Overclocking Intel i5

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Hey guys. Ok so last night I asked how much I could overclock the AMD FX-6200 if I had Corsair H70 Watercooling, since then I've been looking YouTube and the likes and people are saying that Intel i5's are better. So my question to everyone here is: which is the best i5 for the money, and what would I be able to OC it to? Thanks :)
 
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The only i5 that you can overclock, sadly, is the i5-3570k. It will easily overclock to 4.4GHz or so... and keep in mind that each core is significantly faster than a comparable AMD core, so it'll happily thrash a 8350 at 5GHz in single or double threaded games.
 
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What about the 2500k?
 
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Usually 4.2GhZ is easy - 4.4-4.5 is doable. Anything past that will increase temps in a hurry. Remember that the i5 is clock for clock more efficient than AMD or even previous Intel offerings.
-Bruce
Edit - I type slow - ^ What DarkSable said;-)
 
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Ok, thanks
 
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Ok cheers :)
 
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Any i5 without "k" can be overclocked by 400mhz over turbo clock on p67, z68, z77 motherboard.

ex: i5 3470
stock turbo 4 core clock: 3.4 Ghz
oc 4 core clock: 3.8 Ghz
with base clock still at 100 Mhz.
 
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Fixed it for you. Other than that, you're correct, but there's really not that much point in doing so for so little benefit when a "k" unlocked processor will get you a GHz or more without relying on an unreliable turbo boost.

 
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As strange as it seems a "3.2 ghz" i5 3470 runs at stock, 4 cores workload, on a 3.4Ghz turbo clock , unless the tdp is reached.
The max available multiplier ratio for 4 core is then 38.

i5 3470 review
 
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It's got a max turbo of 3.6 GHz up from 3.2 stock speeds - overclock that turbo by 400 MHz, and you get 4.0 GHz.

 
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