How much can you overclock i5 2500?

[gibbs007]

I'm interested in how much overclocking potential does i5 2500 (withouth k) have.

 

[Maximilian]

Sod all.

Overclocking non k chips via the baseclock can damage them apparently.

 

[RavenSEAL]

Not a lot, you're looking at maybe 4GHz if you get REALLY lucky.

 

[we1shcake]

youll get 150mhz extra out of it before the base clock starts breaking the usb ports

 

[Kenmitch]

I'm interested in how much overclocking potential does i5 2500 (withouth k) have.

The non-K chips are supposed to be able to overclock to the max turbo multiplier + 4 so without changing the BCLK it's 4.1ghz I think as long as you have a chipset that supports the feature P67 or Z68 you would be fine. Of course having a MB that'll let you controll the voltages will help. Some motherboards are better at this than others. Voltage offset is best at this.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-bridge-core-i7-2600k-core-i5-2500k,2833-9.html

 

[Arkaign]

If you want to OC and have a 2500 non-K, literally the easiest solution is to sell it and buy a 2500k, so long as your mobo supports it. Non-K overclocking on Intel is dead for all reasonable purposes.

 

[IntelEnthusiast]

If you want to OC and have a 2500 non-K, literally the easiest solution is to sell it and buy a 2500k, so long as your mobo supports it. Non-K overclocking on Intel is dead for all reasonable purposes.

Yea the Intel® Core™ i5-2500K is so easy to overclock and get good stable results that it is almost funny. On another forum I read a thread about how boring it is to overclock Intel "K" processors.


Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

 

[Kenmitch]

If you want to OC and have a 2500 non-K, literally the easiest solution is to sell it and buy a 2500k, so long as your mobo supports it. Non-K overclocking on Intel is dead for all reasonable purposes.

For the most part this is true.

Not everybody lives close to a microcenter or fry's and is able to take advantage of the specials. Furthermore we have members from all over the world posting here. In some places the K's may carry more of a premium than we are used to seeing.

I guess it would depend on a persons use and how high they would push the K chips anyways! Many people pay for the K's and don't overclock thinking that resale value will be greater later anyways.

If a person is upgrading from an older rig then even a 2500 at stock speeds could be a greased lightning upgrade for them.

 

[Kenmitch]

Yea the Intel® Core™ i5-2500K is so easy to overclock and get good stable results that it is almost funny. On another forum I read a thread about how boring it is to overclock Intel "K" processors.


Christian Wood
Intel Enthusiast Team

Compared to the intel chips of the past the K's are a boring chip to overclock.

But as long as you don't disable any of the features and your motherboard supports offset voltages then it can be a little fun stabalizing an overclock. The randome bsods at idle/light load are sometimes challenging

 

[Lazlo Panaflex]

The non-K chips are supposed to be able to overclock to the max turbo multiplier + 4 so without changing the BCLK it's 4.1ghz I think as long as you have a chipset that supports the feature P67 or Z68 you would be fine. Of course having a MB that'll let you controll the voltages will help. Some motherboards are better at this than others. Voltage offset is best at this.

Correct...leave the BCLK @ 100, leave the main multipler @ 33, increase the turbo multiplier to 41, & call it a day. My vcc is undervolted to 1.04 (CPU-Z & HWMonitor). Better to use an offset, since the auto setting uses way too much juice (especially on Gigabyte boards).

But yeah, if you can get a K chip @ Microcenter for $150, definitely go for it. They're the king of loss leaders.

 

[peonyu]

Good question! I have a K chip and its worth the extra ~50$ or whatever it was if you want to overclock. I messed with the Bclk a tiny bit, and the best I could get [and still have set to] is 100.3 mhz. So im really running at 5030mhz. In the grand scheme of things that is absolutely nothing, if you want to overclock buy a K series chip. If you dont then dont expect to oc much.

Of course I could be wrong and it could be that my motherboard does not like a higher blck. The board I have wont post beyond 100.3. I did try 110 and it took about 15 power offs to get it back on @ default settings...

Regardless, if you dont buy a K Cpu you are tied to Oc via the Bclk and your not going to get much either way out of it. Even 110 Bclk is a small oc.

 

[peonyu]

Compared to the intel chips of the past the K's are a boring chip to overclock.

But as long as you don't disable any of the features and your motherboard supports offset voltages then it can be a little fun stabalizing an overclock. The randome bsods at idle/light load are sometimes challenging

They are. I expected to have to research it some, but more or less you just set a multi and hope it posts. If it doesnt then up the voltage abit and it will probably post. The Athlon 64s wayyyy back were probably the "funnest" to overclock, for those who liked doing it. The multiplier variables + fsb dividers meant you had to know what you were doing.