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Will it be easy to overclock the i7 2600k on the Asus P8Z68?

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jdx3ds   01-20-2012 at 12:41:01 AM

It seems like they have an easy one click overclock option in the bios,

but do I have to worry about temperatures and voltages?

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willy2558   02-09-2012 at 06:50:02 AM

I wanna know the same thing!

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madchemist83   02-09-2012 at 07:43:22 AM

don't use auto settings or oc auto utility do it manually
what exact board r u talking about? there are many that P8z68

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jdx3ds   02-09-2012 at 07:56:52 AM

why not use the auto settings?

it's the p8z68-v/gen 3 I think

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madchemist83   02-09-2012 at 08:00:50 AM

because it will set ur voltage crazy high
work ur way up.
You can find lot's of guides here on toms and around the net
basically set ur ram voltage to whatever it's rated at .. usually 1.5
set cpu voltage to 1.25, set multi to 40 and run Prime while monitoring ur temps and vcore

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vollman1   02-09-2012 at 08:03:23 AM

Keep him away from the lx, madchemist83!

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madchemist83   02-09-2012 at 08:06:57 AM

he is good .. he got the pros :)

@OP
a little research and couple weeks of testing and I got stable OC of 4.8Ghz
but again it'll depend on the chip

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Nikorr   02-10-2012 at 10:15:03 AM

jdx3ds wrote :

It seems like they have an easy one click overclock option in the bios,

 

but do I have to worry about temperatures and voltages?


I have a V version and when I tried the ASUS AI II utility, it OC'd to 4.4GHz without any problem and any other adjustment.

 

It clocked the RAM @ 1600MHz using XMP profile no questions asked.

 

Manually it can be done more efficiently.

 

Great detailed guide @ http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] king-guide


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aqe040466   02-11-2012 at 06:29:41 AM

jdx3ds wrote :

why not use the auto settings?

it's the p8z68-v/gen 3 I think




Using auto OC are for noobs. Go to BIOS and make the adjustmentsthere if you are really PC enthusiasts.

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Nikorr   02-11-2012 at 01:20:19 PM

jdx3ds wrote :

Well, I am a noob.


Follow this guide @ http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] king-guide

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madchemist83   02-12-2012 at 04:00:33 AM

It depends how high you want to go.

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jdx3ds   02-12-2012 at 07:34:25 AM

let's say 4.5ghz when I want to do CPU intensive projects

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