i5 2500k non overclockable motherboard

[holley.deondre]

I just bought a r9 390x and my fx8350 bottlenecks it. I’ve seen an intel i5 2500k does not. But I’m on a tight budget and need the motherboard and cpu fast so my only option right now is the motherboard from the hp elite 8300. Is the intel i5 2500k stock good enough not to bottleneck the r9 without any Overclocking? I never overclocked my fx anyways.

 

[spentshells]

Well you'd be wasting time and money. What motherboard and power supply do you have? You are going to want to overclock your current CPU until you can afford something else.

 

[holley.deondre]

I’m not Overclocking anything. I have a 650w and a sabertooth 990fx r2.0. I5 2500k is way better than the fx I have. I’m asking if I don’t overclock it leave it stock will it help my bottle neck issue

 

[k1114]

It's not way better. It is better but it's still close enough to be a sidegrade. For many games it will be an issue. My 2500k has to be oced to handle a 1060 and it's close to a 390x.

 

[holley.deondre]

20% is way better. But ok I’ll keep looking.

 

[k1114]

Where's the 20% from? The 8350 is 30% better multi threaded.

 

[spentshells]

You have an 8350 and likely one of the best boards possible to overclock it with. Seems a bit silly not to overclock it but I understand,. I highly advise against buying the 2500k.

 

[k1114]

Many people don't oc because they are afraid but it's completely safe. I don't know your reason but maybe give it a try. It's free performance and you won't be bottlenecking anymore.

 

[holley.deondre]

I’ve tried overclocking and I watch YouTube and get everything right and it keeps shutting down or freezing

 

[prison_mike]

Considering i5-2500k is like 30 bucks on ebay, go for it. Why not

 

[k1114]

Youtube is one of the worst places to get correct info when it comes to pcs. Everything isn't right if it's shutting down or freezing. If you just copied settings that someone else used then that's 100% wrong. You don't have their pc and their settings won't work for your pc even if it's the exactly the same models. Have you made a thread to get help ocing?

 

[holley.deondre]

No I haven’t but if it’ll help me then I will. I’ve got it to be stable at 4.5ghz with a 15 hour stress test on amd over drive but I forgot what voltage I set it at. I have no problem trying again since I have a great motherboard I just need tips and guidance

 

[spentshells]

First question is which cooler are you using? If you are using g the stock cooler you may want to aim lower than 4.5

 

[holley.deondre]

Not stock hyper t4 I got it to a stable 4.4 stock voltage with 56 Celsius under load. 4.5ghz went to over 70 but was stable I’ve tried under volting but got a blue screen and my motherboard said overclocking failed

 

[holley.deondre]

If you guys can help me get to 4.5 or 4.6 I’ll deff listen and try it out. Back when I tried it on amd over drive I got it to 4.5ghx stable for hours and 4.6ghz when I went to bed but when I got up it’ll say test failed but i really want to do it via bios so it’s always running at that speed. Also if you guys know my ram is rated 1600mhz but when I put it at 1300 MHz it’ll freeze my pc or when I do 1600mhz it’ll only read 4gb Ram instead of 8gb

 

[spentshells]

Well one thing at a time. Reset your bios first them try what you had been doing to get to 4.5. 72C is not a bad temp for stress testing.

 

[holley.deondre]

Oh okay I’ll try to do the 4.5 again but it was honestly going at 75 and went up slowly and it was only 10 minutes in. I’ve seen 8350 shouldn’t go over 65 under load can you confirm? I’m usually sitting at 30 idle and now 55ish load

 

[holley.deondre]

It’s been a few hours prime 95 and hwm 4.5ghz 1.28v but I noticed after awhile some cores aren’t fully at 100% after about an hour for example at one point cores1-4 were at 100% while the rest was at 1% or 0% now I see 1-4 100 5,6, at low flucating % 7 at 100 and 8 at a high fluctuating %. What could this be? But so far no freezing or blue screen

Temp was 28-30 idle 43 under load and highest was 56

 

[holley.deondre]

So from 11:30am est to 8pm est with prime 95 the temp hasn’t gotten over 48 under load with a high of 56. No freezing blue screen etc

 

[holley.deondre]

21c at idle

 

[spentshells]

That seems very reasonable. As for why you have such core utilization that could be a lot of things. First check all the application settings. I'm on a phone or I'd look at the computer myself and check the settings. I'd say try gaming and see where you go from there.

 

[holley.deondre]

Yeah I’ve been playing assassins creed odyssey for about two hours which is cpu demanding and nothing happened