Need help with new 2500K system

[_dangtx_]

yup. or hold del at boot, see if recovery pops up.

[frontier204]

What are you using to read your voltages? I found OCCT to be way off, (it says I'm at 1.42V vCore), so the only utility I trust is the motherboard's OCing software (for me that's Gigabyte EasyTune, which states 1.260V, which is in line with the 1.255 I set in BIOS).

At 4.2GHz I never broke 56 degrees C in stress tests (Prime95 in-place FFT, Linpack), and that's on a Prolimatech Megahalems + Arctic Silver 5 + Scythe S-Flex fan. See if you can use a lower voltage but with VDroop Control / Load Line Calibration turned on.

[SneakySnake]

I use OCCT on my 2500k as well and don't take into account what it says for voltages and stuff. Apparently it has to be updated for the Sandy chips.