2500k golden chip?

Nice that it could validate, but we can already see that the voltage was much higher than what it was in the OP.

You may have a 5+ ghz chip, but you will need to feed more volts into it. There's no guarantee that all of the cores can run 5+ ghz. SB CPUs, as I said, have a hard frequency wall that you cannot surpass no matter what you do.
 
Any update on what the chip will do? Curious if you got the water cooling in and tested it.
 
I was able to hit 5.2 stable with 1.52 v but I'm just running at 5.0 with 1.4 v

Using a zalman LQ-310 btw, nice cooler!
 
I figured it would have been a bit lower voltage then that. What are you using to check the stability of the cpu with? Or any results from the stress test. Enjoy the overclock either way.


ssnyder28 said:
I was able to hit 5.2 stable with 1.52 v but I'm just running at 5.0 with 1.4 v

Using a zalman LQ-310 btw, nice cooler!
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I was hoping so too, but i'm pretty happy with this regardless. I used intel burn in test only and that was good enough for me. Even though I was setting voltage manually there was a different part in the bios that was messing with my setting and it was bumping up voltage at times of peak usage I'm assuming.
 
That option would be load line calibration. There should be a setting, some are low, medium and high. some are 1-5, etc. This allows the cpu voltage to stay the same and not fluctuate like you are seeing. But if it is working and you are happy then leave it like it is. But as you see leaving off the voltage will go up and down as the load increase or decreases.
 
That is impressive, to get your computer to boot at all at 5.1 ghz. My 2500k won't boot past like, 4.5gHz.

ZodaEX said:
"My computer owns, it can actually boot into Windows" Lol that's great.
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Well frankly, that was the case for a few windows editions in the past decade and a half.



EDIT. Btw, what chipset is used mostly for getting that high? I'm on z77.
 
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Sounds about right for a 5 ghz overclock, you've got a good chip there that can actually break 5 ghz.
 
ZodaEX said:
Windows used to not be bootable?
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In a manner of speaking. The computers that were being sold with Vista based around a hyperthreading Pentium 4 were lucky enough to even get into windows, let alone actually make a useful computer :p
 
kmisterk said:
In a manner of speaking. The computers that were being sold with Vista based around a hyperthreading Pentium 4 were lucky enough to even get into windows, let alone actually make a useful computer :p
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Vista ran and still runs perfectly fine on a Pentium 4. Isn't it way too late for Vista propaganda?
 
Disposed said:
Vista ran and still runs perfectly fine on a Pentium 4. Isn't it way too late for Vista propaganda?
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Yeah no kidding. Any pentium 4 with at least 1GB of RAM and a SSD runs Vista just fine. Even a modern hard drive will do. Remember, old hard drives are a massive bottleneck. You can't blame an old CPU for sluggishness that's being caused by an aging hard drive.
 
But who would spend there hard earned money on an ssd for a Pentium 4 computer? It's like me saying I will cut off one of my testicles for an extension to my johnson, you gain and lose a benefit at the same time.
 
Matthew Kane said:
But who would spend there hard earned money on an ssd for a Pentium 4 computer? It's like me saying I will cut off one of my testicles for an extension to my johnson, you gain and lose a benefit at the same time.
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Not really, an SSD can be carried over to a new build.
 
ZodaEX said:
Yeah no kidding. Any pentium 4 with at least 1GB of RAM and a SSD runs Vista just fine. Even a modern hard drive will do. Remember, old hard drives are a massive bottleneck. You can't blame an old CPU for sluggishness that's being caused by an aging hard drive.
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Hmm. Maybe it's just the pc's I've had then. I've only ever had an SSD on my latest build, and when I was messing around with vista/pentium 4's, I only have 5400rpm drives to mess with. So that may be the case. I just know that with how cheap computers are for various levels of power, it's almost pointless to still be running a pentium 4. Anyway, not really important.
 
kmisterk said:
Hmm. Maybe it's just the pc's I've had then. I've only ever had an SSD on my latest build, and when I was messing around with vista/pentium 4's, I only have 5400rpm drives to mess with. So that may be the case. I just know that with how cheap computers are for various levels of power, it's almost pointless to still be running a pentium 4. Anyway, not really important.
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5400 RPM boot drive with any OS is painful. It dont matter how cheap hardware is, if you have a machine running an old pentium 4 that works fine why replace it?
 
Oh well from a 2500k overclock cpu to a os/ssd thread. Not sure what happened at this point.
 
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