Is it possible to OC with a Sandy bridge on an Asrock z77 motherboard?

[Shocked]

Bought a z77 motherboard because the store was sold out of the older motherboards and the price increase was pretty small (this was a couple of weeks before Ivy bridge was released so I bought a Sandy bridge processor).

So yeah, I have a 2500k i5 processor and I wish to overclock it to around 4 ghz. Keep in mind I know nothing about overclocking. Is it possible to OC with the Sandy processor/Ivy motherboard combination?

Edit: I went into BIOS just then and went to OC tweaker. There was a "OC Turbo configuration". I pressed 4 GHz and it set it for me, not sure if i'll have to do anything else... I downloaded a CPU program that shows the voltage, it's currently 1.280 V running a test and 0.968 V idle - it's running at 4 GHZ.

The temperature idle is around 28-30 degrees celcius, just tried playing Skyrim for 5 mins and there was no problems or temperature spikes

[AtheistDane]

According to Asrock's website their z77 motherboards are fully compatible with i5 2500K, so it shouldn't be a problem.

What CPU cooler do you use, because the stock one is not that good for overclocking?

[Shocked]

According to Asrock's website their z77 motherboards are fully compatible with i5 2500K, so it shouldn't be a problem.

What CPU cooler do you use, because the stock one is not that good for overclocking?

I'm using a coolermaster hyper 212 cooler for the CPU so it shouldn't have any problems. Will it be fine after what I just did? According to the guide I was following there's heaps of tweaks I dont understand.
http://www.overclock.net/t/1198504/s...srock-edition#

[AtheistDane]

Yeah, well if you're not sure about the tweaks, then either read up on them or stick to the auto overclocking feature. I do not own a z77 motherboard so I couldn't tell you a lot about overclocking on that chipset.

A Hyper 212 should be okay for 4GHz, but I wouldn't try to push it much higher than that.
And maybe running a temperature measuring program such as CPUID Hardware Monitor, just to be on the safe side.
Do you use the standard fan?

[Crazyeyesreaper]

yes you can overclock in fact Z77 boards overclock the older Sandybridge CPUs better then the Z68 or P67 motherboards do.

[Shocked]

Thanks for the info guys, i'll keep it on auto and keep checking temp just incase, i've downloaded the program that tests CPU stress and it found no problems.

I'm doing a sensor test and it's heating up the CPU on purpose to see.. at 50% the CPU went up to around 50 degrees celcius (this was at 100% CPU load).. for the rest of the test it stayed around that temp so i'm guessing i'll be fine.