I just did a quick Prime Blend run and aircond remote is 24C/medium fan and it's on the other corner of the room, not blowing directly to my PC which is under the table. Temps are lingering around 60C's and I'm only using a Feser 360 with 3 x F12's. I also have a GTX 570 together with the loop The Gentle Typhoon won't do any better, maybe 1C or less (at least not noticeable in my tests) Sorry if some of the apps are outdated, haven't been updating myself of late. If I do a Small FFT, temps will go up a little bit more but it will never exceed 70C. 32nm on a WC setup with 80C+ load is a sad thing, haha. It needs a better radiator and like I said, those Black Ice GT are some of the worst rads around.

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The Feser surely won't fit but I've just ordered a PC-A05N I plan to have a MCR-320 on top and MCR-220 at the bottom. HDD bays would be removed. I think the issue here is if a custom WC kit running at 80C then something is really wrong somewhere as temps should be better. As long as we have reasonable fans then we're good, the RM60-70 fan won't make any wonders and even if it does, the difference are somewhat minimal.

I'm just trying to help, no harm done and sorry if I said anything wrong

Edit: I also forget to mention that I'm using a CRAP Aqua Kryos XT Delrin block It's not even an Apogee XT or anything of that sort.

There's no conclusive answer to this. Some chips can do more than 5ghz and some can't but literally 4.7ghz should be easy for a 2500k if you know what you're doing

cannot be

tested so many procs nearly 30
and all do 4.7-4.8ghz easy
worst was 1.44v for 4.8ghz

did u change ures to b3??

my b2 degraded confirmed
overclocks were getting haywire

That an answer only you can answer
Additional performance or lower temperature/voltage
I'd take additional performance

I dont know whether my proc is normal or not, but the vcore configs are like:
1.344v for 4.5ghz
=additional 0.048v for 300mhz inc
1.296v for 4.2ghz
=additional 0.102 v for 200mhz inc
1.192v for 4.0ghz
=additional 0.194v for 700mhz inc
~0.98v for 3.3ghz

thats why i stopped at 4.0ghz.. 1.344 vcore seems a bit high for 24/7 use..
BTW, my proc can pass 100 loops of linX if i lower the vcore for another 1-2 step but strangely the GFlop drops from 108+ to 79+..   which value should i go for? can somebody enlighten me?

4.9ghz@1.37v can consider good chip already bro...
btw im using custom water cooling...u can  refer my sig...

Grab Asus anytime bro.
Giga BIOS is problematic nowadays still cannot fix the multilevel LLC and has serious fluctuating vCore.

tat x fi is not x fi. just a software x fi

Water leakage??
No wonder u hv been silent for quite a while.

hi all, now im on i5 2500k 4.4 G OC, z68ap-d3 mobo, cooling not a problem since i use hyper 212 evo with 2 Arctic Cooling F12 fans, side panel use the hyper 212's fan, back using blade master 12, thinking of stepping up to 5.0G (only when called for), so how do i do this? i'm fine with low clock rates when normal use like surfing, but want to be smooth when doing some heavy load stuff

then how do i ensure it goes to the OC clock rate that i want on demand?

configuration in bios is...

and if only oc speedstep, then will any voltage tweak be needed, say.. 4.8ghz - 5 maybe..

er.. think of it as steps to overclock in bios, and the voltages and stuff, higher OC on demand i call it

but i'm on z68 board, and everything was on auto, only turbo core at 4.8

since at 4.8 it wont post, I'll be trying 4.7 tonight..