New Rig: Intel i5-2500k

I might have to try that when I get back from class, something to keep in mind.

~Lordbob

society misfit said:

Raising the BCLK also raises the frequency of everything else…USB, SATA, PCIe - so that could be your trouble.

After some more tweaks I was able to run 5GHz for 30 min in ADIA64 Stress test but I was not liking the temps I was reaching. 91C peak kinda scared me so I stopped. This is the first Intel machine I’ve had since the original Pentium so I’m unfamiliar with what is safe and what is not. Perhaps someone can comment on that. Don’t want to jack your thread so I’m going to create a new one with my settings.

Good luck and post your findings.

Good to know!

~Lordbob

Just got to this:


I am going to try bumping the voltage a little to see if I can get it a bit higher.

~Lordbob

society misfit said:

Nice!

I forgot to mention that I also updated the BIOS to 1204 which is the latest on the Asus site.

I think I have 1204, but I downloaded it and will double check.
Turns out I have 1503 the beta BIOS.

~Lordbob

sygnus21 said:

Lordbob75 said:

Just got to this:


I am going to try bumping the voltage a little to see if I can get it a bit higher.

~Lordbob

What's the max voltage on that chip?

BTW here's my new toy.... Which ATI 6950?

1.5 is max recommended, but if you have good cooling (i.e, NOT aircooled), then you can push a little more.

This was about the highest I could get it. It seemed to be stable at 4.6 with almost 1.5V, but that was way higher than I wanted, so I turned it back down. Even with 1.5V the chip still stayed cool though.


Anything higher than that, and Windows BSoDs before reaching the login screen.

~Lordbob