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I'll be getting the rest of my parts for a new system and building this weekend, so was wondering what you guys have been able to do in terms of overclocking the I5. I've got a Cooler Master 212, so that's just about best case for air cooling, and it looks like I should be able to reach 3.8-4ghz with very slight voltage increases. Just making this thread because there's a distinct lack of I5 OCing on this forum, dunno what's happened since I built last.
My main problem I foresee, is that I went with an Asrock P55 Pro, which has great features, but is cheap, and tom's hardware says they had stuff blowing up at 1.425v, with 2 separate boards, because the boards aren't designed for high CPU voltages, at least the P55 Pro isn't, I think the Extreme version has 16 phase, whereas mine will only have 8. Apparently Asrock is releasing a new bios with overvoltage protection, but I could care less. What I really want to know is what voltages I'll need to hit the 3.8 or 4.0 mark. Also, will I have to up the voltage to the onchip PCIE controller? Or does increasing the CPU voltage do the same thing.
My build will be this, for reference. I'll be sure to update you guys with my ocs, if the Asrock is able to maintain good overclocks at 1.2-3v, then it is an absolute steal. I'm building this system for like 900, and I could have done it for 700 without the SSD, for performance that will beat anything you can buy in a store, though my video card will hold me back some for sure, but I mainly play eve and TF2, so won't run into problems there.
I5 750
Cooler Master 212 w/2 decently quiet fans (no retarded leds of course)
Asrock P55 Pro
4GB OCZ Gold (cheapest stuff I could find)
XFX 4650 (holdover till the new DX11 cards come out)
Intel X25-M G2 80gb as boot
Hitachi 1TB sata for media
And I'm upgrading from:
Opty 165 (stock speed, I burnt out 3, so finally stopped OCing, was expensive)
Custom water cooling, swiftech pump, 120mm radiator, etc., pretty good really
DFI NF4 Ultra
3gb DDR
80gb Seagate SATA 7200 drive as boot......
2x 250gb 7200s in RAID 0 as media
ATI 3850
soooo....... I'm thinking I'm going to be really really happy I do love my current build, but it's 6 years old now, and the motherboard starting to show instability from all the ocing I've put it through.
My main problem I foresee, is that I went with an Asrock P55 Pro, which has great features, but is cheap, and tom's hardware says they had stuff blowing up at 1.425v, with 2 separate boards, because the boards aren't designed for high CPU voltages, at least the P55 Pro isn't, I think the Extreme version has 16 phase, whereas mine will only have 8. Apparently Asrock is releasing a new bios with overvoltage protection, but I could care less. What I really want to know is what voltages I'll need to hit the 3.8 or 4.0 mark. Also, will I have to up the voltage to the onchip PCIE controller? Or does increasing the CPU voltage do the same thing.
My build will be this, for reference. I'll be sure to update you guys with my ocs, if the Asrock is able to maintain good overclocks at 1.2-3v, then it is an absolute steal. I'm building this system for like 900, and I could have done it for 700 without the SSD, for performance that will beat anything you can buy in a store, though my video card will hold me back some for sure, but I mainly play eve and TF2, so won't run into problems there.
I5 750
Cooler Master 212 w/2 decently quiet fans (no retarded leds of course)
Asrock P55 Pro
4GB OCZ Gold (cheapest stuff I could find)
XFX 4650 (holdover till the new DX11 cards come out)
Intel X25-M G2 80gb as boot
Hitachi 1TB sata for media
And I'm upgrading from:
Opty 165 (stock speed, I burnt out 3, so finally stopped OCing, was expensive)
Custom water cooling, swiftech pump, 120mm radiator, etc., pretty good really
DFI NF4 Ultra
3gb DDR
80gb Seagate SATA 7200 drive as boot......
2x 250gb 7200s in RAID 0 as media
ATI 3850
soooo....... I'm thinking I'm going to be really really happy I do love my current build, but it's 6 years old now, and the motherboard starting to show instability from all the ocing I've put it through.