picked up an i5 6500 to play with. $170 off ebay not the greatest deal, but I wanted to play.
After a night of tweaking here's what I got. I can go a bit higher, but past 4725 it starts to get sketchy between ram needing to get lowered to 2400mhz or so(max oc of ram seems to be 2580mhz or so at present timings-Gskill PC2400 DDR4 2x16gb=32gb kit). This is at 1.365v set in bios which gives 1.36 in windows and under load. upped ram to 1.35 or 1.325 I forget. Really a shame Intel didn't let more of play with these non K cpu's and oc'ing.
After a night of tweaking here's what I got. I can go a bit higher, but past 4725 it starts to get sketchy between ram needing to get lowered to 2400mhz or so(max oc of ram seems to be 2580mhz or so at present timings-Gskill PC2400 DDR4 2x16gb=32gb kit). This is at 1.365v set in bios which gives 1.36 in windows and under load. upped ram to 1.35 or 1.325 I forget. Really a shame Intel didn't let more of play with these non K cpu's and oc'ing.
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