Lucky_n00b

Hi there, congratulations for your first step in overclocking! You already have a working laptop, so that makes things easier to pick a PC just for learning overclocking. Here's what I recommend for some first time-builder: Keep things cheap and simple (so on the rare case you do break it, it's not that big of a deal) Depending on budget, there's lots you can choose. I wanted to give skylake i3 to do Non-K OC since it's more modern and upgradeable, but Z170 motherboard and the platform overall cost are not that cheap, and since the oc is 'unofficial' there's a couple things you cannot do with non-K OC (IGP is disabled, XTU is crippled without AVX), so I'm probably not going to suggest that. Some of my really cheap options but still offers plenty to learn are: A) Intel Based, DDR3 Processor: Pentium G3258 Anniversary Motherboard: Any Cheap Z97, like ASRock Z97 Anniversary Board RAM: Any cheap 2x4GB DDR3 will do, in my country the Team Vulcan DDR3-2133 2x4GB can be had for 50 USD, and that's using quite a good ICs that can reach 2600+ on some system GPU: Integrated(IGP) will do SSD: Any 120GB SSD Cooling: No need to be too fancy, something along the lines of medium-sized Heatsink are Enermax ETS-T40 or B) AMD APU based, DDR3 Processor: AMD A8-7650K or 7670K Motherboard: Any cheap A88X motherboard(even some A68 will do), ASUS A88XM-A or ASRock FM2A88X Extreme6+ RAM: Same as above, cheap 2x4GB DDR3 will do GPU: AMD's integrated GPU is quite powerful SSD: Same as above Cooling: AMD A8-7650K/7670K offers a '95W' quiet cooler that's OK-ish to do some mild OC, but if you can spend more to buy medium-sized heatsink why not Any two of the above should be suffice to learn the basics of overclocking, such as: - Knowing what BIOS variables to change - What software to change settings on-the-fly on the OS - I suggest Integrated graphics since IGP tuning involves playing a lot with RAM as well, which will be important in competitive OC later - Learning the benchmarks(just running some benchmark to see what variables increases the score, etc) - The more important things, these two platform can scale quite well using more advanced cooling if you wish to do so (like waterchiller / Dry Ice when you're ready) I think to make your learning process easier, no need to think about BIOS mods & hardware mods on the first try, your priority should be: 1) Knowing what your system can do, and how to maximise it 2) Installing some benchmarks and running it on your system, while figuring out how to maximise the score Hope that helps

Nice Guide Allen :ws: :ws: Now hopefully I've annoyed the Indo's ASRock distributor enough so they see my message asking to buy this stuff for review

Dat CPU Freq :eek:

I Wanted to buy some flight ticket soon, jusy want to confirm: is there an oc/benching event after computex? If not I can go back on the 5th then..

Hahah, actually I did kill this one. Once I go past 1.82V on GT Voltage suddenly the IGP don't want to run at default. But there's overclocker giving 1.9V on the GT and don't kill the GPU, I still wonder how..

Whoa! :eek: Excellent result man

Impressive!!

Pretty cool slide Looking forward to see Computex and the World Tour this year, hopefully the oc competition schedule is not too tight

MONSTER clock! Congrats!

How many 845 have you tested bro? I tested 3 and all have similar default Turbo VID at 1.475 - 1.4875V, Rather high compared to some other Kaveri athlons (except Godavari APU 7870k/7890k). Maybe these chips is already running close to its FMax? That would answer why AMD don't release K-version of these Athlon.

@flanker: That 4.6Ghz is SICK man! And Only 1.6V? Mine won't even pass 4.2 for cinebench at that VCore, let's see if I can push it more when there's dry ice around

Great one Allen!

Scaaaary CPU :D

Sad but true. That being said, if there's a method (like a 'wrapper' Splave said) to correctly determine the maximum CPU or GPU temperature during the benchmark is ran, in which the security cannot be compromised, and the temp sensor can be trusted, it will open up a whole new possibility of an oc competition. (specific temperature-limited competition that's not only XTU for example)

Great effort and work. Keep pushing it

Agree with Pieter. I think a lot of people just know Daniel as 'the guy with the best CPU'. Well those CPU won't be running at its maximum speed by itself right? Even as someone who overclocks daily and doing oc competition as part of my job, I sometimes struggled to put out good scores out of certain hardware configuration. It really took dedication to be pushing the hardware to its limit every single time, both in online competition and live competition - and in that regard Daniel excels in both I got the honor of sitting beside him on the Galax GOC, so I knew that his skill in preparation, setup and handling system is better than most competitive overclocker I've met, should be on the same class as top live bencher like XA and Vivi. Keep pushing it, @Dancop!

:eek: EPIC score as always man

That is amazing Fastest AFR ever? Great effort from memory master :ws:

Hahahahahahah just trying to guess how the klevv module will perform tomorrow under the time limit :p

So far, I don't find MSI Non-K BIOS with XP ACPI Support man. You might want to select MPS Multiprocessor mode during the install

@Massman: Question: Would you be able to tell us the OS that the contestant in the MOA Qualifier uses? Or there is no OS limitation and they can use whatever OS? Thanks!

Wuhan Survivor FTW! Congrats Andrew! :D

Just in case you guys wanted some reading material, I've just finished my short hands-on article about the X4 845(experiences, settings, thoughts, etc). Article Link Here It's in Indonesian, but I've checked that Google translate works ok-ish, and all the tables are in English anyway. Enjoy and hopefully that info is helpful

MOA 2016!! :eek: I soooooo wanna go there

Sub 11 Minutes, 4.3Ghz and 1.6Ghz NB :eek: What BCLK did you boot into OS?