i5 max overclock 4.8Ghz?

[roadrunner197069]

I've gotten mine as high as 5.5, stable, but I had to do a lot more messing around with voltage than I was comfortable with.

Cough BS cough your stable and mine are two different stables. Show me a screenshot of 8 hour prime 95 @ 5.5 until then its not stable.

 

[cowfodder]

I've gotten mine as high as 5.5, stable, but I had to do a lot more messing around with voltage than I was comfortable with.

Cough BS cough your stable and mine are two different stables. Show me a screenshot of 8 hour prime 95 @ 5.5 until then its not stable.

My stable was running without KP, playing Portal2, WOW, Rift, and EVE with it at that speed for about 5 days, no sleep, no reboots. Honestly, above about 4.9 I didn't see any sort of performance increase to justify that much of an OC. I'm sure the fact that my H70 seems to keep my CPU below 50C no matter what I throw at it helps.

 

[Cavej03]

Do your over clocks show up in mac system info or if not there in benches. Im trying to clock my i7-2600k to 4ghz and I don't know if its working.

 

[Element515]

i didn't even know you could push the i5 all the way to 5ghz... wow. i was thinking of doing a small o/c eventually but only around 4.0 haha

 

[mrniceguy89]

I can only overclock my system to 4.6 or 4.7Ghz, any higher and i get the mac you need to restart your computer warning. is there something i need to do different? all i'm doing now is changing the cpu multiplier.

you need better ram.

 

[CoreOSX]

Is your ram ok? with that temp and volt of yours, the chip should have no prob to 5.0... most of d time its ur ram...

 

[magnosantos]

Question about Voltages.
On my Z68MX-UD2h-B3 with the i7 2600k the board identifies that the normal CPU Voltage is 1.35V, and from what i'm reading here it seems that you do overclock with less.