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i5-3570K

Well reading thru all the posts and struggling to decide I bit the bullet and went Ivy. I regretted soon as I paid because like at least half of you have said wait for Haswell I was thinking of doing that as well.

However, the 3570K with MSI Z77 MPower are terrific especially when putting my MSI 670 on. I am currently running Battlefield 3 on Ultra settings and getting a minimum of 55 on Caspian Border and not under 60 on any of the AK maps which, was never possible before (yet to try Oman and Sharqi as they were the two maps that impacted my fps originally). But also booting, running normal tasks are so much quicker.

Only little hiccup from the setup was when putting the stock cooler on the CPU. said in the manual wait for a click when pushing the clips thru the MB. Heard the click but being use to having AMD clip on CPU coolers I was a little worried as to whether they had actually gone on securely.

Thanks again to everyone for the input.
 
Great! Enjoy your new Ivy rig, the 3570 is an awesome CPU. Bin that stock cooler though, get yourself and aftermarket cooler and overclock it, they're built for it and you wont be disappointing with the results.
 
Swagger187 said:
Only little hiccup from the setup was when putting the stock cooler on the CPU. said in the manual wait for a click when pushing the clips thru the MB. Heard the click but being use to having AMD clip on CPU coolers I was a little worried as to whether they had actually gone on securely.

Thanks again to everyone for the input.
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... did you say "stock cooler"? please tell me it isn't so..
 
Wucked said:
Great! Enjoy your new Ivy rig, the 3570 is an awesome CPU. Bin that stock cooler though, get yourself and aftermarket cooler and overclock it, they're built for it and you wont be disappointing with the results.
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Ceryndrion said:
... did you say "stock cooler"? please tell me it isn't so..
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What aftermarket cooler do you guys recommend?

I do quite like the look of the stock cooler tho and on my mobo looks quite neat :)
 
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Swagger187 said:
What aftermarket cooler do you guys recommend?

I do quite like the look of the stock cooler tho and on my mobo looks quite neat :)
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It has the looks, but not the performance.

If you plan to keep it at stock the stock cooler can handle it no problem. However, even a slight overclock then a aftermarket would be the best route to go :)
 
Smoogels said:
It has the looks, but not the performance.

If you plan to keep it at stock the stock cooler can handle it no problem. However, even a slight overclock then a aftermarket would be the best route to go :)
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Well in all honestly i do plan on keeping it at stock so I will stick with the stock cooler for now. If I ever look into overclocking in the future I will probably look into the Cooler Master Hyper 612S. Any good?
 
illuz said:
Go with the Alpenföhn K2! Well worth the money, quiet and very cool. Looks awesome too.
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Looks huge. How many RAM slots would that cover up?

Ceryndrion said:
keeping a 3570K at stock, is a crime against silicon
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I am not a hardcore gamer i get 55 to 60 FPS on Battlefield 3 high settings currently and I am more than happy with that. However, I would like cooler temps.
 
I hit 60'c after about 3 hours solid gaming @ 4.5Ghz with the k2. It's huge but it's sexy and worth it, extremely quiet I think even at full whack. At idle you can't hear my computer, it's lovely. I have low profile RAM and it doesn't block any slots. What RAM do you have?

Btw nvidia cards love an overclocked processor. ;)
 
illuz said:
I hit 60'c after about 3 hours solid gaming @ 4.5Ghz with the k2. It's huge but it's sexy and worth it, extremely quiet I think even at full whack. At idle you can't hear my computer, it's lovely. I have low profile RAM and it doesn't block any slots. What RAM do you have?

Btw nvidia cards love an overclocked processor. ;)
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I have Corsair Vengeance High Profile so basically I am screwed as I assume it will not ft under any cooler which takes up more than one RAM slot.
 
Have a search around, you may be in luck. Also can you not just take the heat sink off? They're not needed for RAM anyway.
 
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