Overclocking a 2500k any help please

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Hello all, had my 2500k 5 years now. And not really overclocked it all that much. Attempted it but never really knew if it was done correct. So i always
reverted back to stock.

Cpu cooler has been changed and in there for a few years, its an Antec KÜHLER H2O 620.

Motherboard is msi p67 gd65 b3 had to rma it as the first batch was defective i remember.

Any advice and tips would be most welcome. I can always press the OC genie button but thats not gonna be the best results i can imagine.

Thanks to all that help.
 
Nice one lads. Got 4.4 no issues just gonna keep lowering that V core. Very easy quite shocked.

I have another 2500k rig also so gonna do that with that also.
 
gooseuk said:
Hello all, had my 2500k 5 years now. And not really overclocked it all that much. Attempted it but never really knew if it was done correct. So i always
reverted back to stock.

Cpu cooler has been changed and in there for a few years, its an Antec KÜHLER H2O 620.

Motherboard is msi p67 gd65 b3 had to rma it as the first batch was defective i remember.

Any advice and tips would be most welcome. I can always press the OC genie button but thats not gonna be the best results i can imagine.

Thanks to all that help.
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Haha amazing. I have the same setup and thinking of doing the same thing xD
 
harryface said:
Haha amazing. I have the same setup and thinking of doing the same thing xD
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I set it to 4.4ghz and it seems fine no issues. I have been away in oxford for 3 days so not had tons of testing.

Seems stable but i am betting the vcore can go down abit more.

Defo worth ago by all means.

Pump noise not heard any at all.
 
V core been dropped all seems stable and perfect. Will look at improvements abit later on.

Abit more life left in the old girl yet woo ha.
 
Nice one fella. what vcore you running? I've been running 1.33vcore (bios) for 4.5GHz, which drops to about 1.32 in CPU-Z. That's a pretty standard chip though - not particularly great or bad I think.
 
As we speak for this 4.4ghz clock. I have dropped the vcore to 1.280v. In cpz is goes to 1.288 every once and while.

Now i have not done any stress testing or anything like that. I played call of duty black ops 3 quite abit yesterday and no crashes or anything and was live streaming it.

So in all it seems quite good. See how it goes as the cold weather maybe helping it abit also haa.
 
had mine running at 4.6Ghz with 1.38vcore sitting at 60degrees full load, with a phanteks PH-TC14PE for about 4 years now rock solid.
i would push it higher, what are your temps like at 4.4 with that voltage, i imagine pretty low.
 
I pushed it down the vcore to try my luck to 1.270v had it running for 25 mins on black ops3 and its just crashed whilst i came back from the kitchen. So back up to 1.280v should be fine from there.

Yeah low as 38 idol. High as 58 whilst playing cod ( Only game i play really at the moment ha )

So yeah pretty darn cool. I am looking at changing the thermal past but i am finding the cpu cooler abit of a bugger to get off haa.


Defo some room for improvement. But for now keeping it steady.
 
Mine was pre-clocked back in 2011 by OCuk at 4.6ghz (bundle) but when I did an upgrade to the BIOS to try and fix a problem I lost the profile! (Will be long out of warranty now) Got it back up to 4.3ghz at 1.3v and going to try and push the clock as 1.3v much as I can when I get time, that was my first attempt so I overcompensated on the Vcore. I only really get time to play WoW these days but it does make a difference during raids. Trying to hold out getting new parts till whenever the next Elder Scrolls game comes out.
 
why not use dynamic / adaptive vcore ? will down clock the voltage when the multiplier down clocks in windows
 
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