Help with Overclocking

[BhargavP]

Hi,

I am new to OC and I have recently bought following,

HAF X Case
Gigabyte x79 UD-5
Intel i7 3930K
Corsair H100 Water cooler
MSI 560ti Twin Fozr II in SLI
Corsair Vengeance 16GB​

I would like to OC this processor to ~4.2Ghz, can anyone please help me with steps/recommendation/Guide to overclock?

 

[know of fence]

1. Anand's review gives a pretty nice overview over how this stuff generally works, good place to start anyway.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5091/...-bridge-e-review-keeping-the-high-end-alive/3

2.Your motherboard manual.

3. This guys writes good physics(y) stuff on how frequency relates to consumption, and it's sounds very authoritative coming from an intel- employee.

http://software.intel.com/en-us/blogs/2009/08/25/why-p-scales-as-cv2f-is-so-obvious-pt-1/

 

[BhargavP]

thanks mate, I will def read through those.

Thanks again for the reply, Merry Christmas mate.

 

[mrjoltcola]

The SB-E overclock thread is here, you can post there for help from people with similar boards.

http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2207869

4.2Ghz should be about as easy as raising the multiplier to 42 (assuming base clock of 100), and maybe bumping load line calibration one notch, then testing for stability. I doubt you'll need to alter the stock voltage for 4.2