Hey, I got my 3570k a month ago and when I tried to overclock it I couldn't get boot past the start screen past a certain point. I decided to take a friend's advice and auto overclock it in the BIOS until i had more time to overclock manually. I now have the time.
The auto overclock is at 4.2ghz with voltage at roughly 1.26. My max temp after a 12-hour run of prime95 was 79 F. My main goal is either lowering the voltage and therefore the heat output or increasing the speed without increasing the voltage much. I forget the name of the setting, but it's set so that the CPU doesn't run at full speed all the time. someone on another site told me that setting it to run at 4.2 ghz all the time would be bad for the health of the chip. That wasn't true for my old amd CPU, but then again this is a completely different chip.
Does anyone have any tips or ideas to help getting a better/more efficient overclock? 4.2, while not the maximum i intially wanted, will suit me fine for my gaming/slight video and audio editing. If i could keep the voltage where it's at and get it to 4.4 or 4.5, that would be fantastic--but anything less and then my goal is to simply try and see what the minimum voltage i can get is at 4.2.
The rest of my rig is in my signature. My thermal paste, if anyone wants to know, is Arctic Silver 5, well after the 200-hour break in period. This thing's been running 8 hours a day for a month.
Ambient room temperature usually fluctuates between 72 F - 80 F but will be kept at 72F while stress testing and overclocking.
Edited by ParadoxEternal - 8/6/12 at 12:56am
The auto overclock is at 4.2ghz with voltage at roughly 1.26. My max temp after a 12-hour run of prime95 was 79 F. My main goal is either lowering the voltage and therefore the heat output or increasing the speed without increasing the voltage much. I forget the name of the setting, but it's set so that the CPU doesn't run at full speed all the time. someone on another site told me that setting it to run at 4.2 ghz all the time would be bad for the health of the chip. That wasn't true for my old amd CPU, but then again this is a completely different chip.
Does anyone have any tips or ideas to help getting a better/more efficient overclock? 4.2, while not the maximum i intially wanted, will suit me fine for my gaming/slight video and audio editing. If i could keep the voltage where it's at and get it to 4.4 or 4.5, that would be fantastic--but anything less and then my goal is to simply try and see what the minimum voltage i can get is at 4.2.
The rest of my rig is in my signature. My thermal paste, if anyone wants to know, is Arctic Silver 5, well after the 200-hour break in period. This thing's been running 8 hours a day for a month.
Ambient room temperature usually fluctuates between 72 F - 80 F but will be kept at 72F while stress testing and overclocking.
Edited by ParadoxEternal - 8/6/12 at 12:56am
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