- Jul 19, 2010
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Hello all,
I had a rather unusual idea for overclocking my 2500k. I already have it up to 4.5 Ghz stable, but I can't push it further because 1.) the temps are about as high as I am willing to let them go, and 2.) my motherboard has a limit on how high I can raise the Vcore (it doesn't go past 1.35 for some reason). However, I started wondering if it's possible to independently change each core's clock speed. for example, is it possible to have core 0 running at 4.5 Ghz, and the rest running at, say, 3.8Ghz? I know this may be counter-intuitive, but I primarily use my PC for FSX, and since FSX really only utilizes the first two cores to any significant extent, I figure if I can down-clock cores 2 and 3 (which would lower temps and power consumption) then that will give me some additional headroom to raise the speed of cores 0 and 1 a bit more, which will hopefully give me a few more frames per second in FSX. So, is this even possible?
I had a rather unusual idea for overclocking my 2500k. I already have it up to 4.5 Ghz stable, but I can't push it further because 1.) the temps are about as high as I am willing to let them go, and 2.) my motherboard has a limit on how high I can raise the Vcore (it doesn't go past 1.35 for some reason). However, I started wondering if it's possible to independently change each core's clock speed. for example, is it possible to have core 0 running at 4.5 Ghz, and the rest running at, say, 3.8Ghz? I know this may be counter-intuitive, but I primarily use my PC for FSX, and since FSX really only utilizes the first two cores to any significant extent, I figure if I can down-clock cores 2 and 3 (which would lower temps and power consumption) then that will give me some additional headroom to raise the speed of cores 0 and 1 a bit more, which will hopefully give me a few more frames per second in FSX. So, is this even possible?
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