Why reduce overclock?

[spankingtexan]

I am after a 2500k i5 overclocked bundle but want at least 6 gig of ram.

Overclockers only doing 4 gig bundles and state that adding in extra ram to spare slots will require new bios settings, is there any way of increasing the ram without having to change bios settings and reducing the overclock?

would it be possible to remove the two 2 gig sticks and replace them with two 4 gig sticks so that I am not adding in extra ram to the spare slots and therfore not have to change bios settings?

Why don't overclockers sell 2500k i5 bundles with more ram?

Please help, thanks.

 

[silworth]

It will most likely require a touch more voltage to the memory and perhaps the cpu (to stabilise the increased load on the internal memory controller).

It's nothing tricky, and certainly won't go beyond the voltage specs of the motherboard, RAM and CPU.

 

[R088ieS86]

Am just guessing but gaming doesn't use 4GB of RAM. Which is the main use for the i5-2500K.
Why not buy the bits seperately and overclock it yourself?
With the P67/Z68 boards its as simple as clicking an overclock button!

 

[Plec]

Overclockers only doing 4 gig bundles and state that adding in extra ram to spare slots will require new bios settings, is there any way of increasing the ram without having to change bios settings and reducing the overclock?

If you drop OcUK a note - pre-sales forum - they should be able to adapt a bundle with 2 x 4Gb modules.

 

[stulid]

Buy as separates, its stupid easy, some MSI boards even have a one hit OCGenie button to give an instant 4.2GHZ.


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If you want to go higher by doing it yourself, then there is a guide here also using a MSI board,

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/07/how-to-overclock-the-intel-core-i5-2500k/1

 

[ewarwoowar]

Am just guessing but gaming doesn't use 4GB of RAM. Which is the main use for the i5-2500K.
Why not buy the bits seperately and overclock it yourself?
With the P67/Z68 boards its as simple as clicking an overclock button!

Not correct

gigabytes proper BIOS are all still old school.(The best way)

Do what everyone is suggesting and do it yourself. It's so stupidly easy now, it's even a walk in a park compared to the old i5s.

The amount of tweaking needed to get stable on 4.5ghz+ is so minimal

 

[paradigm]

gigabytes proper BIOS are all still old school.

Not correct

Why do people keep spouting this. uEFI does NOT mean a nice pretty UI where you can use the mouse, that is just ONE thing that uEFI allows for.

Gigabyte now use uEFI on their top-end boards, they just kept a legacy interface.

 

[spankingtexan]

Right ok thanks, the mere mention of do it myself brought me out in a cold sweat, I have only just been convinced to fit the mobo into the case myself as the last time i tried this I fried the mobo but am feeling it's time to give it a go thanks to help from you guys in an earlier post.

I am really not up on this tech stuff and almost always do it wrong even the simplest of tasks but will check out vids.

Thanks for the advise and that components list from stulid is just brill, couldn't believe the price. The pre sales forum link is also tops and i'll certainly be using that. Not purchasing till November so plenty of time to get watching the vids. Thanks everyone.

 

[nuttyprot]

Right ok thanks, the mere mention of do it myself brought me out in a cold sweat, I have only just been convinced to fit the mobo into the case myself as the last time i tried this I fried the mobo but am feeling it's time to give it a go thanks to help from you guys in an earlier post.

I am really not up on this tech stuff and almost always do it wrong even the simplest of tasks but will check out vids.

Thanks for the advise and that components list from stulid is just brill, couldn't believe the price. The pre sales forum link is also tops and i'll certainly be using that. Not purchasing till November so plenty of time to get watching the vids. Thanks everyone.

Secret of success is patience.

Don't rush it take your time. If you don't have antistatic wrist strap make sure to ground yourself. (Plenty of ways to do this just google)

 

[spankingtexan]