Temperature limit for Benchmarking Intel Core i5-2500K

[Echa]

Right now I have achieved Intel Core i5-2500K at 5gh. The pc is in action now but I am seeing slight overheating at 1.5+ volts mark. So I think that I need to add more volts to that. I heard that more than 70C for CPU shuts down everything. But is it a good temp for benchmarking?

[GadhadharY]

Everyone knows that the Intel runs hotter than AMD. You can see significant different in temps among both brand processor. As far I know that less that 70c is safe but general OC principles apply to the better cooler

[Svana]

The multiplier of 2500K can be set to 57, which in theory a speed of 5.7 GHz is feasible with a BCLK of 100MHz. Because of the new architecture is also no longer been possible to increase as shown in earlier architectures. Because this is made of a ring bus architecture contains all apparatus coupled to the base clock 100MHz, so that when the overclocking thereof not only the CPUs goes up but also the SATA and PCIecontroller. A pair MHz is usually required, but much higher than 105MHz found in practice not feasible. My 2500K I therefore enjoy a BCLK of 100MHz and leave it running.

[KennedII]

The 2500K is a very nice CPU. When I look at the price / performance than the i5 2500K I think a better choice than the i7 2600K at the moment. The IGP is more than fine for office work, desk work and even play games on it is still quite reasonable if you're not too demanding. All in all I am very pleased with the performance, and this is a more than excellent CPU for the user who just want a good and fast system.

[Upendra]

In my case Optimal would be as follows:

• IDLE: 52-56 C.
• Load: 65 C (60-62 C during heavy overclocking)

Maximum useful are:

• Idle: 62 C
• Load: 70 C

The housing temperature and CPU fan intake should not exceed the Intel systems, 39 C. In the more remote corners like the hard drive cages, the lower PCI cards or directly to the memory modules, it may be 45 C. The readout in the BIOS can sometimes be inaccurate [depending on the BIOS (quality)], moreover, the burden often higher than in the BIOS under Windows in idle.

[Munishi3]

The TDP of 95 watts provides a relatively low heat. This is of course exponentially during overclock, by increasing the voltage Just to illustrate: under Intel burn test, the processor (stock) goes up to 32 Degrees and with overclocking to 4.4 Ghz, this was up to 51 degrees. Well of course the processor does not have the least cooler but this gives enough cooling somewhat to the heat.

[Gimbya]

I have used 3 tools to test the benchmark results of Core i5-2500K and here is what I got:

• SuperPi : SuperPI calculates the number pi to x decimal places. A score of 9 minutes 10.522 seconds for 1 million and 32,973 seconds for 32 million decimal places removed.
• Cinebench 11.5: Cinebench is a fully multithreaded benchmark, which also makes for a nice score here. 5.26 points is nice have not overclocked.
• WPrime : WPrime is fully multithreaded, which makes this a score of 12,044 seconds.

[Ramona19]

I think that the Z68 chipset does not often display the temperature in the BIOS. So the best thing to do is to install a tool under Windows i such as Motherboard Monitor or Hmonitor and test it again. If the CPU temperature with the BIOS CPU temperature matches, you should again check the correct positioning of the radiator and / or use a better cooler with good thermal paste. Only then we can start to Overclock.