[Solved] I5-2500k and H80, 5ghz....?

A better question is with 2 midrange video cards, what would be the point of 5ghz.....or even 4.8ghz?

Agree. If you've got to 4.8, why are you stopping there until you get the approval of a forum thread? Just go do it and see what happens...every chip behaves a bit differently so no one can really say how yours is going to respond to that speed and the volts needed.

This also depends at what temps you are comfortable running at as well. Increased voltage = increased temps.

Yes, just because it allows your CPU to run at that speed, at what temperatures does that happen? Most people getting into watercooling really are more concerned about the looks and not really focus on performance...correctly calculating the delta-T for your loop is an essential process for a good build.

Well this rig isn't for gaming, mostly video editing and photoshop. How many volts for an optimal 4.8ghz, because it crashed under prime95. I think it was mac os acting up again :\

If its not stable increase the Vcore slightly... we've not tested your chip so we don't know what will make it stable...

Trial and error with BIOS settings and Intel Burn test.

But what temps do you see @ load at 5ghz?

That is the point I'm trying to make.

Sometimes, doing something for the sake of saying you did it far exceeds any kind of practicality for doing so - often with complete disregard for any kind of valid reasoning other than trying to impress people on the internet that you really don't know or even like.

Going from 4.5ghz to 5ghz falls into this category.

I'm at 4.6 with 1.27 I keep crashing and decided to let it stand. If you want to go further keep increasing the mh and vcore till your mobo is stable. Just fyi anything under 200$ without proper cooling and monitoring of your mobo can cause it to fry. YeA your CPU is cool but what's ur nb and sb at other components can crap out easily. 5gh is a serious overclock even for the experienced.

Exactly. If he could hit 6ghz on air at stock volts, I would be impressed, that would pretty much equal my best OC, which by the way was actually needed.

There are a lot of new people wanting to overclock to very high levels without reading, researching or understanding what they are doing, how to get there and most of all, realistic expectations based on hardware and their own ability.

This 'just tell me what to do because I don't want to learn how on my own' thought porcess really needs to take a step back and realize that everyone with this mentality is causing a degradation in how society expects instant answers without personal contribution. Then you encounter the fact that sometimes what they are asking just isn't reasonable stirs up a pot of what they think they can and should be possible based on obscure information and not realistic, personal limitations. Temper tantrums and what appears to be self-entitlement claims, ensue.

The Internet:

It isn't possible, which circles back around to the point I was making- research into processes, understanding, best-practices and actual DIY would tell you that you couldn't do this with any current i5/i7.

You shouldn't just try to find the BIOS settings to plug in from another user, bump them up a bit and assume it will work. Hardware is never exactly the same, even when using the same exact components. You are directly responsible for the overclocking of your components, and thus...responsible for their failure if/when that happens...no one else. Therefore, you are then responsible for funding the replacement...and no, you can't just RMA a CPU that has been killed from incorrect overclocking.

I know, I was just wondering how he did that. 6Ghz would be INSANE even with water cooling and and extremely high voltage.

Yes, I didn't mean to keep it stable. I just meant to get it there and boot! XD

Willy waving and benchmarks/WR's

I feel it's a valid question-

If you can have an OC running in BIOS and just get a simple boot, but can't prove it operates under load to show how much performance gain was achieved, how is it really a successful overclock? You'd need to put the CPU under load with a valid testing engine and validate that it is able to operate at the speeds being set.

If you are just wanting to hit <insert target overclock speed here> and not have any way to prove it, save yourself the trouble, skip the actual overclock configuration and just tell everyone that you did it.

Sorry- just trying to provide a valid debate on overclocking and desired intent.

I think what you said holds true for almost all people that overclock, Generally people just want a boost in performance and to maintain stability.

There are some people though that are into benching (Look on HWbot) and so don't need an overclock to be 24hr prime stable, just stable enough to get a 3DMark run or whatever.

Also some enthusiasts like to see what clock speed they can boot at, then validate that clock with CPU-Z.

Yeah everyone has to start somewhere... I just wish they didn't start with "hey!, I wanna overclock... what settings do I need!" Really grinds my gears

Yup true, I was referring to the principle of overclocking to the bleeding edge, rather than a specific clock speed.

My inner nerd would love to play with LN2

You can't hit above 5.7ghz on the K series right? Not that there is any setup that could keep that under control 24/7...

I've seen 2600/2700K's hit 58x multi, that's with crazy volts and certainly not stable.

It's theoretically possible, you just encounter physical and thermal limitations before you can typically reach those speeds.

Do these guys need to do a lot of board modding to support that much voltage over what a chip is rated? I know you can usually go well over a chip's supported voltage, but how about keeping the board stable?

I think that we are off topic.

The current mobos doesn't need voltmod, the chips support the overvoltage with good cooling (sub-zero) without problem BUT don't forget reset BIOS after finish the test or you can kill the chip in the idiot way (sorry for the word)