Starting to get a little worried...

[JJXS]

I have mentioned in another thread about how useless I can be with Hardware and all things Bios.

Spoke to a mate who recommended to overclock my i5 2500K, all I needed to do is go into Bios update the CPU multiplier to 4.1 and nothing else to overclock my CPU.

Which, I would say has gone well and is showing on CPUID as that clock speed. However, just on general browsing, the CoreTemp on HWMonitor is reaching mid 50's which seems very high.

The auto Vcore voltage is around 1.3, should I be looking at something else or to fix this value?

Set up is:

O/S Windows 7 Professional 64-bit SP1
CPU Intel Core i5 2500K @ 3.30GHz Sandy Bridge 32nm Technology
RAM 8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 802MHz (11-11-11-28)
Motherboard Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. Z68XP-UD3P (Socket 1155)
Graphics 1024MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti (Gigabyte)

Cooling is an Antec 300 case with Artic i3 CPU fan.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers

 

[wazza300]

yes

set cpu vcore to normal in the voltage list and try dvid -0.050 to start with which = 1.25v at load instead of 1.3v

if stable you might be able to lower it further

lower voltage = lower temps

and why are you running 1 stick single channel?? your losing half the performance,get two sticks for dual channel

 

[JJXS]

Cheers Waaza, have changed the settings as advised, looks good

Not sure what you mean about 1 stick single channel, have two Gskill 2GB @ 802 GHz (which I will be upgrading to 1600 in the coming weeks) is there a setting I'm missing to enable dual channel? Or just Speccy getting it wrong?

 

[wazza300]

Ahh ok in your spec it says single channel 8gb

Two 2gb sticks will run in dual channel so your fine,see how it is over next few days then try and undervolt more by using more negative offset -0.060v,-0.070v ect