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okay guys what up this is Brian easy here today and I'm coming back to you guys today with K basically it's a beginner's guide to overclocking okay so I've had a lot of people since I made my own overclock videos for Ivy Bridge I've had a lot of people sort of message me and say well this isn't a tutorial this it doesn't you know it doesn't explain to me how to overclock well today I'm gonna give you guys the real basics on how to overclock okay so today I'm doing a super beginner's guide to overclocking and more sooo overclocking an Ivy Bridge okay so the first half of this video is going to be overclocking and Ivy Bridge specifically the second half of this video will be buying any sort of processor and motherboard and overclocking that okay so let's begin guys if you got any comments to leave them in the comment section below and I will get back to you as soon as I can now first off you want to get three programs so you can download them in the links below I've given the links below these are three crucial programs for overclocking in my opinion first one is core temp which will show you your core temperatures so we load that up actually it shows that my CPU is idling now 30 32 34 27 so at the moment I'm on 44 4.2 gigahertz open up CPU Z okay so core temp will tell you the temperatures and also tell you the loads on your cause so it's a really good program CPU Z will tell you what overclock you are getting and prime95 will be a stress testing so we just want to stress test and I usually do maximum heat so in place large FFTs now before we hit the ok button guys I just want to make sure you guys do this okay before you overclock anything install your OS and then go to start menu cute ah right-click on your local disk C Drive where your Windows is installed click properties and then I want you to go to Hardware right click Corsair and or decorate this left click it and then click properties change settings and then I want you to go to policies and I want you seen usually these two will be chip checked I want you to take them off okay so enable right casing on the device take it off because that way your if your windows crashes it will not corrupt any files okay so says will set their fail not resolve I'll scrub them ok so they're turned off now we can overclock to our hearts content now in place large F of T so I'll show you how this program works okay so that's running it's magic there around 4.2 gigahertz and we are getting temps of around 65 degrees now Ivy Bridge specifically it does run pretty hot ok so ivory bridge is a hot CPU now the reason why is a lot of people say is because the heat spreader on it is different to the Sandy Bridge the predecessor I mean be sorry yeah the predecessor to this model and the apparently Sandy Bridge overclocks better I haven't tried a Sandy Bridge but anyway this is my I'm getting so I'm gonna bout 67 66 degrees it'll probably go high if I left it on for a few hours so didn't be safe to say maybe 70 degrees would be my max and that's just 24/7 stable so that's what I'm getting at the moment 4.2 I'm happy with four point two degree four point two gigahertz at the moment that's what I'm happy with this is my everyday overclock at the moment so I'm at one point one two volts I mean sorry at one point yeah one one volts and that's it for me that's a good overclock now I'm gonna show you guys from now how to get this overclock okay so if you're running an i-5 35 70k your results should be pretty similar you should be getting around about the same maybe maximum would be point 1 1 5 and your minimum would probably point 105 to this same overclock ok now more specifically the i7 3770k if you have that CPU I have had a chance to test it I did test one at work it is a better CPU like it's not it's not light years better but it is more efficient like it will overclock with less faults because obviously when they manufacture these CPUs they manufacture them on a die and they take the best ones and they're the i7s then if through megabytes of caches faulty they then say ok that can become an i5 3 570 K or if it's not as fast as the i7 it'll say that will become an i5 as well so they do that and cascades down until you get your crap cpu models so they're very efficient and what they do so anyway guys let's go so we've done that we've installed these three programs ok core temp CPU Z and prime95 and now we are ready so I got 70 degrees in most you up to 70 and now we are ready to show you guys what settings to put into we're ready to show you guys what settings to put into baths so let's let's just restart now now also another thing is guys I want you to what I want you to do is I want you to run your computer for a little while if you have just built your computer I don't want you to overclock yet I want you to run for a few days everything on the normal settings because you want to know if you have any you know any bad parts so basically you want to find out if you have any bad part so to do this you kind of I think it ever know what's happening here my you just sort of something in the race so basically um I guess in our inbox we press delete to get the boss and yeah so what I was saying before is is that yeah you want to run your parts on your computer for about maybe two days at leasts playing games stress testing just on everything on the Ordo to find out to make sure you don't have any faulty parts cuz you know you can't get a faulty arm you can get faulty ram that's probably the most common is faulty ran I've had faulty RAM in the past I know a lot of my friends had faulty RAM in the past faulty room is quite common not quite common but it does happen so faulty sleepy open it had a faulty CPU I have had faulty video cards but that's after running him for a while and so yeah well you can't get faulty parts so it's best to run them in part your parts in before you sort of overclock now I'm on an Azeroth guys specifically every motherboard manufacturer will have a different will have a completely different BIOS layout okay so I'm using as rocks okay as rocks is really good I love it it is better it's basic and it's not too fancy okay I've seen a Zeus's and it's like you're in a cockpit in an aeroplane it's pretty weird you got all these fancy rev meters and graphs and I don't I personally don't really like it I love as rocks so today I'm gonna show you guys what to do okay so you've loaded up boss there's settings up here main menu okay that'll show you what you've got okay I've got an i7 I got a Z send me something extreme for I've got an Intel i5 three five seven you K I have 16 gigabytes of RAM ok now let's go to overclock Trina okay now if you couldn't be bothered overclocking or doing any settings you can just turn the load optimise CPU settings on you can turn them on they have a variety of settings there if you're really lazy but obviously the difference between doing what I'm going to do now and loading the manufacturers overclocked settings is that the manufacturers overclock settings is for like the worst I fire that they have come across so in other words it will typically oh the vault your CPU and for Ivy Bridge it's really not that good of a thing so let's just let's just start off again I'm gonna load up defaults okay a load you ëif defaults off bang there we go now because I always boot from my hard drive first I'm going to make sure that's boot option one hard drive after I installed my OS now I want to save all the boot option to save I want my printer booting and I want to print from my Buddha we've got temperatures there CPUs at the node 36 degrees motherboards at 37 that's pretty hot a little bit hot but who cares it's nothing dangerous I mean it's it's a hot day guys it's in summer as I was saying before it's summer here where I'm at and it you know your parts are gonna get hot okay so your parts are gonna get hot in summer and you want to not run such a big you don't want to run such you know high over clocks in summer otherwise you'll heat your parts up so let's go do it now we've gotta go in your menu you want to go to overclock Tweaker or you want to go to where your CPU configuration is okay this is where you have to get to whatever man you whatever motherboard manufacturer are using you have to go to CPU configuration this will show you what settings specifically to overclocking that you're gonna have to change so you have to change your CPU ratio okay that's the first thing to change all-cause okay protocol I don't know and I'm not gonna bother with because if you change per core then you're stepping into a very different game of overclocking because you just want to say we'll look my computer's gonna use two cores let's say if it's sending these into cause we can bump it up to four point five but no use all cores because when your computer's working at its max it's going to be using all cores anyway okay so first off we're going to try 4.2 this is what I had before okay so all cores four point two done set in okay that's your CPU ratio now we don't have to worry about spread we'd have to worry about speed step and we want to use intel speedstep to you guys because it under volts this setting here under volts your CPU when it is not being stressed okay and basically saving you power and saving your cpu lifetime okay now these settings here you don't have to worry about them okay now you do have to worry about any of these settings okay internal PLL voltage turn it off you can you know you want to get a stable overclock so we're going down so we set all core now we're gonna go down to voltage configuration now so one setting was to change was this one the cpu ratio first okay we've done that we've changed that in your mountain if you've got a different motherboard guys it may be different there may be a different name for it it might be for instance your CPU ratio all core may be called core configuration it'll be something core okay so now we go down to voltage configuration this is the next part okay power saving mode no I don't care about that CPU voltage very important now it's going to be called 'no it might be called something different on yours okay may be called core voltage it may be called you know CPU line low and like one load you know vol or some voltage setting so it's going to be called something to do with core CPU and it's going to be voltage and it's gonna have three different settings it's gonna have auto it's gonna have offset mode and it's gonna have fixed mode now today this first half the video guys i'm just gonna show you offset mode okay fixed mode is for when you see when I first got the IV bridge I used fixed mode to find mice overclock I didn't look at any other settings on the web I did not look at google.com did not look at anyone elses settings I used fixed mode to find my overclock okay so any CPU any motherboard I pick up I will use fixed mode first to find my stable level of overclock so basically fixed mode what fixed mode does is it runs your CPU at a fixed level so we're going to get into that later okay with Ivy Bridge we want offset mode offset mode is what this does is it compares your voltage to the auto voltage that the motherboard specifies and then under volts or over volts over that auto setting depending on what your motherboard manufacturer has set for the auto okay so offset mode basically the reason why we use offset mode over fixed mode in the end is because offset mode will allow you to use that setting before it'll allow you to still use this setting okay the intel speedstep technology which will under volt and underclock your cpu when it's not being stressed so it's really important I like you know you should be using offset mode basically when you found a stable overclock now for Ivy Bridge guys load line calibration see this here this graph okay we've got vehicle and loading now after using this for a while I do set mine to level 5 okay because when you load up programs they usually they'll be like it's called a voltage drop so straight away the voltage will drop down now with this it'll sort of give it that extra voltage when the programs load but over time it'll decrease the voltage so if you're stress testing in prime95 or any other program you will be using this okay to level five and that way you'll get the least volts available so now that's setting level five okay for you you might want to use when I'm doing fixed voltage I'll use level one but I'll go into that later offset mode okay done load line calibration level five now for IV bridge I've already tested these okay and protested him quite extensively I did I was able to go 2-1 but I found that that was only for stress testing okay when I was real-world applications I found point zero six five worked the best for me okay this is what this is the overclock that I came to find that was most stable for me okay this is what happened okay but anyway for reference I'm just gonna try zero point five okay so let's try that first basically that's 0.1 volt under the manufacturers setting okay so let's save changes and exit okay so we're at minus point one volt now so basically we're running pretty low we're running we're running pretty efficient now pretty cool so to speak so yes my computer does boot pretty fast why you can see me in the reflection - hello it's my shiny Samsung monitor okay now we are in Windows so let's have a look now we've got the 4.2 gig overclock and we're gonna load up core temp straightaway we're gonna load up CPU Z straightaway and we are going to load up prime95 maximum heat that's what we want now straight away at 4.2 gigs I am my voltage is 1.07 - at this speed so this seems to be running pretty good okay now you can run this program for a few hours but I really what I've found is is that you kind of have to load up games and every day so once you've found your overclock using these programs just use your computer normally and if it crashes says what I was going back to that thing before you want to run your computer for a few days on order to make sure you've got no faulty parts okay so after we've done this we are then finding that it's running fine okay so nothing's failing everything's running pretty good 4.2 gigs and a voltage in cpu-z is showing that we're at one point zero seven two which is pretty good okay but I've found after I started using my computer every day that I had to drop it to zero point zero six five - okay so I needed a little bit extra volts to remain completely everyday stable okay so the moment this is what we got and we're running pretty fine okay so if you go to Ivy Bridge yours is gonna be very similar okay and I'm gonna show you what you to do now okay I'm gonna shut this down now we're gonna shop all these programs down exit exit pull temp tags at CPU Z and now we're gonna restart okay so now if your computer crashed when you were doing exactly that I'm gonna show you what to do okay so you've computers crashed you're like oh my god my computer crashed what do i do well that means that you need more voltage okay so if your computer's crashed you need more voltage now we're going back to our settings okay so our computer has theoretically crashed we're 4.2 gigs and we're crashing okay now let's try so this is for me if it's crashed now generally if it's crashed really quickly before you've even booted into Windows you generally I would recommend going at least point zero three volts up if you've crashed say after an hour of stress testing you are getting pretty close so maybe just point zero five or point zero one up from that minus one okay so if we're at minus one and it crashed as we're booting into Windows you'll probably have to go about point zero three up okay if you have just crashed after an hour stress testing or two hours three hours of stress testing then I'd say go up one or point zero five okay and you basically you incrementally increase this offset voltage as you know you get more stable so for me I eventually I found my stable level at four point two Giggs was 0.065 that's what what was stable for me guys okay offset mode level five now that is what I save okay so now I go down to here you can save the profiles okay so you can save this one for point two okay so that's saved that's my fault points good overclock now for me let's try four point four okay so this time I haven't really used four point four as much so I'm going to try doing level let out four point four gig overclock okay I'm gonna show you how I get there level five offset mode okay now offset mode same point zero nine which is a little too low let's try 0.025 okay so I don't know what's going on really old cause 44 and disabled that one cause 44 okay so I did find for the azeroth motherboards the auto setting at four point four pretty much hit the settings are out on the sweet spot it was actually pretty damn good I was impressed but now we're gonna go for a manual overclock at four point four all cores four point four because since we were so rudely interrupted by my camera overheating that's a DSLR so you know they do ever eat quickly if you'd be doing you got all course 44 we've got offset mode 0.015 and load line calibration level 5 ok so let's go to exit Save Changes and makes it so now we're gonna boot into Windows and this is four point four now I don't recommend going over four point four gigahertz as it you know the ivory bridges they run hot and so if you go over 4.4 generally you start to get on an inefficient banned way you know then curve and so where you're putting in more volts and you're just not going the overclock so these things I think this sweet spot is four point four I would say an i7 would probably be about four point six maybe a bit bit better a sweet spot for an i7 377 k so let's go let's load this up we're a four point four now load up core temp we're loading up CPU Z now offset mode is going to okay so basically offset mode is going to display different voltages - you know - what's reading in CPU Z okay so just realize in CPU Z if that starts going over one point two then generally it's getting pretty dangerous okay I would not take mine over one point two volts okay that's just me okay you can you know you can say we can take it over to one point three but yeah you know I know I've read for a fact there's other people on the internet that have over vaulted these to one point three and they're burnt out that process is okay so I'm for me I'm max is one point two volts now at four point four gigahertz and as you can see there at four point four we are getting around seventy three degrees which is pretty good so it's not bad okay this is four point four gigahertz at 1.15 two volts okay so in offset mode we're minus 0.015 I think so that's that's there guys so that's what okay that's my 4.4 gigahertz overclock and now your results will vary but I don't think they will vary that much so where we go we crashed okay beautiful you got that on camera which means we have to vault more okay you got that crash that was great I'm glad you saw that okay so that's what's gonna happen it's gonna happen a lot okay when you're overclocking you know especially if it's your first time so now we overclock so we're probably just gonna set that to we'll just try plus 0.5 I mean give it 0.02 as it wasn't see when we loaded it we loaded into windows we styled up everything we got a bit a stress test out of it so everything was pretty good for a little like one minute so everything was alright for about a minute so we're gonna start when I normally and since we took off those hard drive settings before we should not have a problem with doing it so I should be fine so we're loading into Windows now 4.4 gigahertz at plus 0.05 volts okay so we're in we're in Windows let's load up core temp straightaway load up CPU Z I he's still a bit heartbroken he's still running a little bit hot on idle my process is a bit heartbroken maximum hate power consumption that's what we want okay now this time we're a little bit higher okay we're at one point one six eight and yeah we are I'd say would be where we're at now at plus 0.05 at 4.4 I'd say would be pretty much near the sweet spot okay so our temps are going up to about 76 degrees 75 to go 70 degrees this is summer guys as well I mean my icon I do have my air con going it's about 27 degrees in here but still I'm not gonna take my process at any higher than this okay I just don't feel comfortable doing it I want to use this for a few years I wanna get a couple years usage out of my processor so I'm not too keen to overclock it over the past 4.4 as I've done 4.5 but again the voltages I had to go up to 1.2 - one I think ya 1.21 to get to actually get my 4.5 gigahertz running stable which was a bit too high for me so four point four is a good sweet spot I like 4.2 is it's you know it's less stress for my computer so there we go you guys we I think we are pretty stable now okay at this voltage you know it should be running for a few hours it's getting up to 79 degrees yes if you overclock your over bridge that's what it will get up to 80 degrees you do not want to push it past that I'd say that's about max or what you want your Ivy Bridge to be running up in terms of temperatures so yes these things do get hot the rumors are true they do run pretty damn hot okay so there we go we've hit 80 so these things run hot okay guys 81 now that's so you can see the difference between a 4.2 gigahertz overclock in a 4.4 I mean we only got 200 makes higher that we're going like literally almost you know 14 degrees higher so you know this would be your max you know 4.5 at pravinia max I wouldn't go any higher than 4.5 so 4.4 is pretty good especially in winter and be fine but yeah that's pretty hot no so that's about stable okay so at 1.17 virtually and we're getting pretty hot temps okay so you do not want to run your process or any any more than that in my opinion okay so there you go guys that's the first half of this video done that's overclocking your Ivy Bridge okay now if you have any questions please ask them in the comment section below and yeah yoni how many questions put him in the comment section below and I've got subscribed to keep the Bryan easy-going subscriptions really helped me guys so thanks and peace out I'm gonna do the next half of the video is over here so that'll be overclocking Incivek that'll be overclocking using other settings okay this is when you're first by your CPU and motherboard it'll be overclocking using those cells okay so anyway guys peace out for now