Quick 3570k overclock question

AssaTM

AssaTM

AssaTM

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Hey all, I currently have a 3570k and a Phantek ph-tc14pe cooler and on the default volts of 1.1v with a 4.2ghz overclock my temps reach around 58 degrees max, which seems good and fine, but when I try to approach around 1.15 or 1.6 with 4.5ghz the temps hit around 65/67degrees which seems a bit hot for this voltage? as i've seen people say they recommend using 1.2v and on that I get between 70/75 degrees on a Small FFT test with Prime 95, I know my cooler is more than up to the job but I was wondering do I just have an average chip, or is my cooler underperforming for whatever reason? thank you for the help :)
 
Why do you want to use Prime? does your PC boot under the settings you set? does it run fine, and nothing crashes while you use it daily? If yes then, why subject it to outlandish never experienced testing in a real world environment?. All Prime does is stress the CPU to a 100% load. Do you know for certain your going to be running so many programs at one single time to have the CPU working at 100%? Probably not! therefore forcing it to do so under a stress test is rather pointless, all it proves is that it may or may not be able to, at the current state.

My 3570K is Overclocked at 4.65GHz It's been like this for a couple of weeks now, and everything I run, runs Mercury Quick! no crashes, no overheats, or anything like that, So I see no need to Thrash it with Prime to see if it will or will not Pass, as far as I'm concerned It's stable until such a time I get any Blue Screen or anything else error wise. Operating voltage at this clock is 1.240v operating temp at this clock is 34c
 
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While I agree with you and have often thought the same thing, I will occasionally dabble with video rendering and that will tax the CPU pretty hard, wether or not it'l be prime hard I dont know, but I know that if I am just to use it for gaming then the temps will be fine, but there always seems a stigma against people that dont pass prime even though their CPU will never be taxed that hard, and I agree it's silly but I just wanted to get a ballpark for how good/average my chip is really :)
 
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