overclocking new build

[solarissf]

Hi Guys,

Just put this together and working at stock:
i5-2500K
ASUS P8P67 PRO
EVGA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
CORSAIR 6500TX
G.SKILL Ripjaws Series 8GB (2 x 4GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
Coolermaster Hyper 212 Plus
WD6402AAEX 640GB 7200 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s

I would like to overclock this and since I am a noob I would like to not go crazy and just a slight/SAFE OC would be fine for me. (gaming pc)

I've been reading beginner guides on this and I have a couple questions:

1. Should I be OC'ing cpu/video card/memory ... or all 3?
2. Since I want to go the safe route.. I noticed for the video card, using nvidea coolbits, I can just hit a AUTO OVERCLOCK.. is it easy as that for a decent upgrade in performance?
3. Then for the CPU, supposively it has a AUTO OC.. anyone know if thats any good or how to do it?

thanks for the input

 

[Krynj]

1) Overclock whatever you'd like. Overclocking RAM can be troublesome and problematic, and most often, not worth it. You're not likely to notice any gains from overclocking RAM.

2) The auto overclock used on modern video cards will OC it just fine. It just increases the memory and clock speed of the card, does a quick stress test, and if it takes it, it leaves it at the OC. You can tweak it yourself if you'd like, just keep a lose eye on your temps.

3) I always avoid the auto OC tools for CPU overclocking. Those have been known to supply way more than enough voltage for a stable OC. Start by increasing your CPU frequency and see what you can get out of the stock voltage. Once it starts crashing, or failing to POST, head back into the BIOS and start bumping up your voltage by a very small amount. The key is to give it just enough voltage to run at 100% load for an extended period of time.

 

[Wizlem]

If you want a safe easy overclock on that rig just set the multi to like 42 on the cpu. I wouldn't bother doing anything to the ram. I have no idea about overclocking the 560 but I saw a review with it at 975 so I imagine you can easily get it to 900.