Hello there mate, never apologise about working or being busy. Now if you wonder over to danks thread you can see how he has progressed with some basic stuff. The principle is the same. Start small and work your way up to optimal 24/7 settings.
With the current ASUS bios settings you can leave most things on auto.
Here is what I would do to start off.
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In bios F5 and enter to set all to defaults.
Now if you are running a RAID array set SATA mode to RAID or in not ignore this step.
Back to the main OC page.
Mode of OC to XMP profile. This sorts out your memory and you can now forget about it for the minute.
Select change multi all cores and start with 40x
Leave all else on auto
F10 and enter to save and boot to OS.
Two options here. One you can not enter OS, two if you pass and enter OS run ROG Realbench stress test for 15mins. Check your temps using one application only. I like HWMonitor the standalone application, as it requires no installation. Coupled with the latest version of CPUz it is pretty much all you need.
Make a note of your voltage in CPUz while the stress test is running.
It is more likely that you will enter OS than not.
Repeat the above process and change the multi up by 1 each time until such time that you do not pass the stress test. Check what the voltage was and make a note of it.
You then can go into the bios and navigate down to the CPU voltage
Select manual mode and enter in a value slightly higher than that which you wrote down. For example if your voltage at 4400MHz was set by the auto function to 1.125 set it to 1.140. DO NOT change by huge steps. Your max voltage you should be looking at is in the 1.300 to 1.350 range.
One last thing let temps be your guide. What that means is if your system gets to hot during the stress test then drop back a multi and thereby reduce your voltage too. 85'C is the upper limit for a stress test. Personally I like 70'C for my system during a stress test. That gives me a 55 - 60 'C under max load in games or normal useage.
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