2500K @ 5GHZ

NoNameNoNumber · 14 Oct 2013 at 14:35

Had a quick tweak after running it at 4.2GHz on stock voltage for a while and I've now got 5GHz stable on 1.4v!

Temps whilst gaming hit 57*C after 2 hours of Bioshock infinite.

Were all 2500K's this easy to ramp up?

Unicorn · 14 Oct 2013 at 15:51

1.4v exactly? The max voltage for these chips (correct me if am wrong) was 1.52v. Temps look pretty good also. What cooler are you using? If your using water or closed loop water you will want to make sure your voltage regulators still have cooling (Just a draft through the case works alright) or you could degrade the life of your board significantly

Roady · 14 Oct 2013 at 16:32

Like GrimsbyLAD said, check your cooling as pushing that much juice through the CPU doesn't just stress the CPU!

It's also worth running some proper benchmarks and stress tests, a game (which is probably mostly GPU processing based) is ok for a 'basic' test, but for actual stability/stress test, then you need something to push the CPU.

Unicorn · 14 Oct 2013 at 17:30

Benchmarking software is always a good idea.. Prime and test it for 6 hours or so.. You will soon have your answer if its stable and temps are alright

NoNameNoNumber · 14 Oct 2013 at 19:25

I've dropped it back to 4.2, absolutely nothing to be gained @5

Jumper118 · 14 Oct 2013 at 19:28

NoNameNoNumber said:
I've dropped it back to 4.2, absolutely nothing to be gained @5

a higher cinebench score

joelk2 · 14 Oct 2013 at 20:36

internet geek points are gained @ 5ghz

Roady · 15 Oct 2013 at 09:55

epeen bragging rights about pushing a £100 CPU into £400 CPU territory

Scougar · 15 Oct 2013 at 10:01

NoNameNoNumber said:
I've dropped it back to 4.2, absolutely nothing to be gained @5

Run Planetside 2.... you might change your mind

NoNameNoNumber · 15 Oct 2013 at 13:57

Ok so with my stock clock 7950 I gain no real performance increase-not that I can sense anyway. I'm not really into dick dancing over benchmarks, I just wanna play games on ultra with very little noise.

NoNameNoNumber · 14 Nov 2013 at 18:16

Check out this overclock http://valid.canardpc.com/ti2rki

That's under water with vcore @1.4v and 0.060v on the dynamic core whatsit.

Boots and games fine with max cpu temp of 45*C and GPU temp of 42*C!

Ram
11-11-11-28 1600 running at +0.5v 9-10-10-24 @1866MHz

Thats something like a 52%overclock, albeit the pump and all of the fans are flat out but on a single 240mm rad that is insane!