How to safely overclock my new gaming rig?

So i just bought and built a new gaming rig. the parts are...

cpu - i5-2500k

gpu - asus gtx 560 ti

motherboard - ASUS P8Z68-V PRO

memory - Ripjaws 8gb DDR3 1600

power supply - 750 watt

i also have coolermaster hyper 212 heatsink on my CPU instead of the stock one, inside an antec 900 case, so i think the rig will stay pretty cool between the heatsink and the 4 fans on the case.



i would like to overclock the cpu and the gpu. this is my first time trying to do this, and most of the guides i have read have left me confused as i am new to this and still unfamiliar with the ASUS bios. id like to overclock, but be very safe about it. maybe around 4.4 ghz for the cpu. basically id like to be able to run battlefield 3 on relatively high settings without ever having to worry about burning out my parts from overheating or any other problems.



also, what would be a good website/forum to browse around on when it comes to overclocking?



thanks for the help!How to safely overclock my new gaming rig?
If you have to ask this on Y!A, then overclocking is not for you. Anyway, overclocking usually means 2-5% more computing power, with 25-30% more heat. Do you have the necessary heatsinks, or water cooling to avoid frying your rig in the first month?



4.4GHz for the CPU? Isn't that thing designed for 3.3GHz by default? It's like running your car on 8000 RPM with a redline of 6000. For some reason I guess your next question will be whether the warranty covers the fried CPU, mobo and RAM modules. Hint: no, it doesn't.How to safely overclock my new gaming rig?
First of all Overclocking is risky and you do not want to ruin your new computer.

Why overclocking? you have appropriate specs for a gaming pc.How to safely overclock my new gaming rig?
There is no safe overclocking unless you are a hardware freak and realy know what you are doing. Any extra pressure you put on either your cpu or gpu wil result in a shorter lifespan of those components. The cpu might be safely overclockable by using for instance watercooling, but for gaming the cpu isn't the most important thing. It might be a responsible risk to overclock your videocard (within sensible and preferably documented margins, because a videocard is normally easily replacable and a videocard upgrade is one of the most common and easy upgrades to make). A good idea, especially when overclocking but also when not, is to have a frontpanel on your computer that can regulate the fanspeeds inside your computer and that also displays the internal temperature using it's own sensors (it doesn't matter that much if the readings are accurate in an absolute way, but it''s good to see if it gets hotter or cooler inside your computer) so that you can give your computer some extra cooling on for instance a hot day. ? The cpu is normally not upgradable (compatible cpu's tend to disapear or become extremely expensive after a while) and when it quits it's normally the end of your computer so be carefull with it. For this reason i use a large cpu-cooler with a 120mm fan on my cpu but i don't overclock it, just to make the environment my cpu has to operate in as cool as possible.