Overclocking a 2500k 4.5 vcore problem

[maxmw]

Hi today I decided to Overclock my i5 2500k to 4.5 Ghz. I am fairly new to overclocking so I followed this guide, (I have a Gigabyte P67A-D3-B3 so a similar model to the one in the guide) I followed the guide exactly until it came to changing the vcore when I suddenly realized that there was no setting to change the vcore. After some research I found out that the board automatically changes the vcore so I went ahead with the overclock and booted into windows, where I ran a few load tests which all did very well with a temperature of 35 at idol and 65 at load the only thing I found strange was that the vcore voltage in cpuz was not changing and was staying at 1.116 V that can not be right can it ? I am also worried that the motherboard might make the vcore to high and damage the cpu is that possible ?

Thx in advance

 

[smithy83]

you have prob disabled c3/c6 state and c1e which are the power saving features which auto drop the vcore down when the system is idle. when your overclocking you should be disabling this anyway.

as long your temps are below 70 at full load you should be fine

 

[IvanDobskey]

Doesnt sound right as that voltage seems far too low for 4.5ghz. My chip needs about 1.35v for that clockspeed. I know all chips vary but that still seems too low.

 

[TwsT]

Are you using the latest version of CPU-z?

old CPU-Z doesn't work with Gigabyte boards. It doesn't report the Vcore properly


a 4.5 OC on the ap d3 should be about 1.34V at the most. Very good board for low Overclocks.


If you install Gigabytes Easy tune then it will show you the voltage your cpu is actually running at.

 

[Justintime]

a 4.5 OC on the ap d3 should be about 1.34V at the most. Very good board for low Overclocks.


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How can you say that? I've met many a 2500/2600k that would disagree, to the point of freezing at boot with anything less than 1.36-1.37v on boot at 4.5, no two chips are the same.