Getting ready to downgrade my rig in sig so figured I'd test my chip a little bit more at lower overclocks to see what it would do. Currently water cooled so I'm thinking that I need to find some lower stable overclocks in case whomever wants my rig has a fear of water 
My MB has no issues overclocking at more traditional higher overclocks but lacks the UEFI option for picking a - offset on additional turbo voltage which would come in handy. Zapping LLC down to the lowest setting does somewhat help but I still have to use a pretty large - offset vcore value to keep the voltage down as my chip doesn't need a whole lot on the lower end it looks like.
Was figuring on it BSOD'ing at such a low vcore under heavy stress. Had to load it back down with Intel Burn Test as when I returned it was done already. Was gonna snip during the 19th run if alive still.
I like to do some quick prime using 1792k min and max size as it'll BSOD quickly if not even close on the vcore....It's what I've read and have experienced in practice at least
Gonna play around some more today as it's pretty much gonna be my last adventure with the rig as it's gonna most likely be going on Craigslist soon.
This looks to be the data from one of my 2500k adventures many moons ago. The 2550k makes the 2500k look like a lemon in comparison!

My MB has no issues overclocking at more traditional higher overclocks but lacks the UEFI option for picking a - offset on additional turbo voltage which would come in handy. Zapping LLC down to the lowest setting does somewhat help but I still have to use a pretty large - offset vcore value to keep the voltage down as my chip doesn't need a whole lot on the lower end it looks like.
Was figuring on it BSOD'ing at such a low vcore under heavy stress. Had to load it back down with Intel Burn Test as when I returned it was done already. Was gonna snip during the 19th run if alive still.
I like to do some quick prime using 1792k min and max size as it'll BSOD quickly if not even close on the vcore....It's what I've read and have experienced in practice at least
Gonna play around some more today as it's pretty much gonna be my last adventure with the rig as it's gonna most likely be going on Craigslist soon.
This looks to be the data from one of my 2500k adventures many moons ago. The 2550k makes the 2500k look like a lemon in comparison!

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