Safe overclock speed for 2500K?

Crowbar Crazy · 17 Mar 2011 at 13:38

Hi was wondering what would be a good starter overclock for the 3.30 i5

Never overclocked before and will be using a good cpu cooler like silver arrow or H70.

Thanks in advance

thunderflash · 17 Mar 2011 at 14:49

This is the guide I used, there is a settings guide for ASUS, MSI and Gigabyte there. It's a good starting point anyway and easy to understand for a beginner.

seekdestroy · 17 Mar 2011 at 17:05

Safe overclock is somewhere between 4.6-4.8ghz, any more and you need 1.4v+. But OcUK recommend safe volts are 1.32v-1.35v, and recommend not to go over 1.38v. I'm running at 4.6 @ 1.34v atm.

Crowbar Crazy · 18 Mar 2011 at 13:28

Thanks for the replies, I'll aim for 4.5 overclock then cheers and thanks for the guide link looks promising

joemo13 · 18 Mar 2011 at 13:42

seekdestroy said:
Safe overclock is somewhere between 4.6-4.8ghz, any more and you need 1.4v+. But OcUK recommend safe volts are 1.32v-1.35v, and recommend not to go over 1.38v. I'm running at 4.6 @ 1.34v atm.

Is that without vdrop?

Devrij · 18 Mar 2011 at 14:18

I go by 1.35V in Windows with llc set to high. That gets me to 4.7