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Should I update my CPU or Overclock the one I got

RussD

RussD

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My CPU is--
Intel Core i5 3570K @ 3.40GHz 30 °C
Ivy Bridge 22nm Technology

Motherboard-- Gigabyte Technology Co. Ltd. Z77X-D3H (Intel Core i5-3570K CPU @ 3.40GHz)

Can not Build or buy new at moment. If you say not worth it n wait, I shall wait.
Thanks
 
I would try undervolting and overclocking the CPU before upgrading that might get you a bit more performance. I guess it depends what you use it for. I don't think there is much in the way of meaningful upgrades you can make without replacing the motherboard and at that point you are near to buying a new system.
 
Thank You simc1978...I will google on how to undervolt and overclock the i5. As I not got a clue on how to do that.
 
@RussD - you'll want "Advanced Frequency Settings" under the M.I.T page of the BIOS. From there go to "Advanced CPU Core Features". That'll give you a page that looks like this:

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From there you can alter the CPU Clock Ratio to get higher speeds. I'd be tempted to turn Turbo Boost technology off and set a Clock Ratio of 42 initially. That'll give you 4.2GHz, which ought to be achievable at stock volts if I remember the Ivy Bridge era right :)
 
Definitely overclock it, can probably get around 4.5ghz from it but any more than that needs a lot of voltage typically. There's not really much of an upgrade path on that socket, best you can get is a 3770k I think which won't be worth the money.
 
What do you use it for ? as 4 cores maybe a bottleneck if you play modern games ?
You could try and find i7 for that socket or grab a cheap 2600 ryzen on ebay with a 450 board
 
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welshrat---I NEVER play games unless its in bed with girlfriend LOL..Photography, photography and Photography with some Downloading of stuff. Plus the odd AV for Club presentations.
JRS---Sorry for my Dimness, Where do I put that 42 clock ratio?? Would that be in the CPU Clock Ratio/CPU Frequency?
 
RussD said:
welshrat---I NEVER play games unless its in bed with girlfriend LOL..Photography, photography and Photography with some Downloading of stuff. Plus the odd AV for Club presentations.
JRS---Sorry for my Dimness, Where do I put that 42 clock ratio?? Would that be in the CPU Clock Ratio/CPU Frequency?
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Ha Ha fair enough. In which case I would maybe try and find an i7 for those extra threads and you should be golden :-)
 
simc1978 said:
I would try undervolting and overclocking the CPU before upgrading that might get you a bit more performance. I guess it depends what you use it for. I don't think there is much in the way of meaningful upgrades you can make without replacing the motherboard and at that point you are near to buying a new system.
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Undervolting? Not going to get far with a overclock doing that.
 
simc1978 said:
Depends on your cooling, if you are thermal throttling running cooler is going to make you faster
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Really? So I buy a CPU. Undervolt it and it goes faster? must have been doing it wrong for 20+ years.

If OP wants to overclock he/she needs to up the volts and up the multi (along with other bits, depending how high he/she goes) the see how it goes.

You don't undervolt then overclock.
 
koooowweeee said:
Really? So I buy a CPU. Undervolt it and it goes faster? must have been doing it wrong for 20+ years.
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To be (somewhat) fair, undervolting has become an overclocking 'thing' with boost clocks and particularly with Ryzen and the PBO curve optimiser. But for an Ivy Bridge era Intel chip...

koooowweeee said:
If OP wants to overclock he/she needs to up the volts and up the multi (along with other bits, depending how high he/she goes) the see how it goes.
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...you're right. Though I'd see how high it went on stock volts first myself.
 
JRS said:
To be (somewhat) fair, undervolting has become an overclocking 'thing' with boost clocks and particularly with Ryzen and the PBO curve optimiser. But for an Ivy Bridge era Intel chip...



...you're right. Though I'd see how high it went on stock volts first myself.
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Yeah but that's because with Ryzen volts are high at stock. But you don't just automatically lower the volts. with intel and OPs CPU you definitely get bad results doing that.

Seems to be the thing with AMD GPUs too.
 
koooowweeee said:
Yeah I would. I would stick 1.45 no worries. If not a tad more.

I ran my 2600k at 1.4 24/7 for well over a year. Didn't have issues but it was on water
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I wouldn't advise putting 1.45v into a 3570k. Your 2600K is Sandybridge which is 32nm plus was soldered. The OP has Ivybridge which is 22nm and wasn't soldered using paste instead. Consequently it couldn't overclock as well or take as high voltages.

I would recommend going to 1.35v max but just as importantly making sure temps are under control - preferably a max in the low 80's.
 
Those ivy bridge CPUs didn't overclock as well as the sandy bridge before, I reckon they were just generally worse despite being a generation up.

You could certainly try overclocking it a bit, I'd probably be thinking about getting a new CPU motherboard ram.
 
BUDFORCE said:
Those ivy bridge CPUs didn't overclock as well as the sandy bridge before, I reckon they were just generally worse despite being a generation up.

You could certainly try overclocking it a bit, I'd probably be thinking about getting a new CPU motherboard ram.
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I'm not sure about your experience, but I was able to get +50% frequency with not too much fuss. Going lower than that for 24/7 operation but it was stable at 4.8
 
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