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Overclocking a i5 2300 SB help

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Hi, so Im thinking about overclocking my cpu, a sandybridge i5 2300. I have a cooler master seidon cpu cooler and a msi Z77A-G43 motherboard. But since I haven't done something like this before I want to know a bit about how, and diagnostics and monitoring. Also how far I can go with my processor. It's only on 2,8 ghz so it's pretty low and I assume I can't go too far. I do know that I will remove warranty and it is on my own risk and all that.

But basically I want to know about how to overclock. If someone feels that they have the time to help me I would appreciate it!

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Ludwig Johnson

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Its a locked CPU you cant overclock it

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haha, ok. well that's a bummer. Thanks anyway. But how do you know that? Is it in the name or did you look it up?

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i5 3570k @ 4.4 GHz, MSI Z77A-G43, Dominator Platinum 1600MHz 16GB (2x8GB), EVGA GTX 980ti 6GB, CM HAF XM, Samsung 850 Pro 256GB + Some WD Red HDD, Corsair RM850 80+ Gold, Asus Xonar Essence STX, Windows 10 Pro 64bit

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Its a locked CPU you cant overclock it
haha, ok. well that's a bummer. Thanks anyway. But how do you know that? Is it in the name or did you look it up?
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i5 3570k @ 4.4 GHz, MSI Z77A-G43, Dominator Platinum 1600MHz 16GB (2x8GB), EVGA GTX 980ti 6GB, CM HAF XM, Samsung 850 Pro 256GB + Some WD Red HDD, Corsair RM850 80+ Gold, Asus Xonar Essence STX, Windows 10 Pro 64bit

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There is a K at the end of overclockable Intel chips.

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All Intel CPUs have locked multipliers except the ones marked with a K at the end like the i5-2500K and so on. You can mess around with the base clock still but that's a very finicky process and you won't be able to overclock it to any meaningful degree that way.

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ok, thanks

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i5 3570k @ 4.4 GHz, MSI Z77A-G43, Dominator Platinum 1600MHz 16GB (2x8GB), EVGA GTX 980ti 6GB, CM HAF XM, Samsung 850 Pro 256GB + Some WD Red HDD, Corsair RM850 80+ Gold, Asus Xonar Essence STX, Windows 10 Pro 64bit

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http://pcpartpicker.com/p/znZqcf

 

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