Hi everyone!
Made new account because I actually forgot my old details :X regular reader but I rarely post, which now shows... anyway, back to the problem.
I've finally upgraded my good old Q6600 to parts mentioned in the title, did my reading on setup and so on, but yea BIOS these days is a bit different from my old nforce so I'm not fully familiar with it yet.
The goal is to overclock my cpu to 4.5ghz, safe on air, in my case I'm watercooling it so should be even better.
In regards to my settings, used this:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/07/how-to-overclock-the-intel-core-i5-2500k/4
as a guide for starters, to roughly get an idea of what I'm aiming for and in which department, so my values are currently exactly as show there.
Heres the thing - upon boot to windows both CPU-Z and simple windows computer properties both show clock at stock 3.4ghz and multiplier still at x34 with cpu voltage at 1.488.
Am I missing something? Appreciate any wisdom shared!
Made new account because I actually forgot my old details :X regular reader but I rarely post, which now shows... anyway, back to the problem.
I've finally upgraded my good old Q6600 to parts mentioned in the title, did my reading on setup and so on, but yea BIOS these days is a bit different from my old nforce so I'm not fully familiar with it yet.
The goal is to overclock my cpu to 4.5ghz, safe on air, in my case I'm watercooling it so should be even better.
In regards to my settings, used this:
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2011/01/07/how-to-overclock-the-intel-core-i5-2500k/4
as a guide for starters, to roughly get an idea of what I'm aiming for and in which department, so my values are currently exactly as show there.
Heres the thing - upon boot to windows both CPU-Z and simple windows computer properties both show clock at stock 3.4ghz and multiplier still at x34 with cpu voltage at 1.488.
Am I missing something? Appreciate any wisdom shared!