2500K Max OC???
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your temps are very high but its a good clockers, my temps are low and i have an okl clocker
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Unstable at 5ghz, and would not boot and anything over 5ghz on 2 or 1 cores
Yeah i know my temps are high
insufficient water cooling but there are going to be some changes soon 
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Ah, shame. Can often get a couple of multipliers higher before further tweaking to stabilize.
It all depnds on your mobo, cooler and temps you get
I dont use prime, run a few tests with LinX, then game and use your system.
there is no situation where you PC is at 100% for hour's on end, i had a system running prime for 8hr then when i stopped prime and opened firefox i got a blue screen
I am now running 4.8Ghz @ 1.425v i will not be going and higher i am happy with that.
Just been gaming for 1hr and temp on the cores are 52 53 56 57. and now idleing at 30 28 32 32. That will do me just fine.
The one thing i am confused about is HWmonitor was shoing the package drawing 125w but now i enabled turbo and put clock up 0.3Ghz and V core up 0.075 it only draws 75w under load?
there was nothing, if anything when i did boot at 5Ghz it was more unstable then on 4 cores. the 1 core may have been the weak core
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It all depnds on your mobo, cooler and temps you get
I dont use prime, run a few tests with LinX, then game and use your system.
there is no situation where you PC is at 100% for hour's on end, i had a system running prime for 8hr then when i stopped prime and opened firefox i got a blue screen
I am now running 4.8Ghz @ 1.425v i will not be going and higher i am happy with that.
Just been gaming for 1hr and temp on the cores are 52 53 56 57. and now idleing at 30 28 32 32. That will do me just fine.
Thats pretty awesome
When i get my watercooling and other things *
cough
* New case, tonnes of radiators *
cough* setup, i want to attempt 5.5Ghz, as over time, a lot of people have been pushing the 2500K harder and harder But for now, standard clock speeds
well.... Turbo mode enabled, so 3.7Ghz 
well a new day brings a new addition to the clocking HEAT and lots of it.
Last night i was maxing out in the low 60's, this morning i decided to stress it a bit just so i know its 100% stable and i just hit 76c, and i am not happy with that. I did think my temps was very low but i just went along with it, all i can think is there was a bug of some sort.
Last night i was maxing out in the low 60's, this morning i decided to stress it a bit just so i know its 100% stable and i just hit 76c, and i am not happy with that. I did think my temps was very low but i just went along with it, all i can think is there was a bug of some sort.
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What thermal paste are you running and how old is it? as well, heat slowly kills the thermal paste, i can go up to 100.C before it starts to degrade.
Keep an eye out
as soon as the thermal paste starts to degrade, it wont stop (unless you run very cold )What thermal paste are you running and how old is it? as well, heat slowly kills the thermal paste, i can go up to 100.C before it starts to degrade.
Keep an eye out
I am using EK stuff and its about 8 days old as i only just got the CPU.
I will buy some better stuff but i am getting a new case soon and didnt want to waist some expensive stuff
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Sounds like a good idea, i bought some cheap thermal paste when i first started to overclock my 2500K, watched temps go from 65 in game to 95 just on the pause screen
thats what you get from cheap CPU thermal paste.Now i use the IC Diamond and its absoulty amazing
Just finished stress testing using IBT. 4.8GHz at 1.435v was stable, 1.43v was not.
Using stooeh's suggestion to raise VCCT to 1.15 seems to have helped quite a bit.
Does anyone touch the PLL Voltage as mine is on auto and I don't really know what to do with it.
Using stooeh's suggestion to raise VCCT to 1.15 seems to have helped quite a bit.
Does anyone touch the PLL Voltage as mine is on auto and I don't really know what to do with it.
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Thats good to see, as for PLL, i have never touched it, probably never will, as im happy with my processer overclocking abilities just on voltage control
I will try this and report back. Anyway of measuring PLL voltage in windows. Bios doesn't have a value either afaik.
Just PLL