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Well I don't have the 2500k, but I've got a couple 2400 that I am still rocking.
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I got 3 running in various systems at speeds between 4.1 and 4.4. Lovely chips. Also gotta give a shout out to the Asus P67 Pro boards that they're running on. After the SATA controller RMA, they've been flawless for years.
Some BIOS can do it for you, what motherboard do you have? Back in time it was as simple as changing 2-3 settings in BIOS. Rewind 5 years, I found the thread I was active about this.I'm running a 2500K in my main rig at stock speeds. The last time I tried to OC the chip it did not go well (it screwed up my OS and had to reload the entire system). Could someone be kind enough to link to a comprehensive, step-by-step procedure for safely OCing these chips?
Thanks ...
I quicky did a search (did you?) and found many interesting results that should help you. Let me show you.I am running an older Asrock P67 Fatal1ty Performance MB here: ASRock > Fatal1ty P67 Performance
I quicky did a search (did you?) and found many interesting results that should help you. Let me show you.
Hard to know if any profile is ok so I would forget those saved profiles. The first result of the search showed me a video which was telling how to OC a 2600K with your motherboard. I haven't watched it but have a look, I guess all instructions are given.I purchased this MB as part of a combo and the seller mentioned that he had saved some profiles within the UEFI. I tried one of the profiles and the whole system crashed.
Hard to know if any profile is ok so I would forget those saved profiles. The first result of the search showed me a video which was telling how to OC a 2600K with your motherboard. I haven't watched it but have a look, I guess all instructions are given.
Running a 2600k. It finally gave up on me (well kind of). Ran for 5.5 years @ 1.488v 4.9ghz. Pretty fuckin good Id say for so much voltage (and on air too, D14) and never shutting the computer off. In the last month, I began having issues. Turns out the OC is no longer stable. Tried to lower it down to 4.2ghz and it didnt like that either. I now just run it at stock speeds without issues. Holding out for KL
Running a 2600k. It finally gave up on me (well kind of). Ran for 5.5 years @ 1.488v 4.9ghz. Pretty fuckin good Id say for so much voltage (and on air too, D14) and never shutting the computer off. In the last month, I began having issues. Turns out the OC is no longer stable. Tried to lower it down to 4.2ghz and it didnt like that either. I now just run it at stock speeds without issues. Holding out for KL
Would hit 80-82c after 30+ min of gaming. Typically would see about 76-78c though.With that voltage on air IMHO your crazy haha. I run 4.4ghz on 1.325 because it was stable and I didn't really feel the need to spend hours tuning my OC for just another 200-400 mhz to see if it would be stable. Curious what were your temps under load?
Running a 2600k. It finally gave up on me (well kind of). Ran for 5.5 years @ 1.488v 4.9ghz. Pretty fuckin good Id say for so much voltage (and on air too, D14) and never shutting the computer off. In the last month, I began having issues. Turns out the OC is no longer stable. Tried to lower it down to 4.2ghz and it didnt like that either. I now just run it at stock speeds without issues. Holding out for KL
Finally retired my 2500k today. I've never been sad to retire a processor like I do with the 2500k... Well... I do plan to build a second system as I gather more spare parts so maybe I will run it once again. Literally my longest lasting piece of PC hardware I've ever owned and it's number 1 in the hall of fame for me behind the ATI 9700Pro and 8800GT.
I still keep my old rig running. All my PC games (400+) from the last 4 years are installed on it and don't feel like reinstalling on my new computer. Its perfect the way it is. I haven't played the majority of the games installed and still intend on gaming on it until I finish my backlog which will take at least a few more years.
I am running an I7 2600K and I wont upgrade till we have a consumer 6 cores 12 thread CPU.
isn't that exactly what Haswell-E and Broadwell-E exactly did?.
I hope to get the same life with my 6700k @ 4600mhz as you guys had with your cpus. You are going to have to upgrade sooner or later. But hold onto while you can. It is going to get to the point though where you can't deny the upgrade. At least when you do upgrade you'll be safe from that point on, not from way back when.
I just retired my 2500k a few months ago from primary gaming to being my plex server. Can't see a need to change that system out again for years, that processor is a champ.