(Note I don't recommend ADIA for stress testing other than here to gen heat/voltage) Launch ADIA64 and open the sensor display by expanding Computer->" Sensor". To do so, we'll use the ADIA64 sensor display and the built in stress-test. The Uncore, for example, does not need to be synced to the core clock and is not nearly as important from a performance perspective.įamiliarize Yourself With Voltage and Temperature Normsīefore getting started, I recommend familiarizing yourself with the voltage/temperature behavior of you CPU at stock. Those are also listed in order of performance. By doing so, we can more effectively ensure that each piece is stable before we combine them. After your hardware is ready to go, we need to isolate components for testing. Make Sure you have applied your thermal interface material correctly and disabled the IGP in the BIOS(assuming you're not using it).
The general idea of the quick fail method (not sure if that's a name, but let's just pretend it is now) is to isolate each component of your build and then push it quickly to failure, then back it off and find the appropriate voltage/speed combo. Overclocking this platform proved to have a steep learning curve, so I figured I'd share my general approach so others could save time getting started.
With a week off of work I decided to upgrade my aging i7-920 x58 platform to a Haswell based i7-4770k/z87. With proper testing, this can be done once on a system and it will remain stable for 24/7/365 use for the life of the platform. Given the time, this can be an interesting pursuit if you like pushing hardware performance to the highest level possible. Overclocking is the process of increasing the clock speed on a system processor with the idea of getting higher performance.