My computer is now working at 5Ghz, 24/7.
Overclocking a Sandy Bridge (i5-2500K) CPU is completely different from any other type of CPU I have ever done.

In short (to save yourself a lot of heartache) here is the recipe:

1 - Leave all of the CPU power features ON, turn off the turbo setting. Disable Spread Spectrum.

2 - Set your RAM to its specified speed and voltage.

3 - Increase your multiplier to 50.

4 - Increase your VCore to 1.4 volts (mine is 1.44V)

5 - Get a really good cooler cause it will get hot. And if it gets too hot it will throttle down to 2.shit Ghz and remain hot. But it wont fail (!).

Thats it! Even in Turbo mode, the core clocks down to 1.6Ghz when idle, and my temps sit around 20-25Degrees in idle! Under load (@5Ghz) Coretemp maxed at 69Degrees then stabilised. I havent given it a burn-in yet, its only been on for a couple of hours. Im using this cooler:

http://images.esellerpro.com/2272/I/135/61/mugen%202%20ebay%20logo.jpg

The fan is a 120mm fan to give an idea of scale. I have 2 fans on my cooler, one is at 100% permanently.

End log. 

out of curiosity, i thought the latest trend in cpus was for more and more parallelism-- more cores. but 5ghz is insanely fast. i thought there was some kind of thermal limit to how fast they could make the cores run at before temperatures became unmanageable...

ugh, i guess i should get back into the whole computer hardware stuff. seems like i have to relearn the whole thing every few years. :S 

http://pnmedia.gamespy.com/planetquake.gamespy.com/images/oldsite/clusterimages/ikspq2.jpg

When I was younger I used to find that screenshot beautiful, and now I can't help but think "misaligned texture" 

 

although i had to load up the map to actually notice it... 

I assumed he meant the unmitered window frame. 

what Negke said.

I'd say that to CZG too, but feel totally unqualified. 

heh, i need to finish hl2sp level i've been on this summer 

just stirring. 

holy shit, 20k in GA soon. o.0

that's a lot of abuse. 

finally!!

Time to go try out the maps from this year. 

I havent been able to have quake music for years due to a sound card issue on my old rig.

No issues on the new machine, and boy is it good to hear it again. 

? 

I think posted a bit last year when I got it. It's nothing special:

AMD Phenom II X$ 965 3.40 Ghz
8GB RAM
GTX465 

Gonna have pancakes for breakfast and then see if I can find that GTX580 in a shop somewhere. 

 

Death to capitalism! Imprision the free market! 

You never blog :( 

I keep forgetting it exists, and I've started writing in my secret gay-blog instead. 

I sent an email yesterday on my mobile using some gmail mini thing, and the damn thing appended a "sent from my mobile device" sig. What the fuck!? Don't do this google!


-- Sent from my heart. 

It can be solved through your settings... in iPhone you can select the signature, and remove the "send from my iPhone" sentence and replace it by something else (or simply remove it)...
Just check your setting ;) 

is an fov change recommended? If so, to what? 

 

nitin: For 1680x1050 fov 105 is the fov 90 equivalent. 

what Spirit said.