Non-K Ivy Bridge Overclocking?

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SlitWeaver

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I have an ASRock Extreme4 motherboard and was looking through the BIOS at all the functionality I have when I came across a setting called something like "Non-K OC" which says it will "take steps" to overclock my non-K CPU. After enabling the setting and then checking CPU-Z, my clock jumps around from 3700MHz-3900MHz. Does that mean my CPU has been overclocked? :D Sorry if I am ignorant in the subject, I have not been able to mess with overclocking much since I do not have an i5-3570K yet :(

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Refer to this link for more info: http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=87608

Basically it's not recommended to mess with the clockspeeds of non k series CPUs as it overclocks more than just...
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Refer to this link for more info: http://techreport.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=87608

Basically it's not recommended to mess with the clockspeeds of non k series CPUs as it overclocks more than just the CPU core itself. That's what I understand. It's probably an increase of a few 100MHz but it doesn't seem very stable as the clockspeed seems to be jumping around all the time. I think it's probably best not to mess with the clocks of a non-k series CPU, there's a good chance you'll void the warranty and you won't get much performance out of it anyway.
 
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Yes i would recommend disabling it. Auto overclocking is rarely stable anyway.

Turbo core is something different, it overclocks cores to max 3.5ghz if there's enough heat and power headroom. This is an automatic process and doesn't invlolve any user settings.
 
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Done!

Yeah, I disabled the "No-K OC" in the BIOS and now my clock jumps from 3300MHz-3500MHz instead of 3700MHz-3900MHz.
 
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I would reset that overclock setting to default yes. The turbo is an automatic overclocking feature built into your CPU, it overclocks the CPU for some extra performance automatically and doesn't void the warranty.

*Haha, silly Tom'sHardware, I'm lagging and I can't keep up with the answers.
 
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All is good then :).
 
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