltages here you've got some of your different temperatures here you've got fan speeds mine tends to freak out as you can see it thinks that my fans are running like you know jet turbine speeds sixty five thousand rpms I just know it's because I have some fans jumper together and and weird things like that happen so just kind of ignore that but you got your core temperatures here including your package temperature so if you want to understand for instance my 3770k has 4 cores cores 0 through 3 and right now they are currently running in the 30s and you've got here your value which is current your minimum recorded in your maximum recorded and then packages the entire socket what all of those core is including the socket make up when it comes to the die you've got your powers here which is right now showing that I'm using about 23 watts at idle this number does jump around again when it comes to your power consumption it's software monitoring it's mediocre at best and then it's going to show you you know all the other temperatures for hard drives graphics cards and whatnot and look my graphics cards running at 29 degrees that's it's nice my phone just fell over fail alright so there you go this is what I use when it comes to monitoring and last but not least to verify your overclock you use cpuid this brings up here just a little bit of information as you can currently see I am running a 3770k 1.26 5 volts and I am running at 4.7 gigahertz right now through a multiplier overclock and then you can click memory here to see what's happening with the memory you can see I am using DDR which is double density Ram at a thousand megahertz times 2 because it's double density running at 2000 megahertz on the RAM right now at 1011 1030 plots so there you have it guys so where you're going to go ahead and do right now is we're going to go ahead and we're going to reboot my machine ok so now we're back in BIOS and as you can see here everything is in default we're going to ignore this NIC sits sis overclocked profile because he does have profiles as he's that he's added onto here but we're going to go ahead and do right now is we're going to turn on OC tweaking you may or may not need to turn that on on your board most boards especially the ROG boards and other Asus boards they have a you know over manual overclocking you have to turn that on are on so you're going to have to consult the manual for your motherboard but when it comes to overclocking the CPU there's a couple of things that you're going to have to disable right off the bat so for Intel you're going to disable the sped spread-spectrum which it says right there in the right in this area right here to suggest that to disable when you're overclocking so we'll go ahead and do that stable it multi-core acceleration you want to keep that on obviously intel speedstep technology you're going to leave that on and the Intel turbo boost technology you can go ahead and leave that on additional turbo voltage what that means is when you're overclocking and the turbo mode engages you know where the multiplier changes it'll add more voltage we're going to leave that as it is an internal PLL over voltage that is going to be enabled that you're going to enable that if you're starting to push about 4.6 or higher so unless you're going for point six or higher just basically leave that where it is all this other stuff when it comes to short duration power limit power primary plane and all that stuff leave that on auto that's very advanced stuff and most importantly to when it comes to your RAM I do have 1866 RAM in here but we are going to leave this we're going to set this static what I mean by static is we're telling it what to put in there not letting it use an auto feature at 1333 because you want to make sure that when you're checking for overclock stability that you're leaving the RAM out of the equation because last thing you want to do is be messing around with your CPU settings for days or in my case what the AMD is you guys may have known months trying to find a stable overclock when it turns out all along it was just your RAM that was overclocked too far so we're going to go ahead and leave that at 1333 which is just the default memory controller inside the chip so we'll leave it there to nice nice save setting we're going to go ahead and power saving mode disabled that's good extreme voltage we'll go ahead an able that and we're going to go down here to a lone light lined load calibration I'll leave mine at one that way it doesn't really reduce the voltage at all during load because I have a really adequate PSU or power supply unit very very good one it's a gold rated is an Corsair ax 750 but of course you need to make sure you have the hardware to support your overclock so you need to have a nice powerful efficient and very stable power supply unit don't just go by the Watts rating there's a lot more to power supplies than just the Watts rating it's also the efficiency the the efficiency of the rail whether or not it's a single rail dual rail quad rail 12 volt all that stuff matters because if you have dirty energy getting into your CPU where the frequency and the power coming in is fluctuating all over the place you can accidentally damage something so anyway internal GPU load line calibration we don't use internal GPU will leave that off and when it comes to the voltage here I like to use a fixed mode and I like to start out at right about 1.2 volts there we go so that's where we're going to start it we're going to leave things right here at the default 35 multiplier where do we go in here how embarrassing I have lost my old multiplier okay there we go host CPU ratio all cores and then stock is 35 because the way this works with Intel is the base clock is at 100 times whatever the multiplier is gets you your frequency so base clocks 100 set that I'll core 235 so we're basically static here we've told the computer use these settings in ignore Auto so we're going to go ahead and reboot that into Windows we are going to perform our first stability test with Intel burn test and I will show you guys that as we're going to go ahead and cut a chat here for a second as the Windows boots up should only take about 10 or 12 seconds or so and I like to use Intel burn tests when it comes to the initial testing of the overclock and then or even the just the base clock and what I'd like to do with that is just leave it on standard because it only takes about ten minutes to do its test open it up and then hit start let that go it'll have you know it'll it'll run the test ten times as you can see right here and then once you know you're stable or it completes the test stop reboot into BIOS and we're just going to pretend we finish that test because we know it's going to work at the base clock go back into BIOS and then we are going to bump up that multiplier just a little bit okay so here we are we are back in the BIOS now we are going to go ahead and immediately let's just go ahead and jump right up - lets go multipe multiplier of 42 and the reason why I say multiplier 42 is because it's most 3770 and 35 70 KS even your 2500 s in your 2600 KS are more than capable of running a 42 multiplayer without very much tweaking needed whatsoever so once you do that you can just f10 save and then reboot into Windows now it's really important I can't stress this enough you have to have adequate cooling you can't just plop on the stock cooler and expect to get massive overclock so you can only get it with the stock cooler I wouldn't recommend you try an overclock at all and even with a decent air cooler like a hyper 212 or even a v6 or v8 or even one of the Noctua coolers I don't recommend that you push your overclock too far because you know air cooling is entirely dependent on the ambient temperature and that's why I water cool because I like to overclock as far as I possibly can so now that we've rebooted with our new multiplier you come to cpuid and there it is right there 4200 megahertz so you can go ahead and run your Cinebench if you want to go ahead and test that and see how it does and just for the heck of it we'll go ahead and run Cinebench right now this is assuming that you've gone ahead done your stability test for the sake of the video we're not going to do a stability test every single time we're just going to kind of assume that you guys have done it make sure every time you change the setting you go back and you do your stability test and once you get to an overclock that you feel is your maximum stable overclock you then can run OCC tea or even prime95 that's another program that I use for Intel at least I said I don't like it for AMD but for Intel it's perfectly fine run your prime95 for at least a few hours a lot of people recommend 24 hours I find that to be extreme overkill usually on prime95 if you're going to run into any problems it'll happen in the first hour or two so I ran mine the other day for four hours just for good measure perfectly stable and as you guys saw with my livestream the other day absolutely no problems whatsoever but this this lighter color orange right here this is the test we just performed and you can actually see that compared to my four point seven test right here nine point five six versus an eight point five four it's a whole point difference just with a few hundred megahertz so yeah let's go ahead and save that school or sure why not so let's go ahead and restart into BIOS and let's go and talk a little bit about voltages and RAM and then that's pretty much it guys intel has really made overclocking extremely easy it is literally nothing more than making sure you have adequate cooling good Ram a good power supply unit and changing a multiplier even if you change the base clock to 101 at least with my chip if I change this base clock to 101 one megahertz faster my computer won't boot so you know it's it is what it is and my overclock that I use my 24/7 stable overclock is this four point seven right here I do have a four point eight stable it's just a little bit harder than I'd like because what you're going to notice as you start to bump up the overclock and go ahead and ignore these other you know these other numbers you see right here this is advanced stuff here when it comes to the delivery of the power but at 2,000 megahertz on my ram and a forty seven multiplier right here as you can see right there forty seven multiplier I am running at 1.26 where'd you go 1.27 bolts so as you can see I didn't need much more voltage at all to get up to 4.7 but now let's take a look at the overclock that I needed for for 4.8 so check this out I just loaded my 4.8 profile and if you look at the voltage look at that one point two nine and one point I mean we're talking 100 megahertz and I had to add a whole point zero two volt so now you can understand what the way it works with Intel the voltages once you get to about one point two six one point two seven and up start to get much much hotter exponentially I mean if I if I was to take this right now and I was to demonstrate even with my water cooling at one point two nine I'm going to reach about 74 273 degrees Celsius on the course but at one point three it starts to bump up into the high 70s and at one point three one I start to see low 80s at one point three five and up I start to see 90s and at one point four which is what it took for me to get five gigahertz on this chip I started to see 100 degrees Celsius on the core so I immediately stopped it when I saw those temps but what does that tell me it doesn't tell me that my cooling system is inadequate because the heat coming out of my radiators was not even warm whereas my AMD's just feel like a furnace it tells me that my chip suffers from the bad thermal paste that was used on Ivybridge and unfortunately is plaguing a lot of Haswell chips as well so guys that is really it once you get onto a ratio that your CPU likes at a voltage that is nice and comfortable and you get it stable then what you do is you leave your CPU multiplier where it's at and then you take your your voltages here and you run your stability test and you get okay I'm stable so then you would load back into BIOS you reduce the voltage one notch and you just keep performing that test reducing voltage reducing voltage every single time you run that Intel burn test once your Intel burn test fails bump it back up a notch and then you run your test again if it's stable run it again if it doesn't crash for a second time then you run your prime95 your OC CT for at least a couple of hours if it fails then you got to bump the voltage up another notch and redo repeat your long tests that's really all it comes down to when it comes to Intel there is one other setting that you can try here for stability it's the CPU PLL voltage as you can see the voltage showing here on the left this is current it's not going to match what's on the right because I loaded a profile what I haven't rebooted yet you can bump this up to one point eight one five it's actually one point eight one three I guess you can bump it up to that voltage for a little bit of added stability that's where I've found that I've got the max stability right now is at that particular voltage once your CPU is nice and stable then you start bumping up your RAM frequency one notch at a time and right now I found that to thousands perfect at 2133 my CPU fails to boot but as you bump up your ram voltage or excuse me your ram frequency you're also going to have to come to your DRAM voltage and pump that up as well so as you can see stock voltage for my ram is 1.5 volts and the value that i run it out from my overclock is 1.5 v i'm pretty lucky that it didn't need a whole point 1 volt to overclock sometimes the ram you have to bump up a decent amount as well to get an overclock fortunately I don't have to do that so we're good I am going to reboot with these settings here and we're gonna go ahead and run this in a bench and I'm going to show you one other neat utility that you can use when it comes to overclocking the RAM and checking for RAM speed increase and how well overall your ram is performing so anyway if you're wondering why my Windows boots so fast it is because I want to solve the state drive obviously this is that right here max min so we'll go ahead move maximum over here we'll go ahead and start Cinebench all right so it's going to load cinnamon 6 64 bit let's go ahead and run this in real time that's the cool thing about using a capture card like this is I can actually run these benchmarks in real time for you guys and you guys can see them you can also see when I'm doing this video and what time it is look it's 10 o'clock at night the families in Beijing we have to be quiet I don't want to wake up my four year old because if I do oh my god if I you know the nickname for my daughter for a while there was Megatron we used to call him Megatron because she was just ah anyway this test is running nice and fast eight threads running here four cores eight threads got to love the hyper threading and it's just about done yep this is a benchmark of my four point seven overclock and look at that the bright orange nine point seven nine that other test that you saw where it was a nine point five six it didn't save it that's weird I got this boost because that nine point five six was at 1866 Ram that was with my old Ram my Patriot Ram that would not overclock beyond the XMP profile of 1866 no matter what I did however I am running Corsair Vengeance in here now and this is the first time I ran this test with my overclock at nine point seven nine at 2000 megahertz on the RAM so as you can see Ram plays a big part in the overclock as well so there you have it this was the first overclock we did together and here we are right now after the fine tuning and playing around with it and as I promised here we'll go ahead and take a look at maximum and what that does is it just takes your memory and once it's fully loaded up you click start benchmark and what it's doing now is it's testing all of the latency it's sending information to your RAM having a process and it will benchmark the transfer speed of your RAM and this vengeance Ram if you follow me on Twitter I talked about I will always use this stuff look at this memory copy twenty seven thousand eight megabytes per second memory read twenty four thousand eight hundred seven megabytes per second memory write twenty-three thousand 80 megabytes per second at a forty eight point five nanosecond latency that is fast people extremely fast my Patriot Ram was only nineteen thousand there you have it guys overclocking the Intel 3770k the same process applies to 2500 K at Sandy Bridge in up Sandy Bridge Ivy Bridge has well because of the fact that they all use the same type of overclocking and multiplier because you're not having to be able to North bridge or north side bus here we are four point eight I loaded the four point eight profile and we are stable so I'll probably bump it back down to the four point seven real quick before I hop off here why don't we go ahead and just run so you guys can see in real time what the temperatures look like and why it is so important to have proper cooling for your overclock I cannot stress this enough so on the Left right here we've got my and we're going to just reduce this you can see the core temps only how's that all right here is core temperatures with a package okay as you can see right now we're sitting in 30s minimum was low 30s with a high of 13 over there and then in the 40s and forty seven max so far but watch one I turn this to let's say maximum or maximum stress it's going to use all the RAM available to it and once I hit start on this look what happens to these temperatures keep an eye on this boom it's going to start to climb and climb and I mean I've got pretty good cooling on here as you can see we're just sitting at about sixty but the longer you let this go especially with water cooling the water temperature starts to warm up and you know it's going to start to rise and over time I'll probably see this 4.8 overclocks it's somewhere in the 88 degrees range so there you have it guys I know this was a long video I know it's probably really boring and I know it's long overdue just put down in the comments if you're having some trouble with your overclocks put it down in your comments what your settings are and what problems you're getting you're going to get lot it when you're testing this stuff you're going to get lock ups you're going to get blue screens you're going to get all sorts of stuff that's going to freak you out and you're also going to notice that when you start to bump up your voltage and you hit that save and exit button from your BIOS sometimes your computer is going to shut off and I know when I first started overclocking that really freaked me out and real quick as you can see the temperatures look a high they're jumping up now see this so cooling very important people so your computer may shut off on you that's just the voltage regulators resetting because they can only adjust so much with the current being sent to them so they'll shut off readjust to whatever voltages are you set and then the computer will reboot so it's very hard to actually break something with your CPU when it comes to overclock if it's too much it just simply won't boot most of the time there you go guys jst sense make sure you subscribe following for all these geeky types of videos put your settings down that's in the comments if you have any questions about your overclock and if you having some failure do the best I can to help you out more importantly there's enough geeks following this channel now that there's other people that are going to be willing to help you out because I can't possibly answer all of these comments I do appreciate you guys watching and liking my videos the support is amazing and like I said at the start of this video this awesome 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