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5/2/12 at 11:27pm
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lol 70C at 3.9ghz lol. that really is not so good.

When I took the heatsink off, the paste was already hard and cakey. I think I cooked it/dried it out by it not making contact with the CPU cooler properly.
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5/3/12 at 8:15am
My 3570K runs a little hotter than what was listed in this post and im on water cooling. Ambient temps are around 29-30C tho. Also I needed alittle more voltage to attain these speeds just as recommended. I ran into a weird issue where if there wasnt enough voltage it would freeze on the bios screen or freeze once in windows. Sometimes I had to restart all over again and clear cmos because I couldnt get into the bios. After alittle playing around I think 4.6 is where I will stay for awhile.
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5/3/12 at 3:38pm
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My 3570K runs a little hotter than what was listed in this post and im on water cooling. Ambient temps are around 29-30C tho. Also I needed alittle more voltage to attain these speeds just as recommended. I ran into a weird issue where if there wasnt enough voltage it would freeze on the bios screen or freeze once in windows. Sometimes I had to restart all over again and clear cmos because I couldnt get into the bios. After alittle playing around I think 4.6 is where I will stay for awhile.

Yea, I had one BIOS screen freeze so far, but I was able to power down for about 30 seconds, turn it on, get into BIOS, click up the voltage 2-3 times save and exit real fast and solve the issue.

I'm currently @ 4.6, 1.275 volts, LLC @ turbo (will set to extreme shortly), temps aren't going above 70C in Prime95... Gonna jump LLC to extreme and try 4.7 tomorrow morning when I get home. smile.gif
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5/3/12 at 5:55pm
Thx for the great guide, i m a newbie on ocing and trying to study a bit before trying to do so.

just ran p95 v276 on my i3570k with Asrock pro 4. and Cooler Master Gemin II, temp stabled at around 70C without OCing as shown below. is that temperature normal? Seems you guys running a like 55x-60C at stock...i start to think i didn't apply the cooler properly lol 375
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5/3/12 at 6:17pm
what would people on here choose for overclocking an Ivy between an Asus Z77 Gene-Z V and a Gigabyte Z77 UD5 please ?

I was thinking the former (the Asus) would potentially yield better overclocks, especially inconjunction with decent RAM (Samsung VLP in my case) - but on reading on here perhaps I should go for the UD5 for not much more money ? Its in a 550d case so size is not an issue

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5/3/12 at 7:00pm
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In my opinion either will do the job.

The GB boards this round do not lack in benching ability. As you can see you can pull off 3GHz memory, like here: http://www.overclock.net/t/1232448/me-ivy-bridge-can-do-3000mhz-memory-4dimms-16gb-world-record. The issue however is not the memory or the motherboard, it is in fact the CPU. I had a friend test out CPUs, he works for one of these huge sites, and he gets trays of CPUs to mess with. He said he said out of the 10 retails he tried, only 1 of them could do over 2666mhz, the others upto 2666.

IDK how far you want to take that memory, the truth is that memory might do 2933 in the hands of a really good guy, but he has a CPU that can do it, as well as memory that can do it, a lot of people have that memory and don't have good luck with it, they get stuck at around 2400mhz.

These board's aren't so limited by the board or BIOS, rather the CPU, just like with SB.

Certain memory might OC better on certain boards, but also you gotta work with the timings, some boards are set at stock to do higher frequency, others are set to do better efficiency. Just pick the one you like!
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5/3/12 at 7:03pm
Sin -- thanks very much indeed - I'll have a think overnight

to be honest theres still an outisde chance - I'll just go 2011 instead as its no more expensive (3820 + Gene IV or Asus Pro) - but perhaps thats crazy. Seems similar performance to the Ivys with lower temps (but higher power usage)
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5/3/12 at 7:10pm
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yea either choice you go with is fine.

IMO Sbe still has more processing power and better for multi-GPU, but if you are doing a quad core, then I see no reason not to pick the IB system.
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5/3/12 at 9:38pm
Hm, running into a strange issue with my 3770K. Right now stable at 1.35v for 4.85 GHz but if I try and bump it up to 4.9 GHz or more, Win 7 will boot up but fails to display the login screen no matter how much more voltage I give the CPU. Temps are pretty decent at these settings, low 60's in Prime95. Seems like the Windows 7 login screen is creating a wall for my CPU at the moment for some reason. System in sig, any thoughts?
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5/4/12 at 1:33am
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Thx for the great guide, i m a newbie on ocing and trying to study a bit before trying to do so.
just ran p95 v276 on my i3570k with Asrock pro 4. and Cooler Master Gemin II, temp stabled at around 70C without OCing as shown below. is that temperature normal? Seems you guys running a like 55x-60C at stock...i start to think i didn't apply the cooler properly lol

seems hot to me, check the hsf, seems maybe +10C, which is probably too small a gap for a push pin issue, but worth looking at.
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