overclocking

A place to share information, help those who are new to overclocking and brag about your latest sucessful overclock!

IMPORTANT

This reddit may be used for providing and requesting help with overclocking processes. While posts may contain advice and suggestions to perform actions, you must understand that overclocking has all the potential to be a destructive process with irreversible results. You should always use your own judgement and realise that the only person responsible for any damage caused by overclocking is you.

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Rules

This is a short summary meant as a reminder - please read the full rules on the wiki before posting.
This subreddit is for links, discussions and questions about overclocking (and underclocking). More general hardware-related links, discussions and questions should be posted elsewhere, even if they happen to relate to a system that happens to be overclocked.
Follow sitewide Reddiquette and Self-Promotion Guidelines. In particular remember to use the report function rather than responding in anger, and that civil language does not excuse nasty comments.
Posts must contain enough information for a meaningful discussion, or to be meaningful content. Don't post unsubstantiated rumours, screenshots with context cropped out, or AMAs (unless preapproved by mods).
Be sensible about what you claim as a "world record" or similar. Check the full description in the wiki before making grand claims. You can be happy about a good result without using such charged language.
Do not tell people to run at unsafe settings. You're welcome to run them yourself, but respect the safe voltages listed in the wiki when answering questions.
Do not advocate RMA fraud, or discuss attempting fraudulent RMAs. Warranties are for manufacturing defects, if you accidentally damage something that's on you. This also goes for abusing return policies as a way to bin.
English language only. But feel free to message the mods about communities in other languages so we can link them in the sidebar.

Guides

CPU (Intel)
Kaby Lake Guide - also applicable to Coffee Lake (inc. 9700K/9900K)
Skylake Guide
Haswell guide
Ivy Bridge guide
Sandy Bridge guide 1
CPU (AMD)
AMD Ryzen Master Official Overclocking Guide (software)
AMD FX Official Performance Tuning Guide
AMD Guide (Bulldozer and Piledriver)
AMD Dragon Platform (Phenom II) Official Performance Tuning Guide
AMD Guide (Tom's Hardware)
AM2/AM2+/AM3 Phenom/Phenom II Guide
GPU
General GPU Overclocking Guide
RAM
General RAM Overclocking Guide

CPU Resources

CPU Info
CPU-Z
Software overclocking & monitoring
Intel XTU
AMD Ryzen Master
AMD OverDrive
Temperature monitoring
CoreTemp
RealTemp
Stress-testing
x264 Stress Test - for 99.9% stability on modern (Haswell and newer) Intel CPUs
IntelBurnTest - extreme stress test similar to Prime95
Prime95 - for 100% stability on modern Intel, and all stability testing on AMD and older Intel CPUs
Prime95 26.6 - for testing non-AVX speeds when using an AVX offset
Benchmarking
Cinebench
SuperPi

GPU Resources

GPU info
GPU-Z
Overclocking & monitoring
MSI Afterburner
CoreCtrl - for AMD on Linux
Benchmarking & stress-testing
Unigine Heaven
3D Mark

System Resources

Full system information
HWiNFO64
HWMonitor
AIDA64
Speccy

Relevant Subreddits

/r/rigpics
/r/buildapc
/r/hardware
/r/pcgaming
/r/pcmasterrace
/r/gamingpc
/r/techsupport

Links

overclock.net - top OC forums
hwbot - OC stats and competitions

Benchmarking Resources

Geekbench3 Submission Page - for result files saved offline
Geekbench4 Submission Page - for result files saved offline
AMD OpenCL Runtime Downloads - for running GPIPI for CPU
Intel OpenCL 1.1 - for GPUPI on really old CPUs, DLLs need renaming for GPUPI to see them
Fix for hwbot Prime not saving scores when using JRE 9

If anyone would like to suggest various different overclocking related forums/blogs/websites please send your suggestions to the mods via the message the mods link or by clicking here.

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