I7 2600 3.4ghz Should i?

Toonie · Apr 27, 2015

Hello , i have an intel i7 2600 3.4ghz and i was thinking to overclock it but first i really need to ask some people that might know so .... here i am

I had a problem with it few weeks ago , was getting overheat , because i forgot to install some things ....... but not it's fine in stress test it's not going to overheat again and no fps drop.
Any chance i can overclock it, safe ofc?

https://imgur.com/QeCSWGW

This is my rig

ATMINSIDE · Apr 27, 2015

You won't push that one very far, it has a locked multiplier.

Toonie · Apr 28, 2015

i understand

but still any tips? how much can i get? should i do it? i shouldn't? playing an mmorpg an i rly need to boost a bit , and get more smoothness

ATMINSIDE · Apr 28, 2015

You'd be better off getting a real GPU than trying to push for the extra 1-2% you'd get from an overclock.

unclewebb · Apr 28, 2015

ATMINSIDE said:
You won't push that one very far, it has a locked multiplier.

No it doesn't. The non-K CPUs supported limited overclocking. On the appropriate board, the multiplier can be increased by +4 bins of turbo boost.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-bridge-core-i7-2600k-core-i5-2500k,2833-9.html

The Core i7-2600 has a default speed of 3.4 GHz and a maximum Turbo Boost speed of 3.8 GHz. When overclocking, this can go up to 4.2 GHz when a single core is active. It is well worth pursuing this extra performance.

trents · May 3, 2015

So what do you mean by "the appropriate board"? What features would the bios need to have in this case scenario? Anything special?

EarthDog · May 3, 2015

unclewebb said:
No it doesn't. The non-K CPUs supported limited overclocking. On the appropriate board, the multiplier can be increased by +4 bins of turbo boost.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/sandy-bridge-core-i7-2600k-core-i5-2500k,2833-9.html

The Core i7-2600 has a default speed of 3.4 GHz and a maximum Turbo Boost speed of 3.8 GHz. When overclocking, this can go up to 4.2 GHz when a single core is active. It is well worth pursuing this extra performance.

Last I recall, you can only increase turbo to all the cores to the max multi for single core. You don't increase to max turbo from all cores and then get more from a single core on top of that...Can you?

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