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How to Overclock an LGA1155 CPU

Published on 3rd January 2011 by bit-tech Staff

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How to Overclock an LGA1155 CPU

The Internet has been alight with rumours that the new LGA1155 CPUs arent overclockable, that the CPUs are locked and that this is the end of PC enthusiasm as we know it. That isnt quite accurate, however, as different Sandy Bridge CPUs have different overclocking capabilities. However, overclocking via the Base Clock is severely limited, due to the constraint of having every bus derive its speed from a single clockgen. We saw a Base Clock overclock of 5MHz from the standard 100MHz produce crashes and lock-ups; even Intel says that its highly unlikely that youll see the Base Clock of an Intel 6-series motherboard overclock by more than 10 per cent.

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Overclock a Core i5-2500K to 4.5GHz

1. Enter the BIOS by pressing Delete as the PC starts 2. Enter the Advanced menu by clicking the button in the top-right corner 3. Set the CPU multiplier to 45x 4. Enable Load-Line Calibration 5. Set the CPU voltage to 1.3-1.35V 6. Set the CPU PLL to 1.9V 7. Set the VCCSA to 1.1V 8. Set the VCCIO to 1.106V 9. Hit F10 to save and restart

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Default Frequency Intel Core i7-980X EE Intel Core i7-950 Overclocked Frequency Other Adjusted Frequencies RAM: 1,600MHz RAM: 1,499MHz Settings Used CPU: 1.38125V, CPU PLL: 1.96V, QPI: 1.375V, IOH: 1.3V, ICH: 1.2V CPU: 1.468V, CPU PLL: 1.94V, QPI/DRAM: 1.306V, IOH: 1.22V, ICH: 1.3V CPU: 1.512V, CPU/NB: 1.35V, HT: 1.35V, Northbridge: 1.3V, Southbridge: 1.2V Extreme Load-Line Calibration, CPU: 1.35V, CPU PLL: 1.9V, VCCSA: 1.1V, VCCIO: 1.106V Extreme Load-Line Calibration, CPU: 1.35V, CPU PLL: 1.9V, VCCSA: 1.1V, VCCIO: 1.106V

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