i5 2500K First time OC

wildest_jjk · 21 Apr 2014 at 17:21

Hi,

I was wondering if you could help me overclock my i5 2500K to get a bit more life out of it?

My motherboard is an MSI P67A-GD65 and I have a CM Hyper 212+. Hopefully that is all the information you need, anything else I can give as well.

I'm really worried about doing this as I don't want to fry it.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

wildest_jjk · 21 Apr 2014 at 17:31

Ok thanks for your response

So multiplier is the only thing I need to change? I assume I am running prime to check?

Thanks!

wildest_jjk · 21 Apr 2014 at 17:39

Ok then guys, thanks for the help.

I will give this a go, changing the multiplier can't be too bad to begin with haha.

wildest_jjk · 23 Apr 2014 at 00:36

I haven't got round to doing this just yet. One thing i have noticed is that my core clock speed keeps dropping whilst in games.

If I look at CPU-Z the core speed keeps dropping to like 1.5GHz. However my game keeps lagging etc. I have tried disabling EIST before but it seemed to make no difference at all. Does anyone know why this might be?

Thanks

wildest_jjk · 23 Apr 2014 at 16:30

Well it's DayZ lol. I am getting a new graphics card shortly though. I'm just not sure if it is the card or not.

Thanks

wildest_jjk · 23 Apr 2014 at 18:08

Ok stupid question now, I cannot for the life of me see the turbo multiplier option. Could it be something else?

There are options for all four course and also the core multiplier?

wildest_jjk · 23 Apr 2014 at 18:36

Ok I think these are the most useful settings:

Any help will be greatly appreciated

wildest_jjk · 24 Apr 2014 at 11:46

dougal1331 said:
The core multiplier is 'Adjust CPU ratio' in the second screenshot.
Don't worry about the per-core ratios in the bottom shot, they always vary a little from the main setting.
If any help, I always kept C1E enabled with my 2500K... And get XMP switched on!

Thank you for your response

So the 'Adjust CPU ratio' is the same thing as the turbo multiplier? If I up that to 42 or something first then just see how my computer performs? No other changes are necessary?

And I should enable C1E and XMP?

Thanks

wildest_jjk · 25 Apr 2014 at 19:34

Okay thanks for all the responses guys.

I will probably be trying this tomorrow as my GPU has come today as well. I'll post back with the results.

Cheers

wildest_jjk · 26 Apr 2014 at 14:56

Ok CPU is now at 4.2GHz. It's not lowering when idle though like was mentioned previously. Does this matter or should I enable C1E?

I have only been running for about 10 minutes but have played DayZ. This is what it currently looks like:

wildest_jjk · 26 Apr 2014 at 15:19

With a bit more playing:

wildest_jjk · 26 Apr 2014 at 15:25

I've just enabled C1E now as well and clock drops etc.