Overclocking Intel i5 CPUs

Whilst farting around the interweb this morning, I came across this step-by-step guide to overclocking the newer Intel i5 CPUs. There aren't any screen shots to accompany the steps, I REALLY think the guide would have benefit greatly from some screen shots. The guide is what I'd call "quick-n-dirty" as it just gets right to the point without any "fluff" which is probably what I should have done with this post. LOL

Here's the link:
http://www.funkykit.com/articles/7263-how-to-overclock-you-intel-processor-core-i5-series.html

Enjoy!

 

If you've got a decent MB from the likes of Gigabyte or MSI and have a decent cooler then it's really easy.

Go into BIOS, set the FSB to 200, multi to 20, Vcore to 1.3750, Disable speed step, C1E etc, make sure RAM is at specified timings, speed.

Done, 4Ghz overclock in seconds.

However a 4.4Ghz overclock takes a little bit longer

 

1.3750V?Damn!That's with water right?May I ask what cooler your using and your temps?

I'm currently running my I7 930 stock undervolted @1.1V until I get a water setup,it goes to to 4ghz@1.25V but the heat it puts out is tremendous.

 

That was actually a typo :-o i meant to say 1.3250

Mine is in a custom water loop and has 1.424 volts through it and hits around 65c max. but i've run other i5's at that voltage with £20 air coolers with no troubles. Obviously the lower the voltage the better, some can run at 4Ghz with voltages as low as 1.28, but most need atleast 1.30