2700k WOW!

[SmoulderingCircuits]

in the real world tho, what will it do @ 5ghz that it wont @4.5??

There comes a point where you will get more done by accepting you have reached your stable limit and pumping out whatever you're doing steadily rather than constantly trying to get higher in denial of hitting a wall and whatever you do keeps on corrupting and failing and never completes. Better to have 4.7 or whatever stable than 5Ghz and keeps crashing on you every two days and whatever you were rendering or whatever it is is lost.

It's like strapping a nuke to the back of a Veyron, kind of defeats itself

 

[NoKz]

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1777765

Lasted me a 3-4 months at that vcore with 24/7 use. Finally died on me and would BSOD every 10 minutes on stock settings. Luckily I had a spare 2500K and have been running that at 4.8GHz since and my vcore is around 1.34v or something.

 

[fredtrix]

All awesome advice here, you'd be crazy not to listen!!!

Agreed

 

[Damien c]

Agreed

Not been on my pc the last few night's from getting in from work as my brother is moving house so I have been helping him out.

Should be able to get time to use it tonight, and will be dropping it down to 4.8ghz or whatever I can get stable at 1.4v or less.

Will only bump up the voltages etc to see how high I can get a CPUZ validation if I can be bothered at some point.

My previous 2500K ran for 8 month's solid at 4.8ghz using 1.395v with no problem's on air and that is being given to my dad in April when I swap my board out and ram.

Cheer's for the advice guys.

 

[mundivalur]

My input is

Been Folding non stop (well restarts) @5.0ghz 1.42v and cooler months @5.2ghz 1.50v now 5.1ghz 1.47v for 5 months

when the hell is he going to DIE

 

[Lauralarry]

Real talk you cant tell the difference between 4.5 ghz and 5.0 :/ and if you can is it really worth it?

 

[Briggsy]

I have my 2700k over clocked to 4.7ghz on a 1.325 vcore with temps 70c at 100% load with prime.....(on air)

I'm happy with that....

 

[fredtrix]

Real talk you cant tell the difference between 4.5 ghz and 5.0 :/ and if you can is it really worth it?

0.5Ghz is a good amount of extra processing power. You will get better performance from that extra clock speed.

 

[Rasmus66]

1.4 volt vcore for air or low/mid end watercooling but if you have a high end watercooling setup thtat can keep cpu temp down when 1.5 volt vcore is fine.

But still it's very bad cpu you have if it needs 1.5 volt vcore for 5 GHz.

My 2600K runs 4.5 GHz 24/7 on air with 1.25 volt vcore so try testing high speed vs. low voltage and see how low you can get the vcore down.

 

[KING_OF_SAND]

My h100 keeps my i5 at 5.2ghz with a 1.5v at a nice temp, highest I have ever seen it is 78c after 3 hours of prime. although I keep my CPU at 4.6ghz through one of the settings in my mobo which is at 1.388v i believe for 24/7 clocks.

 

[MxFScotch]

I have ran my ole 950 at 4.1ghz for a year now. But she never gets over 1.26V's and never over 57c on the temp... Just find a happy place for longevity. OC'ing is fun to push things and get cool benchmarks. After that, it's like your muscle car, even though you know it'll do something, you dont run it at 100mph all day. Unless $ isnt an issue and you like spreading paste alot. LOL.