Overclocking my Hackintosh Pro :)

Anybody know how i can overclock my system and if it is a good idea? Could it mess up my computer regarding booting and what not?

I have watercooling and a i7 4790 K. The motherboard I use is a Gigabyte GA-Z97X-UD7 TH motherboard and a EVGA GeForce GTX 760 graphic card.

I have never overclocked a computer before, can anybody help me trough the steps or maybe send me a link to a tread that suits my system??

Is it just to go into the BIOS and change settings on overclocking or is it more complexed than that?

Do a google-search for a website dedicated to Overclocking.

There are much better tools for monitoring your OC, errors, voltages, temps in Windows... so if you're going to OC you'd be wise to have a Windows install for testing.

The short answer is: Yes, OC can burn out components or degrade them over time. Unstable OC with safe voltages might not damage most of your hardware-- but can result in disk corruption, killing your system install or data. There are absolute voltage thresholds and even voltage ratios between components you should stay within to reduce the risk of damage. Leaving everything on Auto in BIOS but upping frequencies is trusting your BIOS to not over-volt too far (yes, auto can overvolt into dangerous territory; it's not usually recommended).

Your chip runs VERY fast by default (4 Ghz -->4.4 turbo!), so unless you really want to learn about the details (and there's plenty of learning to do if you want to do this safely)... it's not necessarily worth messing around in order to squeeze that extra 10% of performance/clock out of the CPU.

I really enjoy the tweaking that OC'ing involves. And yes, you can get a nice little performance boost in the process. But it's really not for everyone. And it does introduce risks. And if you're going to do it you really should learn how it works and how to test for stability/safety rather than just pull someone else's settings and try them in your system (every chip responds differently).

Thanks for the response justr.

My CPU are pretty fast as you point out to begin with, so probably not worth the risk if I don´t know what the heck I am doing
Will probably do a little more study in the future and then decide.

Probably a good move.

The thing with that chip is that it's essentially already overclocked (it's a faster-clocked version of the 4770K), so there's less headroom to gaining more performance without bumping the voltages and pushing the limits regarding heat.

It's all doable, but definitely a good move to read up on how to overclock that chip+board combination, what the safe parameters are, and how to test for stability.