- May 1, 2013
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Hi,
About half a year ago I made myself a new system. To prepare for the upcoming games I wanted to see how far my CPU and GPU would overclock. That is to say I wanted to see what I could achieve and then simply undo what I did just to make sure it wil run at those speeds should I need it in the future.
As for the CPU : I overclocked my 3570K to 4.5 Ghz on 1.08V. It runs stable 24/7 running aida64. As far as I know aida64 is great for cpu stressing. Personally i just checked every box so heat from the gpu would also get to the cpu to see a worst case scenario. With everything maxed running it for ages the max temp was 61C with a Scythe Mugen 3 cooler running at 1000RPM (Max RPM is 1600). Running of of this it runs any games and applications just fine.
This seemed like quite a solid result so I am happy with that and maybe somebody could give me advice on how to get further?
Now for the GPU. This is a bit more troublesome then I would have liked. I have a MSI 7950 Twinfrozr and at stock speeds it wil run at 73C with 65% fan speed with a 17C ambient. It's really loud and anoying really. I thought this wasen't right so i tried to RMA it but they said it would be fine up to 110C hmph 110C my ass runs on 110C *sorry*.
When i overclock it to 1Ghz the core reaches 83C at 80% fan speed. This sounds like a hurricane in my room. And that is with the case open... After i tried to raise the voltage to 1.05 volts when I launched a light game which uses 30% of the GPU's power. It shot up to 95C and BSOD'd me almost immediatly. Maybe it's the thermal paste?
About half a year ago I made myself a new system. To prepare for the upcoming games I wanted to see how far my CPU and GPU would overclock. That is to say I wanted to see what I could achieve and then simply undo what I did just to make sure it wil run at those speeds should I need it in the future.
As for the CPU : I overclocked my 3570K to 4.5 Ghz on 1.08V. It runs stable 24/7 running aida64. As far as I know aida64 is great for cpu stressing. Personally i just checked every box so heat from the gpu would also get to the cpu to see a worst case scenario. With everything maxed running it for ages the max temp was 61C with a Scythe Mugen 3 cooler running at 1000RPM (Max RPM is 1600). Running of of this it runs any games and applications just fine.
This seemed like quite a solid result so I am happy with that and maybe somebody could give me advice on how to get further?
Now for the GPU. This is a bit more troublesome then I would have liked. I have a MSI 7950 Twinfrozr and at stock speeds it wil run at 73C with 65% fan speed with a 17C ambient. It's really loud and anoying really. I thought this wasen't right so i tried to RMA it but they said it would be fine up to 110C hmph 110C my ass runs on 110C *sorry*.
When i overclock it to 1Ghz the core reaches 83C at 80% fan speed. This sounds like a hurricane in my room. And that is with the case open... After i tried to raise the voltage to 1.05 volts when I launched a light game which uses 30% of the GPU's power. It shot up to 95C and BSOD'd me almost immediatly. Maybe it's the thermal paste?
. People have reported signifigantly lower load temps after reapplying the thermal paste.
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