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Good 3570k overclock?

Jarrod

Jarrod

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Got my 3570k up to 5Ghz using 1.28v - Max temp while p95 86 (High, but I'm only using a cheap air cooler).

I'm pretty happy with this overclock, but I wanted to check here first, any ways to higher the overclock without directly touching the vcore? I want to keep it below 1.3 as I heard that is stepping into dangerous territory

p95 stable (10 min run only mind, I stopped it because I wanted to try 5.1 because I'm impatient :p)

Cheers
 
Sounds like a pretty ok chip, though tbh youll only need 5ghz for benching. I find 4.5ghz to be plenty for day to day use and games.
 
That sounds like a nice clocking chip you've got there, my 3770k needs 1.23V load for 4.5 GHz and my 3570k needed 1.26V for 4.5. Most 3570k's need closer to 1.4V for 5 GHz, thus few people go past around 4.7 GHz or so.
 
To be fair that is how some people roll, doing stress testing for hours on end before bumping the clock another say 100mhz and repeating can be quite soul destroying if you have a new chip and want to get an idea of the capabilities on a moderate voltage and then take a more measured approach when you hit issues.

I settled for 4.5ghz on mine, it seems to go downhill rapidly from there in terms of stability/voltage required/temps/hassle of needing to keep tweaking. I dare say I could get a bit more out of it if I put the effort in but rather enjoy using it than invest hours/days to eek out another 50-150mhz.
 
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Ive had mine prime/ibt stable on a given clockspeed, fire up a game and it will crash pretty quickly. Check event viewer and find cpu parity id 19 whea errors, up the voltage a tad and it then ran fine.
 
Jarrod said:
Got my 3570k up to 5Ghz using 1.28v - Max temp while p95 86 (High, but I'm only using a cheap air cooler).

I'm pretty happy with this overclock, but I wanted to check here first, any ways to higher the overclock without directly touching the vcore? I want to keep it below 1.3 as I heard that is stepping into dangerous territory

p95 stable (10 min run only mind, I stopped it because I wanted to try 5.1 because I'm impatient :p)

Cheers
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On the face of it - seems a very good chip. Even if it proves unstable on longer test, it would appear from the voltage that you may have plenty of headroom. You will need better cooling though - stick it under water.

Mark
 
Looks lik youve got a top chip there fella, i can only dream of 5ghz on mine, i think ide need bout 1.6v :) I hope ya have a kick ass GPU to go nicely with it.
 
Who cares about prime stable!!! Is your primary use for your PC prime?? Just use your pc as you would normally and adjust from that.

Looks a good chip to me!!! How is the IMC???
 
Been playing with it a bit more, unfortunately my cooler is holding me back (artic cooling freezer pro rev 2) from going further than 5Ghz, so I decided to look for a long term overclock setting, and I'm very happy to say, that I'm currently @ 4.6Ghz with 1.17v with prime95 stable (only ran for 15mins). As I write this I am testing 1.16v, I'm extremely happy with this chip seems I got lucky in the silicon lottery :)


Also, 8 Pack, what is IMC lol

EDIT: Fully stable @ 4.6Ghz @ 1.155v - Pretty happy with that, next thing to get is a nice CPU cooler, H100i I'm thinking ,be a huge upgrade from Artic Cooling Pro Rev 2 - But will have to wait a few months for that as I'm saving pennies :p
 
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Yeah thats a really nice chip, cant wait to see what results ya get with a water cooler on it. For your long term overclocking settings i would use an offset voltage with turbo, so it drops the voltage and cpu speed when ya not using much power.

I do the same thing, i use 4.4 ghz with a +.070 offset for every day use, then if i wanna play summat thats really intensive graphics i switch to my 4.6ghz profile which has higher mem speed tighter timings and a fixed cpu voltage. Same with my GPU i use 1200/1650 for every day use and 1300/1900 for intensive stuff. Hopefully it will stop my chips degrading too fast :)
 
Yea I'm looking forward to getting a liquid cooler. I don't want to push my luck with this chip as with my last 2500k I degraded it to dust and it stopped running at stock speeds regardless of voltage, hence the need to upgrade.

Also, I have two options with this chip for 24/7 use: 4.6Ghz @ 1.155v or 4.8Ghz @ 1.2v

I think both are well within safe voltage range and wont degrade my chip... decisions decisions

Here's a 3DMark11 P score I just ran :d http://www.3dmark.com/3dm11/6624037
 
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8 Pack said:
Who cares about prime stable!!! Is your primary use for your PC prime?? Just use your pc as you would normally and adjust from that.

Looks a good chip to me!!! How is the IMC???
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would it not be better to have a stable oc . 15 mins in your hands maybe enough but for most it is hardly enough .

also many games are funny (being a gaming cpu) games like bf especially pick any holes in cpu oc. haha you want to see if your cpu oc is perfectly stable go play bfbc2 :D
 
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