1. lock voltages to default. 2. Create OC environment by disabling a few features. 3. Apply overclock. I go over all of that.
Its easier to write down what you need to change for later.
*Forget all that prime95 crap. Do what I do to test for stability. Play a modern pc game instead. Something you know that will make your system try hard like for example, online fps games, Battlefield1, Dirty Bomb. If you can play a game for 20 minutes your good.
*If you want you can just lock your voltages and setup your OC environment, (Disabling power saving features) and then find your highest bus and clock ratio on your own. Use my bus and clock ratio as a starting point and if that works, see how much further you can bump your bus speed up. keep in mind your NB frequency and HT Link frequencies when upping your bus speed. keep them with in 200mhz of their default frequencies k.
*I need a voltage around 1.49v to hit 4.8ghz and the LLC jacks that up to over 1.52v so I choose to run at 4.53ghz. I'm not gonna burn out my CPU for 200 more mhz. 1.5v on the VCore is this processors maximum safe voltage and if your LLC pushes your VCore higher then 1.5v you can damage your CPU or at least severely shorten its life. Also, heat really starts to become an issue after 1.45000v.
I have always had a hard time with stability if I raise the CPU Clock Ratio any higher then 21.00, if I am also raising the bus speed to. My recommendation is to leave the clock ratio at 21.00 and go for raising the bus as high as you can. 216mhz on the bus and 21.00 on the multiplier with a 1.44vcore is my max.
This video is me applying my overclock settings again after a CMOS reset. I recently bricked my bios while attempting to flash a new post screen image. Thats all fixed now and now i am gonna put my OC back in.
