Advice 2600k Looking good?

Hey there people

For the first time I want to jump into overclocking, I have been reading most of the posts in here for a year even when I had my 1055t but was to scared to hit save changes and boot. So I bought a 2600K and I thought it would be pointless not overclocking a waste of money even! So I have some questions which It would be nice if I had them answered.

Firstly I will give you my specs to iron out problems;
2600k
Noctua NH D14 (Also had for a year but never pushed it even on the 1055t lol)
AsRock Extreme 3 Gen 3
GTX 570 (In the post)
Corsair HX 750w

Here are my questions

1.) With the UEFI I'm using at the moment under CPU Core Voltage or VCore there are three options I have looked at them and can't decide which is best, now keep in mind i'm only aiming for a 3.8 - 4.2 since I'm scared to push it much more and this small overclock should give me better performance. so The three options are 'Auto' 'Offset' and fixed, which one is going to be best for this small overclock.

2.) When I selected offset it allowed me to increase the Vcore in small increments now when I selected 0.005 does this add 0.005 to the already existing volts. So the CPU at default is at 1.2610 or thereabouts does this offset option add 0.005 to the already existing Vcore therefore this would make it 1.266??

Any help much appreciated, please ask questions if I did not make something clear.

Best Regards Cain.

I would suggest starting with manual vcore of about 1.25 and going up on multiplier till u hit bsod.. Then increase voltage. When u find best possible voltage then run prime for about 12 hours and see of you bsod. Then switch to offset.
Offset works the way that it lowers or raises ur base clock. Weird thing happens for me at idle I'd have 1.29 @ 4.2ghz and under load it would drop to 1.25 my offset is set to 0.05

For the overclock you are aiming for on that proc you won't need to change, or shouldn't need to change your CPU voltage. Just change your multiplier to 42 apply and reboot. Prime test it and you should be good to go.

the stock voltage range for that cpu is 1.2~1.35v. if you leave it on auto the mb is going to adjust the voltage within the vid of the proc. since you are only looking at going to 4.2ghz you can over clock on stock voltage levels. leave the setting on auto and change your multiplier to 42, disable spread spectrum and your pretty much done.

I'm a 2500k owner, oc'd to 4.2GHz on stock voltages stable.

also here is a video that shows you settings and other useful for the AsRock UEFI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9e0 [...] re=related

You can't compare an i5 to an i7 when it comes to overclocking cause the i7 will need more voltage per clock then the i7 because of hyperthreading.


OP you don't need to be so cautious. Your not going to hurt it unless you pour 1.45v plus into it for a decent amount of time. Blue screens arent bad per se like it seems you think they are. Relax a little and enjoy the process. Set the the voltage to 1.25 like someone else said the put the multiplier to 42. then stress test and if it passes.lower the voltage till it fails. Once you find a good voltage change to offset that corresponds to the voltage you found using a monitoring program.

Tbh you need to run programs cpuz and hwmonitor to measure core temps and voltage. Until then we don't have anything to go off of

Right I have all of the monitoring software in place, like prime95 and CPU-z and CoreTemp. Could you just confirm that the offset setting I'm going to enter is correct? +0.005 is the offset value I'm going to be using all good?

With the Noctua NH D14, Cain you can run the 4500mhz range 100% rock solid with no problem, what you have to decide on yourself, is what Intel features you cannot live without because you're going to have much more versatility than you did with your AMD 1055T.

You have the ability to leave your Turbo Boost enabled or disabled, and use whatever energy saving features Intel has built into the CPU, or you have the option of actually overclocking all 4 cores with no throttling, (check sig link), you just have to decide which overclocking route you want to take.

Fixed CPU voltage is more advantageous if you're taking the 4 core no throttling approach, as with the lesser overclocking routes depending on Turbo Boost some prefer the offset voltage.

I've used fixed voltage with my 2500K since I've had it from the beginning of 2011, from my experience it's more dependable in the operating system itself.

Since all hardware is of differing quality you'll definitely be doing a lot of experimenting along the way because voltage ranges are close but different settings between a 2600K, 2500K, 2700K etc., but they all overclock basically exactly the same.

Sorry that's not what I meant. Offset lowers or raises ur base voltage.
Now I have it set to offset +0.005 and it's higher voltage at idle then under load.

Okay I will just finish up with some work and give this a punt. Wish me luck

Just done it before you posted that and the volts are crazy!!! I put in 40 went down to the CPU Voltage used the offset and entered -0.005 which was the smallest '-' option.

Volts are at 1.3611 like why are they so high when I used offset and -0.005?

Update/ Just went into the offset settings again and used -0.010, however no change in voltage. Anymore ideas?

Right went back in and used -0.050 with the offset and when at full load still at 1.3611.

@majorgibly

Cain check my post to you above, if you just don't want any help from me, No Problemo! Ryan

Any help I can get I appreciate, it's just the Vcore I don't understand why it's so high. I'm using offset value of -0.050 and it does not seems to be lowering the volts at all.

Cain.

Take a break man, read mrfaces guide his guide was based on the 2600K specifically with an MSI M/B then read mine and get a more solid understanding, my guide is ASRock M/B related, but is also specifically overclocking all the cores.

I have read them before and I understand the settings, I just can't understand why the offset (in my rig) does nothing, may as well of left it to auto.

try this cause i have the same board. set multiplier to 42. offset to -.06(i run -.03 actually at 4.5ghz). then set the max power to like 200. make sure ram is set to 1.5v then go to advance-> cpu settings then turn everything off but hyperthreading and c1e. try that and see what you get.