Overclocking i5 3570K Details.

skele · Apr 11, 2013

http://www.flickr.com/photos/90999165@N05/8641973738/in/photostream/lightbox/

As picture shown above, check my Voltages and the rest as well. 4.2GHz, did Prime95 for an hour, seem stable.

I got the overclocking information from this> http://www.overclock.net/t/1198504/complete-overclocking-guide-sandy-bridge-ivy-bridge-asrock-edition

I wanted to know if any of the settings are okay. If not, then let me know what to modify.
And the 48C was under load from some programs that I was installing at the time.

DarkSable · Apr 11, 2013

Looks pretty good to me - though you could likely lower your vcore some, it doesn't matter much.

That being said, you're overclocking using your BIOS and the program you have a screenshot of is only to monitor the system, right? You shouldn't be overclocking using software.

skele · Apr 11, 2013

DarkSable :

I definitely used BIOS for overclocking as I did with AMD, I switched to Intel and I only have little knowledge with Intel

I used Prime95 it only hit 77C the highest for 40mins. I hope that's normal. I am using Hyper 212+ with MX-2 Thermal.

DarkSable · Apr 11, 2013

Since you used the BIOS, you're fine, and hitting 77 while at full load is just fine.

Looks like you're golden, my friend!

skele · Apr 12, 2013

DarkSable :

I had to put it down to 4.0

I wasn't paying attention but 5 mins later after I checked it was at 80C at 4.2 so Where do I find error since it crashed?
And is 4.0 Plenty without bottlenecking any GPU?

DarkSable · Apr 12, 2013

skele :

Did it actually crash?

As for bottlenecking, you wouldn't have a bottleneck even if you were running at stock settings, so you don't need to worry about it.

skele · Apr 12, 2013

DarkSable :

Yeah it actually crashed. Not sure what happened. I checked for Hardware Error event and don't see anything. So I guess just to be safe, 4.0 should be alright. if it crashed then I'm going back to stock setting hopefully on a CPU intensive gaming like ARMA 3, Battlefield 3 64 players server without any issue?

DarkSable · Apr 12, 2013

4.0 should be just fine. What was it you were doing when the crash happened?

(And yeah, you'll be able to handle battlefield 3 just fine - same for arma when it gets out of alpha.)

skele · Apr 12, 2013

DarkSable :

Prime95 large FTT something. it was running for almost an hour and 5 mins after I checked the temp it was at 80C, nothing to worry about then after I got done playing Xbox, I noticed my PC restarted.

skele · Apr 12, 2013

The thing is it didn't crash last night for an hour at 4.2 and today recently, it crashed... *pondering*

DarkSable · Apr 12, 2013

Hmm. It could have been unrelated, then.

Consider running memtest to check for stability.

skele · Apr 12, 2013

Did that, seems fine.

skele · Apr 12, 2013

If you said it can run at stock clock without any hiccups then it's not a big deal about overclocking right? lol

DarkSable · Apr 12, 2013

Yep. But overclocking is fun.

skele · Apr 12, 2013

DarkSable :

Yeah but not stable for some reason... I don't have good knowledge on VCore for Intel, I know that the higher the bad. :pfff:

DarkSable · Apr 12, 2013

skele :

Well... higher vcore on anything is bad. For ivy bridge, you want to shy away from hitting 1.3v - I usually keep my max around 1.25.

skele · Apr 12, 2013

DarkSable :

From what I seen in your signature, how do you manage a stable 4.4GHz clock at 1.18V? Give me a list on your setting, I'll try to copy it and see how it goes for me. What's your max temp @ 4.4GHz?

DarkSable · Apr 12, 2013

My temperatures at that clock, using Prime 95 with large FFTs, I have two cores sitting at 71 degrees and two cores sitting at 77 degrees, maximum. However, that's with a 140mm updraft cooler in a small form factor case, which will soon (hopefully) be replaced by a liquid cooling setup.

As for my settings, bear in mind that I have a bloody amazing chip, which on a motherboard with more VRMs would possibly be able to hit 5GHz on water, and that you'll likely need to be pushing more vcore than I am. I've got a multiplier of 44, obviously, with default bus speed. I've got all power saving and turbo options off, as power is free for me and I'd rather have a stable overclock than a turbo overclock. Other than that, I've got a vcore at 1.182v, and I'd have to check, but that's about it.

RobCrezz · Apr 12, 2013

Its worth remembering that not all CPUs are equal, and one might overclock to 4.4 at 1.18v but another might need 1.28v to be stable at the same clock speed.

syvmn · Apr 12, 2013

Like RobCrezz said chips are different. Mine is 4.4ghz @ 1.09v stable, 65C max temp.

I wouldn't just copy the settings someone else is using. Its all trial and error with your specific chip. I know that if I bump it up to 4.5ghz I crash after 10-20 minutes without even doing any stress testing. I have no idea why.

DarkSable · Apr 12, 2013

So now that all three of us have established and stated the same fact...

Also, syvmn, you have 4.4GHz at 1.09v? I'm thinking that's got to be a typo.

skele · Apr 12, 2013

DarkSable :

I dont see any turbo setting on my i5 3570K with ASRock Extreme4 Verison 2.80.. Where can I find that?

DarkSable · Apr 12, 2013

skele :

It's called offset mode, I think.

syvmn · Apr 12, 2013

Unless I am reading things wrong ?

DarkSable · Apr 12, 2013

syvmn :

I'm... huh. Ok, I'm impressed.

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