MikeKay1976
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Hi
I have an i5 2500K which runs nice and stable at 4.33ghz on my P8P67 Deluxe (V3)
I have had it up to 4.5 or 4.6ghz (I cant remember) but it gets a little flakey.
however I was having a look.... currently it is on a fairly old bios. (I think it is 1503 from April 2011)
since then there has been a number of new bioses and most of them mention improving system stability, the most recent one, 3602 I believe which is less than a year old.
Part of me thinks, if it is not broke dont fix it..... But the other part of me things, I am getting a new GPU soon (probably a GTX980) and I will need every bit of juice I can get out of my aging 3.5 year old (but fantastic even now imo) Sandy i5 so as not to bottleneck.
Has anyone any experience with updating to the newer bioses on these old chipsets? Did it really offer any more stablility - esp on the overclocking front - or should I leave well alone whilst I have a nicely overclocked and very well behaving PC?
thanks
I have an i5 2500K which runs nice and stable at 4.33ghz on my P8P67 Deluxe (V3)
I have had it up to 4.5 or 4.6ghz (I cant remember) but it gets a little flakey.
however I was having a look.... currently it is on a fairly old bios. (I think it is 1503 from April 2011)
since then there has been a number of new bioses and most of them mention improving system stability, the most recent one, 3602 I believe which is less than a year old.
Part of me thinks, if it is not broke dont fix it..... But the other part of me things, I am getting a new GPU soon (probably a GTX980) and I will need every bit of juice I can get out of my aging 3.5 year old (but fantastic even now imo) Sandy i5 so as not to bottleneck.
Has anyone any experience with updating to the newer bioses on these old chipsets? Did it really offer any more stablility - esp on the overclocking front - or should I leave well alone whilst I have a nicely overclocked and very well behaving PC?
thanks