Some of you might get a kick out of this. i5 2500k @ 5ghz stable

[NumbaOneStunna]

So after doing some research, I have come to the conclusion that this is pretty impressive. (Its estimated only 2% of the 2500k's are stable at 5ghz)

Cooler is a Corsair H60 with dual Silverstone case fans, nothing fancy. Ive had it running for 4+ hours before and temps never go above 80c average. Its stable at 1.5vcore but working with the bios trying to get it to stay at exactly 1.5v with speedstep enabled is tricky.

Motherboard is an Asus Maximus V Gene

Idleing, Speedstep working as it should.




Prime95, In place Large TFT's (Maximum Heat) 1 loop completed.
http://donaldleatherwood.com/temp/2500k5ghz.png

[Pancake]

I heard if you wake up every morning and sing to your cpu, they tend to get to 5ghz pretty easy.

Nice job though! I am too scared to take my 2500k past 4ghz stock voltage.

[Deezy]

very nice. I know mine won't go that high

[BNuts]

I want this now, but I'm broke.. I wish the Army paid overtime.... *sigh*

[Ieyasu]

nice overclock. Is it intel burn test stable? Ive had 2500ks that can go for hours on prime95, but freeze in under 2 minutes using ibt. with the h60 and 1.54v on the core i have a feeling ibt would throw your cpu temps around 100c under a real load.

For reference I have a 2500k clocked @ 4.8ghz with 1.45v under a h100 and I can get up into low 80s using ibt. when I up vcore to 1.5 to hit 5ghz stable I can see temps get up into low 90s with push pull config on h100 and fans getting the full 12v. this is with ambient room temp of roughly 23-24c.

[Goku]

leeleatherwood

[Carnage]

-.- not fair... mine is only stable for short periods at 5G... crashes on a bench test, Very rare crash at 4.8G (like once a month)

X3623 3DMarks

[Greeniegriz]

Nice work!

Cheers,

GG


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[NumbaOneStunna]

Originally Posted by Ieyasu

nice overclock. Is it intel burn test stable? Ive had 2500ks that can go for hours on prime95, but freeze in under 2 minutes using ibt. with the h60 and 1.54v on the core i have a feeling ibt would throw your cpu temps around 100c under a real load.

For reference I have a 2500k clocked @ 4.8ghz with 1.45v under a h100 and I can get up into low 80s using ibt. when I up vcore to 1.5 to hit 5ghz stable I can see temps get up into low 90s with push pull config on h100 and fans getting the full 12v. this is with ambient room temp of roughly 23-24c.

During IBT on "Very High" setting, loop 9.


Completed.

[NePaS]

I hope you only run those volts for benchmarking,if you run it at 1.544 24/7 your chip will die(if not outright then after a month or two you will start to suffer from "electromigration" which will degrade the chip requiring it to need more and more volts for a certain speed,which will slowly kill it).

We've learned through trial, error, and dead processors that voltage levels beyond 1.45 V at above-ambient temperatures can kill an Intel CPU etched at 32 nm (Sandy Bridge-based parts included) very quickly.

Taken from Toms:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-cpu,3048.html

Also I hit 5Ghz with 1.472 and I felt that was wayyyyy too high for my liking

cpuz validation:
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=2396471
(24 hours prime stable and IBT stable)

[Zulthus]

All you kids and yer fancy technology... my Athlon only gets 2.8GHz and I game fine

[Rbstr]

Well, if you want to brag about mediocrity....
I believe my i5 runs at 2.66ghz and I know it's faster than your Athlon.

[Zulthus]

Originally Posted by Rbstr

Well, if you want to brag about mediocrity....
I believe my i5 runs at 2.66ghz and I know it's faster than your Athlon.

Should I go get a ruler?

[NumbaOneStunna]

Originally Posted by NePaS

I hope you only run those volts for benchmarking,if you run it at 1.544 24/7 your chip will die(if not outright then after a month or two you will start to suffer from "electromigration" which will degrade the chip requiring it to need more and more volts for a certain speed,which will slowly kill it).

I am using Speedstep, the voltage never goes above 1.45v unless running an artificial load (Prime, IBT, Toast, Etc) Another words, under real world use I haven't seen it go above 1.45v.

Most of the time its between 1.4v to 1.45v while gaming depending on the game. Also I don't fold or anything so like 95% of the time its idleing at 0.975v

[Rbstr]

Originally Posted by Zulthus

Should I go get a ruler?

Sure, but you're going to need calipers, yeah?