Well, it took a lot of coaxing, but i've made the club.

[Josh Weston]

And no, it's not stable at all

Back down to 4.5GHz for me, but that was kinda fun.

 

[Big WigglyStyle]

hehe nice, I've just stabled out my 4.5GHz last night after finally getting a decent cooler a few days ago. I wanna go for 5

 

[tinytomlogan]

What cooling have you got dude, I think you might even be able to get that stable with decent cooling / a custom water loop.

 

[Josh Weston]

What cooling have you got dude, I think you might even be able to get that stable with decent cooling / a custom water loop.

I have a NH-D14 set at 7v because I find 12v too noisy.

But I dunno, I don't think i've won the chip lottery - I had to go up to 1.4v just to get it stable enough to boot.

Running at 4.5GHz and 1.25v the temperatures are already a little too hot for my liking (Prime runs at around 73 on the hottest core)

 

[B3rni3]

Quick noob question but is there an actual set of rules for the 5ghz club or it just get it to boot and validate with cpuz cause I think I can get my 3930k up there for short time but I will stay at 4.6 for 24/7 use.

 

[Josh Weston]

Quick noob question but is there an actual set of rules for the 5ghz club or it just get it to boot and validate with cpuz cause I think I can get my 3930k up there for short time but I will stay at 4.6 for 24/7 use.

As far as I know, the 5GHz club is for anyone that can get their CPU (or maybe even one day their GPU - that's a thought) validated at 5GHz. As soon as I saw that i'd been emailed with CPU-Z validation I changed the clocks and volts back down to normal, and most likely won't change them again for a long time yet

If you do try, make sure you enter your email - Chrome wasn't stable at 5GHz, so when CPU-Z tried opening the web page it auto-crashed.

Best of luck to you

 

[Ibanez81]

Wouldnt mind trying to get past 5ghz myself with my 2500k, I have a full custom waterloop ect but dunno what sort of volts its gonna need, takes 1.4v at 4.8ghz stable but i think it needs closer to 1.5+V for a stable 5ghz :|

 

[Josh Weston]

Wouldnt mind trying to get past 5ghz myself with my 2500k, I have a full custom waterloop ect but dunno what sort of volts its gonna need, takes 1.4v at 4.8ghz stable but i think it needs closer to 1.5+V for a stable 5ghz :|

With Sandy, it's not generally advised to go over 1.4v for extended use, as it can damage the CPU and stop it from clocking as high as you may be used to. But if you just want to take a stab at 5GHz, creeping the volts up for a few minutes is just fine

 

[giannakos23]

Congratsulations dude for your achievement !!!

 

[S_I_N]

I had to cram 1.6 at mine to get it bench stable at 5.3Ghz it was fun but deffo not adviable for long term use. I currently run 4.5 at 1.35 for 24/7 use no issues going on 10+ months now

 

[Josh Weston]

I had to cram 1.6 at mine to get it bench stable at 5.3Ghz it was fun but deffo not adviable for long term use. I currently run 4.5 at 1.35 for 24/7 use no issues going on 10+ months now

Yeah, I honestly don't know what I would have had to have tried to make it bench stable. My sole aim was to get it validated before it crashed! Kind of wish I'd ram the windows experience index thing, just to see the processor at 7.9. Another time, perhaps.

 

[giannakos23]

Yeah, I honestly don't know what I would have had to have tried to make it bench stable. My sole aim was to get it validated before it crashed! Kind of wish I'd ram the windows experience index thing, just to see the processor at 7.9. Another time, perhaps.

you'd need 5.6ghz to have a 7.9 score

 

[Josh Weston]

you'd need 5.6ghz to have a 7.9 score

I was under the impression that it was 'just' 5GHz that was required. Oh well

 

[giannakos23]

I wish it was only 4 !!

 

[Josh Weston]

I wish it was only 4 !!

That would be nice. Alas, I think that everyone knows that the Windows Experience Index's method of generating scores is flawed. I've been told that Windows 8's system is better, though, so we'll have to see how that pans out.