I5 2500k ASUS Sabertooth P67, need help with easy OC

[baybiz85]

I am a total beginner to OCing and want to OC between 4.5ghz and 5ghz as easily as possible without any problems. I have done some OC research but still need a guiding hand.

i5 2500k
ASUS P67 Sabertooth
8gb DDR3 1600
Asetek 550LC Liquid Cooling w/ Dual Enermax fans (push pull)
EVGA GTX 560 Ti (Factory OCed to 900mhz)

Let me know if you need any further information.

Thank you in advance!

 

[Leaps-from-Shadows]

Really? Wow, you really are lucky. The C-batch CPUs are known to require less voltage for any particular speed. Maybe there are a few A-batches that do well also.

 

[baybiz85]

i think mine is coming next week

 

[baybiz85]

Best answer selected by Baybiz85.

 

[baybiz85]

so I got my computer now and at first I ran into some crazy problems with everything still at stock like freezing and bsods and restarts but I seemed to have smoothed everything out and now I have left everything at auto and pushed the multiplier up to 42 just to see if it would be ok and it seems good. Running prime blend test @ 4.2 and the max temp im seeing is 57c. Should I just take what I got or should I push more, Im scared because of how the system was when I first got it.

 

[baybiz85]

also auto is setting the voltages at around 1.28 to 1.29, isnt this a bit high for a 4.2ghz clock or is that fine? prime passed the first round of testing with no issues at all it seems but I had to turn it off because my windows are getting worked on in my house and its by my comp so I had to move it. how long should i run the prime to know its fully stable and does prime stress your gpu as well?

 

[Leaps-from-Shadows]

The average voltage for 4.5GHz is 1.3-1.35v so you're right in line with that.

If you're going to continue to increase the speed, just run Prime95 for an hour or so to test it out. Once you've achieved your goal speed (whatever that is), then as a final check I suggest 24 hours of the Blend setting.

I actually do this:
24 hours of Small FFTs.
24 hours of In-place large FFTs.
24 hours of custom Blend testing 11264MB (my system has 12GB).

Most people don't have the patience for that.

 

[baybiz85]

ok sounds good, ill see if I too have that kind of legendary patience. i think ill just play a game to test my gpu, something gpu intensive...any ideas?

 

[Leaps-from-Shadows]

FurMark 1.9.0 will likely be the hardest stress test you can do.

 

[baybiz85]

i heard furmark can be so hard that it could potentially ruin my card, how true is that?

 

[Leaps-from-Shadows]

As long as your card has an adequate power system and isn't overclocked/over-volted beyond its means, the risk is minimal. The 560 Ti reference power system is good enough.

If you don't want to try FurMark, you could always run the software from EVGA called OC Scanner. It has a stress tester and an artifact detector, so you can tell when an overclock really is stable or not.

 

[baybiz85]

Oh nice that sounsd perfect, just D/L that of the evga website? Or is it built into the gfx card software somewhere?

 

[Leaps-from-Shadows]

EVGA OC Scanner

 

[baybiz85]

Thank you again LFS! Can somebody nominate this guy for president already!