P55 Overclocking Guide

Warning: Overclocking is something you do at your own risk. Intel does not officially support overclocking. Overclocking will void the warranty of your CPU. Then again, so does adding new CPU coolers and thermal paste.

Overclocking is becoming more common since it's a good way to alleviate CPU bottlenecks. Thankfully, overclocking on P55 based motherboards is not an extremely difficult task as you are about to see. For this guide, I am using the EVGA P55 FTW motherboard, Intel Core i5 760 and G.SKILL ECO 2 x 2 GB DDR3 1600 CL7 memory. Many of these terms and strategies apply to X58 overclockers as well.

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GPU Overclocking guide

Some people are unsure on how to overclock the GPU. Quite frankly, the GPU is the easiest thing to overclock in a system.  The first thing I recommend is to grab some useful programs and the latest drivers. The programs I recommend are Rivatuner, MSI Afterburner, or EVGA Precision (for the overclocking/monitoring), GPU-Z (monitoring/GPU info), and OCCT, Furmark, MSI Kombustor, or EVGA OC Scanner for stability testing.  Once you download these, you're ready to get started!


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