Alright, i recently got myself a i5-2500k along with a asrock extreme3 gen3. I wanted to OC so i bought a H100 to go with my Azza Hurrican 2000 so cooling is not an issue.
I started to OC, it was my second the first one was a mild one with the AMD Phenom II x4 955, i brought it to 3.8Ghz on stock cooler.
My first step was to test out 4Ghz. I had no problem reaching it, cool temp and low voltage, voltage around 1.260. I was pleased so i pushed to 4.4Ghz. It was great, no issues, ran prime95 for around 2 hours, got max between 55-60 and my voltage was around 1.270-1.310. So obviously i saw that there was more room so i tried to proceed.
Then the errors started.
Voltage is set to Auto since it stayed decently low, i prefered to keep it like that.
I then tried to set the multiplier to 46.
The machine booted up, almost reached windows but then BSOD with a bad pool error.
Restarted, thinking it was an isolated issue. Ran a chkdsk... ran into another BSOD saying that there was hardware issue. I figured it was related to back pool error.
I also tried 47 and 48. Ran into a bdos right away, right after motherboard boot. voltage was manually set to 1.420.
I am wondering if it is not a motherboard problem instead of a CPU issue. Since usually the i5-2500k can reach 4.6 no problem.
I reverted back to the 4.4Ghz, it loaded without any BDOS and i am not getting the bad pool error.
It is also running cool.
Thanks.
I started to OC, it was my second the first one was a mild one with the AMD Phenom II x4 955, i brought it to 3.8Ghz on stock cooler.
My first step was to test out 4Ghz. I had no problem reaching it, cool temp and low voltage, voltage around 1.260. I was pleased so i pushed to 4.4Ghz. It was great, no issues, ran prime95 for around 2 hours, got max between 55-60 and my voltage was around 1.270-1.310. So obviously i saw that there was more room so i tried to proceed.
Then the errors started.
Voltage is set to Auto since it stayed decently low, i prefered to keep it like that.
I then tried to set the multiplier to 46.
The machine booted up, almost reached windows but then BSOD with a bad pool error.
Restarted, thinking it was an isolated issue. Ran a chkdsk... ran into another BSOD saying that there was hardware issue. I figured it was related to back pool error.
I also tried 47 and 48. Ran into a bdos right away, right after motherboard boot. voltage was manually set to 1.420.
I am wondering if it is not a motherboard problem instead of a CPU issue. Since usually the i5-2500k can reach 4.6 no problem.
I reverted back to the 4.4Ghz, it loaded without any BDOS and i am not getting the bad pool error.
It is also running cool.
Thanks.