How to Overclock your Sandy Bridge with Settings (i5, i7)

pcguidr.blogspot.com for more information on overclocking and such

I'll show you good settings to overclock your shiny Intel 2500k or 2600k CPUs and remain stable

The system:

Intel Core i5 2500k 3.3 @ 4.7
ASRock P67 Extreme4
G. Skill Ram DDR3 1600 8GB
Intel SSD X-25V 40GB
Samsung Spinpoint 500GB
MSI GTX460 Hawks Twinfrozr SLI

Category:

Education

Tags:

• overclock
• intel
• sandy bridge
• core i5
• core i7
• 2500k
• 2600k
• asrock
• p67
• extreme4

[MrExigent]

@SabataBread How would you go about increasing your overall cpu clock when not running games? i would like mine a bit higher than 1.6 ghz

[SabataBread]

@MrExigent The only way is to disable speed step I believe, but you wouldnt want your CPU running at 4.5 all day would you

[514Productions]

wtf do i do, i know nothing about overclocking, i want to get it to about 4.1 - 4.2 GHz while it being stable

Intel core i7 2700k

Asus P8Z68-V PRO

850W PSU Corsair

NVIDIA GTX 570

8GB RAM

other crap

[SabataBread]

@514Productions Nice rig! Just go easy on the overclock. Get into the Bios/UEFI by holding F2 or whatever your motherboard uses. Just set the multiplier to manual mode and put down 41 as your base multiplier. That'll be 4100Mhz. Then set your vCore to 1.33V usuing the instructions in the video. Change the other settings to what I have in the video, and you should be dandy

[2511jeremy]

your comps liquid cooled ??? its got alot of air in the rad

[KinGEclipse1969]

@raceitchris Ive got the same board and same chip. Did you ever manage to get your voltage to say down at idle ? I mean its been 3 month since you posted about it . I would like an update pls.

[LittleKirra]

why my i5 2500 non-k not going to max speed on all cores when set max multi to 37?

All it does is change what it reports max speed as in Windows yet runs just like set to standard speeds, Hitting 37 on turbo on 1 core and dropping with more cores loaded.

Even with Turbo, Speedstep and powercfg set to off or max, It still does exactly the same as having the multi at 33.

Cores idle at 37 when power set to max but still drops speed when a few cores get under load.

Tested with prime95 and cpuz.

[eon5700]

@Buttfuckbysquirl max safe is 80c. after it goes past 92c that's dangerous.

[HaveSomeQuark]

i love asus republic of gamers stuff. so awesome

[Buttfuckbysquirl]

umm , what is the max stable / safe temprature for my i5 2500K? CORE temp and CPU temp...

[germas369]

Love these Durex Adverts <3 :D

[germas369]

I get it why most people use the hyper 212 plus, i mean the one that im looking at (i haven't got a custom pc yet) in my opinios is quite good Phanteks CPU Cooler PH-TC14PE. But IS this good?

[predatorofpie]

@badboiproductionz Depends. If you set your CPU to throttle itself, it will only run at 4.5 if it needs to. Same with temps, of it breaches your limit, it will throttle itself.

[MrExigent]

@SabataBread No aha i would like atleast 2.5~