Intel i5 2400 OC temps and other questions.

Wriqht · Mar 20, 2013

Hi, Alright so i OC'ed my i5 2400 to 3.50ghz and ran prime95 for an hour (I know thats not long) max temp for package was 69 Celcius. My main question is, Is that a safe temp and is there room to go to maybe 3.60 or 3.70ghz?

The way i got the OC was changing multiplier to 35x and disabling the turbo boost and any power saving/lowering things.

Thank you in advance.

Azn Cracker · Mar 20, 2013

for prime 95 thats a good temp. regular uses wont get that high

Wriqht · Mar 20, 2013

Azn Cracker :

Alright thank you im going to be mainly playing BF3 and 3d programs.

Azn Cracker · Mar 20, 2013

Yea 4.0 isnt even that high. You will be fine. If you do 3.6 ghz, its better to just leave it at stock because you wont see any gains. Btw what's your cpu cooler?

bdiddytampa · Mar 20, 2013

If he's getting 70C out of 3.5 ghz then I'd be willing to throw a guess out there, stock cooler

Wriqht · Mar 20, 2013

bdiddytampa :

Nope, I have a Cooler master Hyper N520.

Wriqht · Mar 20, 2013

Azn Cracker :

I have a Cooler master Hyper N520. And also would i have to Up the voltage if i wanted to go to 3.7 or higher?

k1114 · Mar 20, 2013

Run cpuz and see what your actual speed is and also what is your vcore. His other thread says he has a hyper n520 so 69 is high for that cooler.

blazorthon · Mar 20, 2013

That's much better than the stock cooler AFAIK, so temps like that seem oddly high even for stress testing. Still I wouldn't be worried about those temps.

There is room for a little more overclocking, but not much more. That's not even because of the temps, but simply because the i5-2400 doesn't have much room for overclocking because of its mostly locked multiplier.

simon12 · Mar 20, 2013

Since the 2400 is not unlocked I thought 400MHz + turbo was the maximum overclock ie max 3.5GHz with 4 cores active 3.8GHz with 1 core active. Am I wrong?

blazorthon · Mar 20, 2013

simon12 :

Actually, you can set its Turbo up to run around 3.8GHz or 3.9GHz even with all four cores active. You can probably get a little further with a little BLCK overclocking too, granted that won't go far.

Wriqht · Mar 20, 2013

k1114 :

Voltage is 1.044v and Core Speed 3510.28

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