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Should I bother overclocking my 3570k?

opethdisciple

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Been running my 3570k at stock since it came out. Been a bit anti overclocking it as I like it to be stable and with games these days being gpu limited is it really worth it?

Im hoping someone will convince me. :D

I've been trying to find benchmarks to show real word gains from overclocking but seem to be coming up short.
 
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I don't see why you wouldn't really. I got my 3570k late 2012 and has run at 4.5Ghz/1.2V without a hitch.

Depending on what cooler you have you might not get that far but 4Ghz shouldn't be too difficult.
 
The real question isn't "Why should/shouldn't I overclock?" it's "What is currently happening on my system?"

Play what you want to play/do what you want to do, and see if you're maxing your CPU at the time. If yes, an overclock will most likely give you a performance boost. If no, don't bother, the extra heat/power consumption/chance of instability won't gain you anything anyway.
 
troops said:
Bit silly buying a K model in the first place then, just bump it upto 4ghz.
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Depends. The K-series CPUs are barely any more expensive than the ones just below them in the pecking order so might still be a great choice for those not wishing to overclock.
 
Your going to :p even further. I have a Noctua dh14 sitting on top of the cpu. :eek:

If I was going to go for a 24/7 safe overclock. Whats my max safe temp and max safe voltage? :cool:
 
If you need to then sure.

The stock clocks on the Ivys are pretty boring tbh. I remember my old locked Sandy Xeon becoming helpless because it would only run at around 3.4ghz. 4ghz was what I needed, sadly there was no way to get it there.

Going into the future with the new APIs you won't need it, but some of the older games really do call on the CPU to make up for the coding monstrosity they are running (the poor dears).
 
pff my 3570k wouldnt do that, would only do 4.4 @ 1.38 using offset, i got a complete dog though.

Just the fact your interested in whether you should overclock makes me think you wanna, so go for it :)
 
Do it. As long as you stay under 80c at load you'll be fine. 1.35v is the max for 24/7 use, but you won't need that unless you push for 4.5ghz. 4ghz will be easy with 1.25v and you can just test and reduce volts as needed.
 
wazza300 said:
overclocking guide for 4.5ghz

just enter own ram speed/timings/voltage or enable xmp profile 1

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyt...-th-z77x-up5-th-overclock-settings-guide.html
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Thanks for the link I'll take a gander.

In general, 4.4Ghz should be easy? And 4.5Ghz is really pushing it?

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Can I keep it simple and only increase the cpu volts and not have to touch ram timings etc?


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I think the reason why I never overclocked the cpu, is I wanted the mobo bios updates to settle down. It's been about a year now since the lst update so I can safely assume there wont be any more.
 
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What I've done is, set the vcore to 1.25 and the cpu to 44 and Ill work my way down from there untill I find the lowest vcore stable.

That sound good?

At these settings

I'm getting Max temps of:

79
88
86
81
87 - package

I guess that's too hot if Max is 80?

Is that for all cores and package?

I'll work my way done from here. Setting the cpu ratio (I think) to 44, is that accross all cores? (I hope so)
 
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Package includes the igpu I think,so just go off the four cores

You should manage 4.5ghz imo,and use dvid so it downclocks in speed/voltage at idle
 
Q.

Although CPU voltage is set to 1.25 in BIOS and CPUID shows VID Max as 1.256V CPUZ still shows core voltage as 1.380v?

Not to work. Me being silly!
 
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That's down to loadline calibration setting

If on auto it will probably boost CPU v too much,try manually setting it to medium

Try

Pcie/blck manually set to 100
CPU multi set to 45x
Vcore voltage response set to fast
Pwm phase control set to extreme performance
Loadline calibration set to medium
CPU voltage set to normal
Dvid set to +0.025v
 
wazza300 said:
That's down to loadline calibration setting

If on auto it will probably boost CPU v too much,try manually setting it to medium

Try

Pcie/blck manually set to 100
CPU multi set to 45x
Vcore voltage response set to fast
Pwm phase control set to extreme performance
Loadline calibration set to medium
CPU voltage set to normal
Dvid set to +0.025v
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Cheers for that.

If 1.35v is the max voltage, someone mentioned above 80c as the max temperature?

Also what does Max TDP mean. Mine says 77.0W
 
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