Overclocking & Tweaking

RAM Selection for Overclocking

Currently I have 4 X 4 GB Corsair CMZ16GX3M4X1866C9After reading some articles on here I understand that RAM is very important when overclocking.I have decided to up the anti and buy some new RAM. Can someone explain why the prices of these sticks ar...

clearing CMOS

asus crosshair IV formulaLooked online and it says move the jumper from 1-2 to 2-3 for 10-15 seconds but then move it backby just moving the jumpers for 10-15 seconds it will clear the cmos?any help would be appreciated here. My chip came out with m...

mPCIe wifi card (VI Formula) waking up from sleep mode issues

Asus Maximus VI FormulaBroadcom 802.11ac network adapterBIOS Ver. 0714I've tried looking around for a solution to this, but every time I wake my computer from sleep, the wifi won't pick up any networks. I tried resetting the adapter, reinstalling the...

SPEEDSTEP lower limit?

Hi peoples,I've got my system successfully OC'd to 4.8GHz (I can go higher but I'm lazy to tinker right now). I've disabled SPEEDSTEP in the bios so I can have the CPU locked in at my OC speed. I really want to re-enable SPEEDSTEP to take advantage o...

CPU Temperatures

Just wondering the most accurate way to measure my CPU temps.........I have the AI Suite II that came with the board but I have read a lot of forums saying to use coretemp and realtemp because they are the most accurate......and my real question is h...

Problems with turbo mode under linux

Hi,some Days ago I bought a Maximus VI Hero together with a Core i7 4770k. I have a dual boot system with Win 8 64bit and Linux Mint 16 64bit (Ubuntu 13.10).Under Windows I testet everything is working and the benchmarks running fine. AI Suite 3 is s...

Asus Rampage iv Extreme Overclocking Guide Help Plz

Dear Friends,Please help me regarding OC my system, i love my system a lot and just i need to know how to do OC and your help will be very very grateful to me. I want to OC my system from 3.8 to 4.4 and i need to know what basic and stable changes i ...

Newbie's basic questions about Sabertooth Z87 UEFI BIOS

Hi guys.This is my first post so please bear with me.Just got a new machine:i7-4770K (Haswell)512 GB Samsung 840 Pro (C: - bootable)WD Caviar black (D: - data)32GB Kingston valueRAM DDR3-1600 (non XMP!!!)Cooler Master CPU coolerCooler Master 650W pow...

OCKO Launches! Download now and try it out! [Open Beta]

http://rog.asus.com/rog-pro/ocknockout/More details: http://rog.asus.com/156012012/overclocking/what-is-oc-knockout/Try out our latest ROG software - OC Knockout! It's completely free and in open beta until Dec 31st. Please help us to test and let us...

Delidded 3770k

Well I delidded my 3770k to try and see if I can lower the temps on it a little. It was definitely scary as this is my first computer build that I have done and all was working excellent but its the fun of it to see what will happen but it went unde...

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