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I have finally overclocked my 2500K. It's nothing spectacular, I did 4.0 GHz because it's my first time ever.
Stock Vcore for 3.3 GHz was between 1.184 V and 1.192 V under 100% load.
I went straight for 4.0 GHz with Vcore set to 1.25 V, which wasn't enough to keep the system stable under load so I increased it to 1.275 V.
Here are the results during 17th pass in LinX (at 1 hour mark) and shortly after 20th pass:
During
After
As you can see, max temperature is 55 °C. In comparison, max temperature at 3.3 GHz was 52.5 °C after 20 minutes in Prime95. I'm talking about average across all 4 cores, of course.
1 hour or 20 passes in LinX is considered stable, right?
Rest of my rig:
Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 1600MHz 9-9-9-24
WD Caviar Blue 640GB
XFX XXX Edition 650W
Zalman Z9 Plus (front intake, back exhaust, top exhaust for now)
No GPU yet
I will attempt to reach the highest possible overclock without exceeding Vcore of 1.3 V.
My question is, how would you rate my chip? Horrible, bad, average, good, excellent? Based on other people's overclocks, I'd say it rates somewhere around average or good. Batch number is L149B050.
Stock Vcore for 3.3 GHz was between 1.184 V and 1.192 V under 100% load.
I went straight for 4.0 GHz with Vcore set to 1.25 V, which wasn't enough to keep the system stable under load so I increased it to 1.275 V.
Here are the results during 17th pass in LinX (at 1 hour mark) and shortly after 20th pass:
During
After
As you can see, max temperature is 55 °C. In comparison, max temperature at 3.3 GHz was 52.5 °C after 20 minutes in Prime95. I'm talking about average across all 4 cores, of course.
1 hour or 20 passes in LinX is considered stable, right?
Rest of my rig:
Asrock Z68 Extreme3 Gen3
Corsair Vengeance 2x4GB 1600MHz 9-9-9-24
WD Caviar Blue 640GB
XFX XXX Edition 650W
Zalman Z9 Plus (front intake, back exhaust, top exhaust for now)
No GPU yet
I will attempt to reach the highest possible overclock without exceeding Vcore of 1.3 V.
My question is, how would you rate my chip? Horrible, bad, average, good, excellent? Based on other people's overclocks, I'd say it rates somewhere around average or good. Batch number is L149B050.