Hi all

 

I am planning on overclocking my CPU for the first time tomorrow, and would like to know some things before I just jump right in. I've been looking at peoples PC specs on this forum and noticed a lot of people have OC'd CPU's so I thought this would be a good place to ask. Ok so my first question is this:

 

-Can I achieve a stable overclock of anywhere between 4.0 to 4.5ghz on the following hardware? (Im not interested in pushing it any higher incase of damage)

 

MOB: Asus 1155 P8P67 Evo

CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k

PSU: OCZ 550w

GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6950

RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz

CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

Case: CiT Vantage w/ 4 Fans

 

and also:

 

-Should I manually overclock the CPU, or use the built-in Overclock Tuner feature?

-Can you recommend any good software that can monitor CPU temperatures, voltages and clock speeds?

 

Thanks in advance

-Can I achieve a stable overclock of anywhere between 4.0 to 4.5ghz on the following hardware? (Im not interested in pushing it any higher incase of damage)

 

MOB: Asus 1155 P8P67 Evo

CPU: Intel Core i7 2600k

PSU: OCZ 550w

GPU: AMD Radeon HD 6950

RAM: 8GB Corsair Vengeance 1600mhz

CPU Cooler: Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro

Case: CiT Vantage w/ 4 Fans

Yes, everythng is fine at tis settings, just stay above 1.425 GHz

 

and also:

 

-Should I manually overclock the CPU, or use the built-in Overclock Tuner feature?

 

 

 

 

You should manually oc your CPU, never use OC tuner feature, it's use far high Vcore. U shoould try to find out "offset value" for you, it's better than manuall oc

-Can you recommend any good software that can monitor CPU temperatures, voltages and clock speeds?

For CPU speed and voltages go for CPU-Z, for temps - go for Core temps or RealTemps

Thanks in advance

-Can I achieve a stable overclock of anywhere between 4.0 to 4.5ghz on the following hardware? (Im not interested in pushing it any higher incase of damage)

 

 

The 2600K is a very able chip, it runs cool-ish, so 4.5 should be no problem at all

 

-Should I manually overclock the CPU, or use the built-in Overclock Tuner feature?

 

I tried the Auto-OC feature on my Asus Board, it wanted to push my 3770K past 4.9 GHz, but the voltage was crazy high, so never use the Auto tuning software, it will horribly over volt your chip. Manually do it.

 

-Can you recommend any good software that can monitor CPU temperatures, voltages and clock speeds?

 

AIDA64 is a pretty good all in one software, it monitors everything.