If I try to OC my i5 2500k, it always ends up on the bluescreen. No matter if I try overclocking with detailed guides from the bios or with the AI suite. Even a overclock to 3.4Ghz will cause it to crash. I have some random Swiftech heatsink and the temperature never goes above 60c with overclocks before crashing. I have tried updating BIOS, but it didnt help. I need to overclock in order to prevent my CPU from bottlenecking the GPU.
I ment how is he overclocking his clip, they are not methods they are tools to overclock. If he is using multi or Bus ?
Blue screen could also be RAM overclock such as when increasing bus it also increases the RAM speeds. But as brennanriddell said you can increase your voltage but I dont think that the case as even when doing a 3.3Ghz it still come with blue screen :S Go with stock first and it still happerns, try giving the blue screen error number to us or re-install win and then try,
On the stock clock (3.3Ghz) it works just fine. If I go even slightly up from that it will end up on bluescreen. I have tried overclocking with the AI suite and directly from BIOS. I also have tried re-installing windows and it didn´t help. I have no clue what you mean if im using multi or BUS :D
EDIT: Okay, so it says on the bluescreen: A clock interrupt was not received on a secondary processor within the allocated time interval.
Try raising your volts on the vcore, pch (just a little) & pll (just a little - max at 1.9v though). Drop you ram down to 1600 or below or just set to default until you get your oc stable enough. Then start buming it up.
Up the multipier one step at a time. Unless the cpu is flogged out you should easily get over 4ghz with volts below 1.45.
If there is a setting for LLC then up it to the maximum as well.