i5 2400 overclock.

[yahfz]

First of all here are my specs:
i5 2400
P67-UD4-B3 Gigabyte
8GB DDR3 Dual channel
CX430 Corsair
GTX 670 Power Edition.

Ok, i've been rising my multi from 31 (stock 3.1ghz) to 38, but heres the thing, whenever i start using the 4 cores, my max frequency is 3.7ghz. Is there anyway to get higher than that? i saw some youtube videos of people going from 3.1 to 3.9 on all 4 cores...

 

[Quixit]

What you'd need to do to clock past the max multiplier you need to also increase the base clock (base clock x multiplier = frequency). Upping the base clock can make your system unstable rather fast so I'd go slowly. Start with 101 and go from there, 1-2mhz at a time.

 

[yahfz]

first of all thank you for the reply. Ok, the maximum CPU RATIO i can go is 38x100...

 

[nikoli707]

i wouldn't play around with the base clock much. but you can manually up the turbo multipliers on each core 4 bins over. thats the best you can do. if you want to try 101 or 101.5mhz on the bclk you can try, but its definitely not safe for the long run.

whats happening is when all 4 cores are loaded then the turbo is dropping. if only 1 or 2 cores are loaded you should be 0.2ghz higher. this is normal turbo boost and its functioning correctly. the videos you saw were likely running some 105 bclk. you can suicide run it just to see it if works, but i would not run that for anything other than a benchmark. the base clock is tied to ram, pcie, etc speeds and can screw up many things on your board and cause OS corruption.

 

[yahfz]

Yeah, i'll just get a i5 2500k and overclock to 4.5ghz or something..