Intel 2500K 4.2ghz @ 1.3v safe?

[orlfman]

Greetings all!

I just received my 2500k and Asus Maximus IV Gene-Z and I overclocked my 2500K to 4.2ghz and running it at 1.3v's. Is 1.3v's safe? Or will it cause my CPU to degrade over time? I will be running my machine 24/7. So far everything seems stable. Ran Intel Burn Test for a bit, no issues, and played StarCraft 2 without any issues as well.

Thanks for any help =D

 

[kilobravo]

4.2ghz @ 1.3v is more than safe, if you have a decent cpu-cooler.That mobo should give you 4.7ghz @ 1.38v at least.

Tcase on that cpu is 73.6c,so if you are within 75c you should be safe.

 

[S_I_N]

naw its ok try and see if you can get it lower with the same oc I run 4.5GHz at 1.35volts so you should be able to lower it a tad

 

[orlfman]

Alight, thanks guys :] Nice to know my 2500K is running safe. I'll try to to see if I can bump it up to 4.5ghz.

EDIT v2:

Do you think I could drop it down to 1.25-28v instead of 1.3v?

 

[Lollipop]

i run my 2500k @ 4520mhz @ 1.3v

so i guess you could try

 

[Ya93sin]

I can run mine at 4.5GHz at 1.336V, so you should be easily good enough mate

 

[S1EJ0]

I did a build running 4.8GHz @1.38V temps max out at 70'C on IBT

 

[Scoob]

I can run mine at 4.5GHz at 1.336V, so you should be easily good enough mate

Hi,

Until recently mine was at the exact same speed and vCore.

OP: one thing to be aware of is that "4.5ghz at 1.336v" is only part of the picture. In my case (and I'm sure for Ya93sin too) that 1.336v is the PEEK vCore shown in Windows under load - so benchmarking for example.

In my BIOS (on an ASUS P8Z68-V Pro) I'm actually set at 1.28 vCore with a +0.040 on the adjuster. At Idle I see around 0.0960 Vcore, gaming I might see 1.3 vCore. Only benching/stress testing sees the higher values.

As of last night I'm now running at 4.6, and have made a few additional stability tweaks. During IBT I can see a high of just shy of 1.4 vCore - I'd prefer to not go over this myself. However in gaming I still don't see much above 1.3...

I don; think any of us really know how robust these chips are just yet. Plenty of people have been running in excess of 1.4v (again, under load) for months now & are not reporting problems. My gut feel is that these chips will still be happily be doing that in a years time

Cheers,

Scoob.

 

[nepas]

I don; think any of us really know how robust these chips are just yet. Plenty of people have been running in excess of 1.4v (again, under load) for months now & are not reporting problems. My gut feel is that these chips will still be happily be doing that in a years time

Ihope so,as I have just been running at 1.45 for the past few hours at 4.9.if I can be bothered to sort out the rest of the settings I should be able to drop the vcore(I Hope)

 

[Scoob]

Ihope so,as I have just been running at 1.45 for the past few hours at 4.9.if I can be bothered to sort out the rest of the settings I should be able to drop the vcore(I Hope)

Hi,

Well based on my Q6600 having sat at 3.6 for over three years I'd hope that SB is at least as good as that was. The chips seems to be so good and overclock so well I'd be very surpised indeed if there was some weakness that caused them to go pop in 6 months time. I think that worse case you might loose a little stability and need a few more v's to sort that out - or just back off the clocks a little

While it's great fun to push things as far as they'll go, I'm definitely one for rolling back to an every day OC. After all, while I can run at 5.0ghz the temps get too high for my liking and really, gaming-wise, there's no real difference in my gaming experience between the two. To be fair there would likely be no difference at 4.0ghz either or indeed for many games at stock speeds! For me at least 4.5 (and now 4.6 with some more tweaks) seems to be a sweet-spot balance of noise/heat and underlying power draw.

Cheers,

Scoob.