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I5 2500k oc with oc genie.

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September 13, 2014 3:32:48 AM

Hi all,
Im running oc genie and its boosted my cpu to 4.200 ghz from 3.300 ghz, Now my question is can I have Intel turbo boost enabled on top of this or will it damaged my cpu?

I have a Coolermaster Hyper T4 CPU Cooler .

Hope someone can advise..

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September 13, 2014 3:55:27 AM

Yes you can - but it might not do that much since it accelerates when it feels able, which is largely down to how hot the chip is. So leave it on, but don't pay too much attention to it.

Overall, as ever when OCing, watch your temperatures, and don't put too much voltage through your chip.

With a better cooler, a 2500K can probably go a fair bit faster btw, depending on your mobo etc
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September 13, 2014 4:02:31 AM

You can prefer to keep it on, it'll adjust the speed as and when required ('efficient') or else you can keep the speed to a static 4.2GHz, as your wish. I'd get static by disabling Turbo, but that's just me :) 
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September 13, 2014 4:06:24 AM

Thanks for the reply, I think I give it a try.
my motherboard is a msi z68a-g43 (g3) and the cooler is as good as it gets for now..
I have been reading a bit about overclocking the chip to 4.500 ghz but it sounds like such a small jump I doubt it would do anything to the frame rate
of games..
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September 13, 2014 7:55:17 AM

Not quite, it'll be a very slight increase in FPS, if any at all, but OCing is not only about FPS in games, or, is it, in your case?
4.5GHz is a 1.2GHz performance increase from stock clock, which's quite a bit performance wise. Compare your OC to stock speeds, not previous OC. Gaming doesn't reflect much in i5's OC, try some benchmark like Unigine, you'll understand the difference :) 
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September 13, 2014 8:40:14 AM

Well yeah, right now as ive just picked up a new graphics card and cpu cooler im trying to bump up the speed of games but once ive got things ticking over nice I might explore other things.
You see im an old, old school gamer, started off with a VIC-20 and ZX spectrum, and stopped with an Amiga A500 with a half meg upgrade.
I got back into it a while back and now the pc is my Stereo, video and where I put my photos and stuff but not much else.
What do people do with all this pc power now days.
Off topic I used to have a screen saver that Evolved different things that could move about and ive often wondered if there is any software to allow me to give this kind of thing a try.
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September 13, 2014 8:59:53 AM

The performance can increase from 2-5 FPS to 15-20 FPS depending on how single or multi thread oriented the game is. Generally speaking, single threaded games will get good ~10-15 FPS boost from 1GHz OC while multi thread oriented games will get ~5-10FPS boost.

So OCing does has an effect, how much? Can't really make a statement, but generally it'll increase performance from stock, won't notice much difference (a couple FPS at most) with jumping from 4.2 to 4.5, but if you can do it, why not!

So it really depends if you want those couple FPS (not always) or not :) 

Also, you can set the screen saver to 'bubbles' which'd move bubbles around when screen is not at use, provided you don't have the monitor set to sleep. Or for something more advanced, have a look here:
http://www.wikihow.com/Get-an-Animated-Desktop-Backgrou...

PS: I started gaming on that sort of video gaming console we attached to TV via analog cables with ink cartidge which lied that it had 5000 games, Mario and that Duck shooting being my fav x)
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