Overclocking an i5-3570

[Jsaddlebean]

Hi guys I was wondering if you'd be able to tell me if I can overclock an i5-3570 using a Gigabyte GA-Z77-DS3H. I know you aren't meant to be able to overclock non-k chips but I have read in places that you can. Any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks,

Josh.

 

[Jsaddlebean]

overclock via the BCLK, if your board allows it . intel quickly made Board vendors stop this with Z170 board, UNLESS they had a BCLK chip installed

Thanks for the reply!! I don't suppose you know if theres anyway to find out if that board supports doing that? I want to make sure that it will before purchasing it. Thanks!

 

[Jsaddlebean]

It will overclock your i5-3570. It will also overclock your Sata, PCIe (GPU and anything else in PCIe), RAM and probably make things unstable unless it's a very minor BCLK OC. You could damage your drives in particular. Things changed with Z170/LGA 1151 where BCLK only affected CPU and RAM and was more feasible.

Thanks for the reply! Would you guys say it would be safe to get it up to 3.8-4GHz?