Overclocking i5 2500k

[Doc.Tor]

Hey hey, long time listner, second time caller.

 

I recently put together an old but gold gaming pc from spare parts i had lying around and tried my hand at overclocking it, I got it to 4,3ghz by literally only putting inn 4,3 in clockspeed in the BIOS, 

 

so i was wondering where to go from here ?

How do i actually overclock ?

I have seen i5 2500ks go up to 4,5 or 4,7 with only a 240mm aio

Wil it have any impact on my gaming or streaming preformance ?

 

in Austin Evans words: Is it worth it ?

 

CPU: i5 2500k 4,3ghz

AIO: Cooler master ML240 AIO

MOBO: Asus p8z68-v pro/gen3

PSU: Seasonic 650w moudular 80plus gold

GPU: MSI GTX 970 

SSD: Kingston SSDnow 240gb

HDD: Seagate Firecuda 1TB SSHD

Case: Phanteks P300

[NelizMastr]

The 2500K is one of the easiest chips to deal with. The one I had back in 2014 did 5GHz on a high end air cooler at 1.4v, that's as high as you should go. 

 

Overclocking with multipliers is easy peasy. 

 

1. Up the multiplier

2. Boot OS

2a. if fail -> Add 0.125v and retry

2b. if pass -> stress test. If fail, see 2a.

 

Repeat until your peak temperatures are going to the mid 80s or your voltage reaches 1.4.

[Doc.Tor]

Do you think this system vil be able to stream TES IV Oblivion to twitch when overclocked ?

[Zando_]

3 minutes ago, Doc.Tor said:

Do you think this system vil be able to stream TES IV Oblivion to twitch when overclocked ?

Should be, you can use NVENC to encode on the GPU and that'll probs be easier on your system, the 970 is still pretty darn powerful. 

[xg32]

8 hours ago, Doc.Tor said:

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it's one of the easiest chip to overclock, as voltage scales linearly with clocks up til 1.4v~, the performance increase is also largely linearly which is good, i had 2 2600ks, one did 1.42v 4.4 and the other 4.8, which in turn meant 1.3v would be roughly 4.1 and 4.5. i only used a cmps9900 and the temps never exceeded 85C on the cores, or 65/70C on the cpu package. Not sure about the streaming thing tho on 4 threads.