Broke the 5GHz barrier...

On_Wisconsin · 01-11-2013, 12:58 AM

Inspired by the holidays I decided to start OC'ing. With my new CPU fan and new case I was able to break the 5GHz barrier!
http://valid.canardpc.com/2648215

I'm impressed...for someone who has only been OC'ing for a few weeks...and it's stable so far! Haven't seen temps beyond 60C yet!

RainMotorsports · 01-11-2013, 01:18 AM

Nice yeah that was my aim originally, oh well. Last BIOS update i got 4.7 Ghz booting but pretty much no change in stable speed on my 2500k. Air Cooling is a bit limiting as with water, hell phase change i could run the voltage this chip wants for 5. Sometimes I wonder why I didn't just buy a "golden" chip off a tester.

Rob Williams · 01-11-2013, 02:04 AM

You have that running stable? That's incredible man, nice work!

What cooler do you have in there, out of curiosity?

RainMotorsports · 01-11-2013, 02:39 AM

He linked the 212+, pretty popular on the budget end of cooling plenty of guys in the 4.5 Ghz range using one.

Rob Williams · 01-11-2013, 02:54 AM

Doh, I read that as "PSU".

Pretty damn nice overclock for a non-exotic cooler.

Optix · 01-11-2013, 06:43 AM

It would have to be beefy. 5Ghz would take quite a bit of juice, regardless of the chip.

On_Wisconsin · 01-11-2013, 01:26 PM

Ooops, I wrote "CPU" as "PU" when editing the code. My fault.

The crazy thing is that I have yet to see temps above 57C under full load. With the new CPU cooler (I bought a 120mm fan off of Amazon for ~$8, free 2 day shipping so I mounted it on the CPU heatsink) I'm idling at 25C, sometimes as low as 23C!

I'm using an ASRock Z68 Exterme3 Gen3 mobo. I've been very satisfied with it. Love the UEFI bios interface.

Rob Williams · 01-11-2013, 01:31 PM

The fact that it's stable is impressive. I've gotten near 5GHz on chips like that one, but never "stable". I can't even get close to 5GHz on most of today's chips.

DarkStarr · 01-11-2013, 03:32 PM

Whats the voltage?

On_Wisconsin · 01-12-2013, 02:53 PM

Running at 1.4V

RainMotorsports · 01-13-2013, 12:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by On_Wisconsin

Running at 1.4V

Keep them temps down. Right on the limit, I would be more comfortable with that on water but hell for 5 Ghz I would risk it all day long. Hell they sell insurance now.

On_Wisconsin · 01-13-2013, 01:51 AM

The temps aren't even close to breaking 60C. I'd feel more comfortable too with water, but I have yet to crash the system at 5GHz

RainMotorsports · 01-13-2013, 02:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by On_Wisconsin

The temps aren't even close to breaking 60C. I'd feel more comfortable too with water, but I have yet to crash the system at 5GHz

It hasn't crashed or you have put it through 24 hour or more stressing and it hasn't crashed?

I can easily run 4.6 Ghz for 12 or more hours without causing a crash or I could run a light stress test and crash it in seconds. I only put my 4.5 through 12 hours of Super Pi i think it was, but it was folding for the longest time sometimes would be folding for days, decent way of testing, not quite as stressful but pretty far up there.

On_Wisconsin · 01-19-2013, 08:40 PM

24 hours, nope. It might be a good idea to try before school resumes!

Rob Williams · 01-21-2013, 01:00 PM

That's the fun of overclocking... what seems stable might not really be. Essentially, if you are overclocking at -all-, it makes sense that it can handle a true stress, else the overclock is for nothing other than e-peen growth. I used to have a high OC but it failed under a video encode, so I just went back to stock lol. No sense running it at extra power when there's no actual gain.

01-11-2013, 12:58 AM	#1
On_Wisconsin Coastermaker Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 233	Broke the 5GHz barrier... Inspired by the holidays I decided to start OC'ing. With my new CPU fan and new case I was able to break the 5GHz barrier! http://valid.canardpc.com/2648215 I'm impressed...for someone who has only been OC'ing for a few weeks...and it's stable so far! Haven't seen temps beyond 60C yet! __________________ ASUS VH242H Black 23.6" and Samsung 226BW dual monitor setup, Logitech x-540 speakers Last edited by On_Wisconsin; 01-11-2013 at 01:23 PM. Reason: CPU to PU

01-11-2013, 01:18 AM	#2
RainMotorsports Partition Master Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 349	Nice yeah that was my aim originally, oh well. Last BIOS update i got 4.7 Ghz booting but pretty much no change in stable speed on my 2500k. Air Cooling is a bit limiting as with water, hell phase change i could run the voltage this chip wants for 5. Sometimes I wonder why I didn't just buy a "golden" chip off a tester. __________________ Desktop i5 2500K @ 4.5Ghz \| ASUS P8Z68-V PRO \| 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 \| Seasonic X750 MSI GTX570 TF III @ 950/1900/2300 \| 2TB 5900 + 2X320GB 7200 RAID0 \| Zalman CNPS9900 MAX Laptop ASUS G50VT \| Core2Duo T9600 @ 3.3Ghz \| 9800M GS/GTS @ 650/1625/900 Phone Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch \| CyanogenMod 9 (Nightly 6/20) \| FF11 Kernel \| FF18 Modem

01-11-2013, 02:04 AM	#3
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	You have that running stable? That's incredible man, nice work! What cooler do you have in there, out of curiosity? __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

01-11-2013, 02:39 AM	#4
RainMotorsports Partition Master Join Date: Jul 2011 Posts: 349	He linked the 212+, pretty popular on the budget end of cooling plenty of guys in the 4.5 Ghz range using one. __________________ Desktop i5 2500K @ 4.5Ghz \| ASUS P8Z68-V PRO \| 16GB Corsair Vengeance 1600 \| Seasonic X750 MSI GTX570 TF III @ 950/1900/2300 \| 2TB 5900 + 2X320GB 7200 RAID0 \| Zalman CNPS9900 MAX Laptop ASUS G50VT \| Core2Duo T9600 @ 3.3Ghz \| 9800M GS/GTS @ 650/1625/900 Phone Galaxy SII Epic 4G Touch \| CyanogenMod 9 (Nightly 6/20) \| FF11 Kernel \| FF18 Modem

01-11-2013, 02:54 AM	#5
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	Doh, I read that as "PSU". Pretty damn nice overclock for a non-exotic cooler. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

01-11-2013, 01:26 PM	#7
On_Wisconsin Coastermaker Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 233	Ooops, I wrote "CPU" as "PU" when editing the code. My fault. The crazy thing is that I have yet to see temps above 57C under full load. With the new CPU cooler (I bought a 120mm fan off of Amazon for ~$8, free 2 day shipping so I mounted it on the CPU heatsink) I'm idling at 25C, sometimes as low as 23C! I'm using an ASRock Z68 Exterme3 Gen3 mobo. I've been very satisfied with it. Love the UEFI bios interface. __________________ ASUS VH242H Black 23.6" and Samsung 226BW dual monitor setup, Logitech x-540 speakers Last edited by On_Wisconsin; 01-11-2013 at 01:28 PM.

01-11-2013, 01:31 PM	#8
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	The fact that it's stable is impressive. I've gotten near 5GHz on chips like that one, but never "stable". I can't even get close to 5GHz on most of today's chips. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.

01-11-2013, 03:32 PM	#9
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01-12-2013, 02:53 PM	#10
On_Wisconsin Coastermaker Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 233	Running at 1.4V __________________ ASUS VH242H Black 23.6" and Samsung 226BW dual monitor setup, Logitech x-540 speakers

01-13-2013, 01:51 AM	#12
On_Wisconsin Coastermaker Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 233	The temps aren't even close to breaking 60C. I'd feel more comfortable too with water, but I have yet to crash the system at 5GHz __________________ ASUS VH242H Black 23.6" and Samsung 226BW dual monitor setup, Logitech x-540 speakers

01-19-2013, 08:40 PM	#14
On_Wisconsin Coastermaker Join Date: Dec 2007 Posts: 233	24 hours, nope. It might be a good idea to try before school resumes! __________________ ASUS VH242H Black 23.6" and Samsung 226BW dual monitor setup, Logitech x-540 speakers

01-21-2013, 01:00 PM	#15
Rob Williams Editor-in-Chief Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Atlantic Canada Posts: 13,231	That's the fun of overclocking... what seems stable might not really be. Essentially, if you are overclocking at -all-, it makes sense that it can handle a true stress, else the overclock is for nothing other than e-peen growth. I used to have a high OC but it failed under a video encode, so I just went back to stock lol. No sense running it at extra power when there's no actual gain. __________________ Intel Core i7-990X EE @ 3.43GHz, GIGABYTE X58A-UD5, Kingston 12GB DDR3-1333, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 680 2GB Kingston HyperX 3K 240GB SSD, WD VR 1TB, WD 2TB, Seagate 2TB, LG BD-ROM, ASUS DVD-RW, Corsair 1000HX, Corsair H60 Cooler Corsair 800D, Dell 2408WFP 24", ASUS Xonar Essence STX, Gentoo (KDE 4.10, 3.7 Kernel) "Take care to get what you like, or you will be forced to like what you get!" - H.P. Baxxter <Toad772> I don't always drink alcohol, but when I do, I take it too far.