I just recentley bought the intel i5 3750k + z77 extreme 4 mobo and tryed my first overclock however i am still a bit nervous to leave the settings i changed in fear of shortening the cpu's life span or just messing up my pc in general.
the only things i changed in bios was, set cpu to change "all cores" and pumped up the one setting from 34 x 100 to 42 x 100 to get an overclock of 4.2 ghz.
I also changed under the voltage settings to "offset" but i didnt change any voltages at all nor did i mess any energy saving settings. so my CPU throttles itself up and down when in need of more power.
This thread probably sounds really confusing but im just curious did i do everything right or should i have taken a different approach like i said this is my first ever "overclock"
the only things i changed in bios was, set cpu to change "all cores" and pumped up the one setting from 34 x 100 to 42 x 100 to get an overclock of 4.2 ghz.
I also changed under the voltage settings to "offset" but i didnt change any voltages at all nor did i mess any energy saving settings. so my CPU throttles itself up and down when in need of more power.
This thread probably sounds really confusing but im just curious did i do everything right or should i have taken a different approach like i said this is my first ever "overclock"