The Official Core i5 Overclocking Thread

easyrider · 8 Sep 2009 at 18:13

Please post your clocks and screenshots.

Best kept seperate from the ***The Official Core i7 Overclocking Thread***

Where is Jokester when you need him

Tom|Nbk · 8 Sep 2009 at 18:44

I wondered how long it'd take you

Arthalen · 8 Sep 2009 at 18:51

*Grins* Knew you'd turn up sooner or later, Easy.

@ Tom: Hope you get your bundle soon mate, saw the MSI thread over in the motherboard section.

@ All: Enjoy ya i5's, hope they clock like mad and the 750 becomes the new E6600

rjk · 8 Sep 2009 at 19:12

easyrider · 8 Sep 2009 at 19:17

rjkoneill said:
link

Wise to mix up i7 and i5 in the same thread?

Tom|Nbk · 8 Sep 2009 at 19:20

I personally only want to see how I5's are doing.

rjk · 8 Sep 2009 at 19:33

easyrider said:
Wise to mix up i7 and i5 in the same thread?

same socket

both run dual channel memory

im not arguing over it, or changing thread titles

easyrider · 8 Sep 2009 at 19:49

rjkoneill said:
same socket

both run dual channel memory

im not arguing over it, or changing thread titles

With respect one has HT the other does not.

For simplicty and comparing clocks it should be

***The Official Core i5 Overclocking Thread***

***The Official Core i7 Lynnfield Overclocking Thread***

easyrider · 8 Sep 2009 at 19:53

Tom|Nbk said:
I personally only want to see how I5's are doing.

Me too.

Duke · 8 Sep 2009 at 21:20

Will post results tomorrow

I only have the stock heatsink but have the adapter for the Noctua on its way but could be a week or so.

easyrider · 8 Sep 2009 at 21:43

Duke said:
Will post results tomorrow I only have the stock heatsink but have the adapter for the Noctua on its way but could be a week or so.

Sweet can'y wait for the results on stock...Will be very interested on temps.

Tom|Nbk · 8 Sep 2009 at 23:03

Duke said:
Will post results tomorrow I only have the stock heatsink but have the adapter for the Noctua on its way but could be a week or so.

Looking forward to this, I'm going to be using stock aswell for now until the H50 1156 is out.

Moeks · 8 Sep 2009 at 23:09

Likewise, the stock cooler is really, really poor too. Once I have the fitting bracket for my Noctua I will post what I get.

Duke · 9 Sep 2009 at 13:59

Arrived and installed. Just sat at stock whilst I check everything.

I notice the speedstep is more advanced, it has several drops in speed rather just one.

I have the Asus P7P55D board which looks amazing. The spec and build quality on these current boards are great. It has 6 USB on the back and three headers on the board and has the auto memory tweaker button, etc.

Also Win 7 went in right away without needing a repair. I guess it helped coming from another Intel chipset (P35). It just needed one reboot to sort itself out and it then did a Windows Update and found updated Realtek LAN driver and ACIP device (ATK)(?)

easyrider · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:04

Duke said:
Arrived and installed. Just sat at stock whilst I check everything.

I notice the speedstep is more advanced, it has several drops in speed rather just one.

Cool.

Keep the updates coming.

Max clock on stock cooling would be dandy

linktoinsanity · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:08

Looks interesting Duke. I'll be getting my i5 kit to go with my new promo motherboard in the next couple of months. Let us know how your overclocking goes

Duke · 9 Sep 2009 at 14:11

Just doing BIOS update (0209 to 0501) then will get overclocking.

Looks like a newer one is listed but not sure why it isnt on the download list

[ 0606 ]
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Support Low Voltage DRAM Module

[ 0501 ]
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Improve system stability

[ 0403 ]
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1. Improve memory compatibility
2. Improve USB device stability
3. Fix Crashfree function error with Support CD BIOS image
4. Show OC turner options in BIOS setup
5. Revise default values of Turbo Key
6. Set default of T.Probe option to enabled

[ 0209 ]
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First release Bios

Duke · 9 Sep 2009 at 15:02

Load testing at 'stock' which auto OC's to 2.8GHz is a toasty 70c on load (all cores with OCCT). Not sure why Intel included the small heatsink when they could have done with one a bit taller like the older ones.

Tom|Nbk · 9 Sep 2009 at 15:25

Duke said:
Load testing at 'stock' which auto OC's to 2.8GHz is a toasty 70c on load (all cores with OCCT). Not sure why Intel included the small heatsink when they could have done with one a bit taller like the older ones.

Because it's more than adequate for stock usage.

manic111 · 9 Sep 2009 at 15:31

Duke said:
Also Win 7 went in right away without needing a repair. I guess it helped coming from another Intel chipset (P35). It just needed one reboot to sort itself out and it then did a Windows Update and found updated Realtek LAN driver and ACIP device (ATK)(?)

So did you not bother doing a full re-install? Everything work OK? I'm also coming from P35, and don't want to do a full re-install now, and then again in a month when Win 7 retail comes through my letterbox. Is it an OK thing to do for a month or so?

Did you have to un-install any drivers or anything, or just put the hardware in and stick the motherboard's disk in afterwards to install its drivers?