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I was messing around in my BIOS (Gigabyte H81m-DS2v / i5-4440) and found that despite being a 3.1GHz non-K chip, I could change the clock speed multiplier up to 3.3GHz, and so I did it. Then I rebooted, and sure enough, the CPU tops out at about 3.3GHz.

 

Is this bad? Will it overheat? Or should I just leave it?

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Look at your temperatures and see what they say. What cooler are you using?

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It's not inherently bad, it will only be bad if you have bad temps. My 3770 came at 3.4 Ghz stock and I did what you did, now it's at 4.1 Ghz.

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lolwut?

 

How do you overclock on a H81? I thought you needed a Z97?

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How do you overclock on a H81? I thought you needed a Z97?

Certain boards can overclock.

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Alright, it looks like when I stress tested it, it throttled to around 3.07GHz... Max temp was around 60C. The 3.3GHz just is an occasional jump - it doesn't seem to stay there.

 

Are these good numbers?

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200mhz with no voltage change isn't going to kill anything, even on stock cooler. It might crash if the CPU is unstable, that's about it.

 

Alright, it looks like when I stress tested it, it throttled to around 3.07GHz... Max temp was around 60C. The 3.3GHz just is an occasional jump - it doesn't seem to stay there.

 

Are these good numbers?

Thermal throttling for those CPUs should be at 100C AFAIK.

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I was messing around in my BIOS (Gigabyte H81m-DS2v / i5-4440) and found that despite being a 3.1GHz non-K chip, I could change the clock speed multiplier up to 3.3GHz, and so I did it. Then I rebooted, and sure enough, the CPU tops out at about 3.3GHz.

 

Is this bad? Will it overheat? Or should I just leave it?

 

Stress Test it.

 

If there are no problems, leave it, free Mhz

 

lolwut?

 

How do you overclock on a H81? I thought you needed a Z97?

 

Certain boards can overclock.

 

lolwut?

 

How do you overclock on a H81? I thought you needed a Z97?

 

 

OP didn't OC the CPU

 

The 4440 has a boost clock of 3.3Ghz and a base clock of 3.1Ghz, in truth the setting is there so that a user can underclock the CPU by setting a lower multiplier. Seeing as the chip has a 3.3Ghz boost the multiplier for 3.3Ghz has to be there so that the settings can be reverted without having to reset all the bios settings.

 

Specs for the CPU can be found here

 

http://ark.intel.com/products/75038/Intel-Core-i5-4440-Processor-6M-Cache-up-to-3_30-GHz?q=Intel%C2%AE%20Core%E2%84%A2%20i5-4440%20Processor%20%286M%20Cache,%20up%20to%203.30%20GHz%29

 

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OP didn't OC the CPU

I didn't say he overclocked it, and i didn't know the 4440 turbo-ed up to 3.3. All he did was set the baseclock to the Turbo freq. even though i thought we was BCLK Ocing. 

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