First time OC...Look ok?

[JeffCos]

 

[BusPass]

Temperature's a bit high, lower the voltage a tiny bit.

 

[JeffCos]

Is this better?

Do I want to keep lowering the voltage until it won't boot and then kick it back up in small increments until it does?

Abient is 22.2

 

[BusPass]

Now it's better, you reduced your risks of crashing your computer.
Don't go too far with the OC though, it should not go over 60 degrees.

 

[JeffCos]

60...HA!! I was at 85 yesterday STOCK!! before my Venomous X-RT and tuniq3 were delievered today. Intel HSF is not so good

 

[BusPass]

If your PC is overheating, go repair it.
Also, if it was at 85 Celsius, your computer would make an unwanted odor.
Don't lie please.

 

[Kenmitch]

If your PC is overheating, go repair it.
Also, if it was at 85 Celsius, your computer would make an unwanted odor.
Don't lie please.

Guess you live in an igloo.

The stock intel cooler sucks nutz and can easily reach 85*C under heavy load even at stock speeds. Put that chip in a crappy ass case with little airflow and I'll bet it'll push close to 100*C

OP yes you wanna get the voltages as low as possible and still stay stable while your at it.

 

[JeffCos]

No igloo's here in NJ...should have said that was celsius. Thanks Kenmitch

 

[Kenmitch]

No igloo's here in NJ...should have said that was celsius. Thanks Kenmitch

So your going for the best overclock you can get within a safe temp with hyper-threading enabled? If so just try to keep it in the low 70's under severe stress testing and you should be OK. Might be able to push to about 3.8ghz or so depending on how much voltage she needs to stabalize.

 

[BusPass]

Temperature affects lots of things these days...

 

[JeffCos]

So your going for the best overclock you can get within a safe temp with hyper-threading enabled? If so just try to keep it in the low 70's under severe stress testing and you should be OK. Might be able to push to about 3.8ghz or so depending on how much voltage she needs to stabalize.

I'm not really trying to push it as far as I can go right now. I've seen people get theirs up to 4, but I'm happy with 3.5 right now, at least until I become more familiar with OCing and all these board settings.