Hey there. I know the Bnet forums is not really the place for this specifically but I'm interested in what The Flood thinks of this. So I'm pretty new to overclocking, dabbled in GPU OC a bit and researched CPU OCing a lot. Yesterday I got serious about getting a safe OC and keeping it. First, my specs are: -Intel i5-2500K, default clock is 3.3GHz and overclocked it to 4.2GHz -Gigabyte Gigabyte GA-Z68X-UD3H-B3 Motherboard -212+ CPU heat sink and fan -Crucial Ballistix Sport Series 8GB DDR3-1666 (2x4) Memory -OCZ MODXStream-Pro 80 Plus Bronze 500W Power Supply -TP-Link Wireless -HAF 912 Case So yesterday I set the core clock to 4.2GHz with the normal 100x multiplier. I have Intel Turbo Boost clock set off, and C1E and C3/C6 states off. I disabled the Virtualization and PLL Overvoltage. I then have the VCore at 1.290V and Multi-Steps Load-Line at level 4 out of 10. I didn't touch the Memory at all. I ended up running Prime95 in Blend mode for 10 hours, overnight, and had no errors So I can probably keep this stable for a while now but I want to tinker a bit more and possibly lower the VCore. The four cores averaged at 72C at 100% load for the 10 hours. CPU Z and HWMonitor reported the VCore going from 1.22-1.26 most if the time and it peaked at 1.308V. I now have LLC to lvl 3 and 1.280 VCore and I'm going to try running Intel Burn Test. I may try to turn off LLC and use voltage offset but I'm not sure how to set it to equal what I'm getting now or what I did have. Ah, and I disabled HPET in the BIOS and Windows for further testing, mainly game-wise. Any ideas or input? Thanks for your time!