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***Official Ivybridge Overclock Thread***

Hi guys just thought I would post my experience with my 3570k
Got a 24/7 over clock of 4.5 @ 1.104v with good temps
Highest over clock of 5.2 @ 1.512
 
Pretty neat overclock for 4.5Ghz on stock volts. I can only get 4.5Ghz with 1.280v

1.512v ! What were the temps on IBT with that? You must have some serious water cooling for that?
 
@hank
temps for the 5.2 is crazy high (high 90s across the board) and never would be a 24/7 Overclock just wanted to see what top over clock for that chip was :-).

But have a nice stable 5Ghz @ 1.400v with Mid 60s to Low 70stemp I could run when crunching numbers

But in fairness my 4.5Ghz has more than enough power for my daily life :-)

As for cooling:
Rez. Koolance RP-452x2 latest version
Pump. Alpha cool VPP655 x2 set up in serial and at speed 2 for both
Rads. Swifttech MCR420QP x2 Fans. Corsair Air Series SP120 Quiet Edition x8 running @ 1000rpm GPU Block.
Koolance for a HD 5800
CPU Block. EK Supremacy 1155
TIM. Indigo Extreme Fluid. Distilled water
All wrapped up in a Caselabs TH10 case
 
Well got all my gear now to upgrade, now the fear is kicking in. You know the one where you think oh god i gotta take it apart and put the new stuff in do a format of the ssd and stick windows on again and set all that up then i gotta do hours and hours of overclock testing and then ill end up just watching anime and not game with it :p

So to recap.

Going from

q6600 @ 3.2ghz using a tuniq tower 120
gtx 460 1gb asus
4gb ddr 2 hyper x ram (nice ram too)
p5kc motherboard with custom bios for ahci support
corsair hx620 psu

Going to
i5 3570k
gigabyte z77 d3h (got the latest bios f18 i think on the usb drive incase i need it)
antec kuhler 620 with 2 gentle typoon 1850rpm fans i got and the antec fan will be front intake instead
gtx 570 phantom
corsair 8gb dd3 1600mhz 1.35 low volt ram in white (looks mint and will go nice with the mb white and blue look)

Same things used from old setup

Dvdrw liteon
Corsair hx620 psu
p160w case
hard drives 3 sata and 1 ssd

Lookin forward to trying it out on gta iv, bf3 (maybe) and star trek online. Main 3 games i play these days. Tho might just stick others on see how they go too.
 
To all those who have delidded and replaced the Intel thermal paste with liquid metal, how are you finding the temps with your overclocks? Is there still the same difference in temps from when you did it?
 
The TIM is not the best quility, but in fairness there not a huge drop in temp people wish for a drop yes and if you going for bleeding edge clock it could make all the diffrents before you hit the thermal throttle,

Replaced IHS paste good old lap and used indigo extream on top drop temps buy 6c across the board, but it was a hell of a lot of work,

Was going to try a naked die mount at some point see what happens :-).

Sadly due to die shrink and 3d gates there a hot little chip :'(
 
Must be nice having a decent watercooling system! My D-14 at 4.5 GHz gets up to 90 on 1 core, but mostly high 70's. Still don't understand the correct temps for this chip. I run 1.116V at 4.2GHz, max temp is 60c on core 2. rest are at 56-58c. I'd like to get to 4.5 but not sure about my temps.
 
-Mike- said:
Incase you didn't notice - he's not running prime with AVX!
Click to expand...

Neither was the guy I was comparing to :p It's equally fine on the AVX version at 4.5 @ 1.2v, although 4.6 @ 1.235v got rounding errors it didn't on the older Prime. It managed a good few rounds though so I'd guess it'd get away with 1.25 or so.

The thermal paste seems to have set now, if anything the temps are lower than before, 15 minutes in and 65 degrees max.
 
BrainB what volts you pushing though at 4.5? You maybe able to lower you CPU PLL to help shave a few degrees at 4.5 I was able to drop my CPU PLL down to 1.450 a shaved 3 degrees off for free :-)
 
Yeah bought the 570 and have it here with me now, ill probs sell the 460 to bro for £75 so its what £55 total it really cost me? Not too bad i reckon overall for a gfx card upgrade which should last longer than the 460 plus the 20fps extra it gives in a lot of games at 1080p will be nice too (according to benchmarks and reviews).

If i dont get on with the 570 for whatever reason i think i could make my money back easily enough i mean if i payed £130 for one of the nicer 570s (phantoms i hear are hard to get hold of) then im sure someone else would pay that for it.
 
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