Turbo boost oc

Macky · 12 Apr 2013 at 03:31

Hey there. Wondering if anyone could help me overclock my i5 3570k on a gigabyte D3H Z77 using the turbo boost mode like this guy does: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxCPyF-1tTc

When I do that it seems to use the standard 3.8GHZ turbo. I'm trying for a 4.2 using the turbo method but it doesn't seem to do anything. I realize he has the Z77X but does this make a difference?

BluD · 12 Apr 2013 at 07:00

In advanced frequency tab, try setting the 4 turbo ratios from auto to 42.

Macky · 12 Apr 2013 at 15:39

Seems I can't go over 4GHZ by just changing the multi to 42 either. CPUZ and coretemp report it as 4.00GHZ. Strange.

Darg · 12 Apr 2013 at 16:38

I've got an identical setup macky, I'll try and remember to reply with my settings. I've only had it a few days so haven't gotten a decent overclock yet. Atm I'll be happy to just get 4.2 stable.

What I learnt first though is to let the BIOS handle the voltage, I tried just manually setting a lot of things including the voltage to 1.30 which just meant it got very hot and quite unstable. Prime95 stable but not game stable.

I reset it to defaults and just gamed on that but last night I used pretty much default settings and just changed the CPU multiplier to 42 and turned on XPM for the RAM. Now it's Intel Burn Test (should be a better test than prime95) stable, yet to test it in game though.