Thread: Building a PC

For sure bro, my old computer heated my room nicely for years.
That was overclocked from 2.4ghz to 3ghz.

edit: I say that only half seriously. Low temps are good man.
but yeah...I do think you should OC. Seems you have the capability for it np, and you can get more speed out of what you got. Your motherboard will make it easy...I don't see a reason not to.

You say you're afraid of breaking it, but the only way you'd do that is if you overclocked it massively right away and had like really shit cooling. Which you don't, and if you read some guides for your chip, watch some videos, or just use your motherboards ability...you'll be fine.

The key to overclocking is increasing by small amounts and testing and then repeat until you get a crash, then go back down one notch until it didn't crash.
Or, just use mobo . Too easy nowadays...from what I've read though, mobo auto overclock abilties usually set the vcore too high, just to be safe for stability. But it will raise temps. So if you do that, test it for a bit, then maybe think about lowering the vcore? It's up to you. I'm going to try this at the weekend. My cvore is currently 1.3561, but I've read 1.3-1.35 is usually for getting 4.5ghz on the 2500k. I'm on 4.2ghz, so I might try to get it down to 1.3 or maybe even 1.25...see how it goes