Help needed to lower overclock

Hello Windows Seven Forum community!

As I state in the title, I need help lowering my overclock. The reason being I'm afraid my temperatures get too high while gaming. While playing Dragon Age Inquisition, CoreTemp showed 65° or higher as max temperature for all cores, and I read somewhere on the Internet that it's not safe.

I'd like to do it myself, but I'm really not competent enough and I'm afraid I might do more harm than good (I actually overclocked following instructions on Tom'shardware forum).

I'll attach my overclocking results after testing them the first time.

Let me know if bios screens are needed.

Thanks a lot,

Ghebbis

Hello "Ghebbis" You shouldn't have to much trouble lowering your clocks of your CPU, restart your PC, hit the applicable key to enter your bios before windows boots up, lookup your multiplier (in your attachment it's the 99.99 x 42.0) and simply enter and number below your current 42, then hit the save and restart, enter the bios again to verify changes and temps.

If You have proper thermal grease applied to your CPU, with stock fan you could have a nice stable 37 multiplier with maximum temp under load comfortably @ 40°C.

Good luck, and don't change more than one bios setting at a time each restart or anything other in the bios before internet investigating what it affects first.

Thank you very much iTRiP, I think that did it! I'll keep your advice in mind next time :)

Btw, what temperatures do you think I shouldn't exceed while gaming? 'Cause I'd like to keep mu cpu at 4.0 Ghz, in order to justify my Macho Rev. A purchase

Thanks in advance

I think I spoke too soon.. I opened coretemp right after restarting my pc and the core loads were roller-coasting like crazy.. Max temperatures never exceeded 55° but I'm worried something isn't right. I'll attach some screens from my bios prior to the changes, so you can take a better look and tell me if you think everything is ok.

P.S: furthermore, minimum temperatures registered were all around 40°..

Guys I found out today that I'm waaaay too uninformed to keep my system overclocked. I decided to switch everything back to default and put oc off 'till I am more knowladgeable. Thanks for your help anyways, I really appreciated it.
Take care everyone,
Ghebbis

RolandJS said:

Ghebbis, I'd like to do the same thing you're doing, I can't see well enough to recognize which program or utility you're using that gives you the core clocks. Is it from System Internals or Windows or from a 3rd party?

Hey Roland, if you're referring to CPU-Z, I downloaded it from here : CPU-Z - Download

Otherwise I used CoreTemp to register temperatures and Intel Burn Test to run a stress test. Hope I was able to help

Forgive me, that's in Italian. You might want to downlaod it from here: CPU-Z | Softwares | CPUID