Overclocking old i5 750

[Nemspy]

Hi,

I've never overclocked a thing in my life, so I'm a complete newbie here.

Unfortunately, budget cuts has meant that our desktops at work have been replaced with used notebooks -- they are too small for me to type with and inconvenient in general, so I thought I'd dig through all my old bits and cobble a machine together.

Sadly, my i7 2700k CPU is off the table because the motherboard that goes with that was toast.

I've had to resort to an old i5 750 on an Asus p7p55d

There's a GPU in there -- I forget the exact number, that was solid in 2009, and I have 16 gigs of DDR3 2133 in there too.

It does grind a bit with Windows 10, though.

I read a few tutorials and I tweaked a couple of things in the bios to see if it runs OK on just the stock cpu fan.

I have it -- I think -- running at 3.1GHZ right now (I changed a setting in AI Tweaker -- BCLK Frequency - from 133 to 155 after setting the Ai overclock timer to manual.)

So my questions.

1) Was this all I needed to do to overclock?

2) Should it be OK at this speed without special cooling?

3) Can I go any higher?

-- It should be kept in mind that this machine won't be used to play games or do anything particularly intense.

Mike

 

[Tony_186]

With the fan you got with it you probably won't get to 3.3Ghz without reaching in the 80C so I would recommend buying a 212+ if you want to get more out of it and with that cooler you should 3.5-4.0Ghz.

 

[The Paladin]

here is a very interesting thread that was had here at tom's on this very subject
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266152-29-overclocking-setting-p7p55d

 

[Nemspy]

With the fan you got with it you probably won't get to 3.3Ghz without reaching in the 80C so I would recommend buying a 212+ if you want to get more out of it and with that cooler you should 3.5-4.0Ghz.

here is a very interesting thread that was had here at tom's on this very subject
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266152-29-overclocking-setting-p7p55d

I did come across that thread before I posted. I'm an extreme novice, though, and I don't know what 95% of the numbers in the posts there mean yet.

 

[Tony_186]

You if you want to overclock it just go into the BIOS and try different Mhz until you get to the point where the pc will crash because it can not run at so high Mhz. Although if you do that I would recommend a better cooler because the stock one won't give you much cooling after you overclock. And if you want to go all out you can increase the voltage that the CPU gets but I wouldn't recommend that as it can lead to faster degradation of your CPU.

 

[Tony_186]

If you need instructions on how to do that I will gladly help.
And if you need anything else just ask.