MSI OC Genuie II worth anything?

[Zaquel]

So i havent clocked a computer in a very long time, and now that i got a brand new computer myself, i fugured - well lets clock it!

But then i remembered the nice little button on my motherboard saying "OC geniue II"

I pressed it, and it went from 1500 MHz to 3800 MHz - See my sig.

The temp. when idle (right now) is on all 4 cores 38 degrees celcious, with a max recorded so far to be 46 degrees.

I know its possible to get way more from it (seen up to 5,2, possible even more i guess).


Is it "good enough" or should i go manually and try to push it even further :-) ?

My "target" is, to run BattleField 3 on max when it reaches the stores.

[jonny888]

Would probably help if you said what your CPU actually was. I don't know of any CPU that is 1.5 GHz at stock which goes up to 5.2 GHz without some incredible cooling. So saying a model number will help

[Zaquel]

Yea okay - but if you read the sig.

Cpu: Intel core i5 2500k Sandy Bridge

[jonny888]

Yea okay - but if you read the sig.

Cpu: Intel core i5 2500k Sandy Bridge

Fair comment ^^ (Sorry, it's been a long day). Well tbh it sounds pretty odd. A 2500k should've been around 3.2 GHz anyway. Why it was running at 1.5 GHz I can't fathom. And yeh going from 3.2 to 3.8 isn't huge. You could quite happily take it up to 4.6 without much effort. More than that and you'll need at least a non-stock cooler to keep the temps down to reasonable levels. but there's no reason you couldn't do it.

[BicycleMafioso]

Are you sure it's an i5-2500K? It usually is reported as such in CPU-Z, and yours is reporting i5-2500.
The 2500K is also only at 1500MHz with power-savings and speedstep turned on, something that actually is recommended with the Sandy Bridge CPUs. The OC-genie, iirc, should overclock your CPU to 4.2GHz if it's a K-model, but I may be confusing it with some of the other motherboard auto-overclockfunctions.

[Zaquel]

Oh lol you are totally correct - i allwayse mistake that.

Yes, it is the 2500 version, not 2500k. Was told not to get the 2500K.

Edit:

So, now that its a i5 2500 (lol) - is 3,8GHz worth mentioning, or is there something i should do different. Im not that much into the new CPU's so you will be able to learn me something.

Also, sorry about the spelling.

[jonny888]

Oh lol you are totally correct - i allwayse mistake that.

Yes, it is the 2500 version, not 2500k. Was told not to get the 2500K.

You want to overclock and were told NOT to get the K version? Only the K versions have an unlocked multiplier, which is what you want to increase when you OC a Sandybridge CPU. Non-K Sandybridge CPUs really don't OC that much. Tbh on a non-K version I'm impressed you got it up to 3.8 stable at those temps.

[Zaquel]

Yea, some dude told me that if im not that good with clocking, i should go with 2500, as it would be safer. I can see why

Now - did i make a mistake? I got it to 3800 MHz, i should be able to play "demanding" games, right?

[jonny888]

Yea, some dude told me that if im not that good with clocking, i should go with 2500, as it would be safer. I can see why

Now - did i make a mistake? I got it to 3800 MHz, i should be able to play "demanding" games, right?

Yeah, you should be fine. Modern games usually stress the GPU more than the CPU anyway.

[Zaquel]

Ah okay.

As GPU i use MSI GeForce GTX 570 Twin Frozr II OC - should be able to take most games :-)

[jonny888]

Yeh, you should be fine for BF3 then. I believe they set a recommended spec for anything above a GTX 560. I couldn't say what frames you'll get on max settings but it should at the very least be fully playable on normal settings.