- Jan 7, 2012
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I am less than novice when it comes to overclocking. When I built my rig 2 years ago, I tried my hand and failed...the results were constant instability.
I was bored this weekend and decided to try it again, but because I can't remember how to "properly" overclock myself, I used Gigabyte's TouchBios to ramp it up to "Twin Turbo" (CPU 4.47ghz BCLK 104mhz) which failed a Prime95 benchmark pretty quickly.
I went down to "Turbo" (CPU 4.33ghz BCLK 103mhz) and it passed the benchmark, but just crashed on me while surfing the web. No time to stress test either yet, but figure now it's pointless as it crashes doing menial labor.
I went back to "Faster" (CPU 3.77ghz BCLK 102mhz), but I thought the i2500k was supposed to be a fantastic overclocker. What is going wrong? Should I just leave it alone as it's an "aging" rig?
CPU/RAM Intel i5-2500k
Memory Corsair Vengeance 2x 4gb
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3
I was bored this weekend and decided to try it again, but because I can't remember how to "properly" overclock myself, I used Gigabyte's TouchBios to ramp it up to "Twin Turbo" (CPU 4.47ghz BCLK 104mhz) which failed a Prime95 benchmark pretty quickly.
I went down to "Turbo" (CPU 4.33ghz BCLK 103mhz) and it passed the benchmark, but just crashed on me while surfing the web. No time to stress test either yet, but figure now it's pointless as it crashes doing menial labor.
I went back to "Faster" (CPU 3.77ghz BCLK 102mhz), but I thought the i2500k was supposed to be a fantastic overclocker. What is going wrong? Should I just leave it alone as it's an "aging" rig?
CPU/RAM Intel i5-2500k
Memory Corsair Vengeance 2x 4gb
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-Z68AP-D3
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