Hey everyone,
I had a few questions about overclocking my i5-2500k. I have an ASRock Extreme 7 Gen 3 that I'm doing this with. I did a bit of research and found some overclocking numbers that seemed to be a good target for me to start with so I went with it.
I haven't done any extreme testing yet but so far everything is running great over the last hour or two.
Anyway, I have these questions if you guys wouldn't mind answering them:
- Do the settings I have in the image seem okay? All the voltages and everything? (Image is Below)
- If so and I wanted to try for 4.6 or 4.7 or maybe even 4.8 Ghz what voltages etc. should I increase and in what increments?
- Is it okay that after load the CPU Speed drops back down to 1.Something Ghz ... Should I disable something to make it always run at 4.5Ghz or is that not necessary?
Just fyi I did all the settings in the UEFI utility not in the ASRock utility if that matters.
Edit: One other thing I meant to mention - It seems that the computer takes about 15 seconds before the monitor shows the ASRock boot screen after turning it on ... Is that normal? This isn't really new, it did that before the OC but it seems to be a little longer now.
Thanks everyone!
Here's the setting:
I had a few questions about overclocking my i5-2500k. I have an ASRock Extreme 7 Gen 3 that I'm doing this with. I did a bit of research and found some overclocking numbers that seemed to be a good target for me to start with so I went with it.
I haven't done any extreme testing yet but so far everything is running great over the last hour or two.
Anyway, I have these questions if you guys wouldn't mind answering them:
- Do the settings I have in the image seem okay? All the voltages and everything? (Image is Below)
- If so and I wanted to try for 4.6 or 4.7 or maybe even 4.8 Ghz what voltages etc. should I increase and in what increments?
- Is it okay that after load the CPU Speed drops back down to 1.Something Ghz ... Should I disable something to make it always run at 4.5Ghz or is that not necessary?
Just fyi I did all the settings in the UEFI utility not in the ASRock utility if that matters.
Edit: One other thing I meant to mention - It seems that the computer takes about 15 seconds before the monitor shows the ASRock boot screen after turning it on ... Is that normal? This isn't really new, it did that before the OC but it seems to be a little longer now.
Thanks everyone!
Here's the setting: