Cpu overclock

[fishrule]

I will be joing the Ivy Bridge club soon myself. Retiring my five year old Q6600 for an i7 3770k, GTX 680, and 32 gigs of RAM. Also getting a MSATA SSD for caching.

[King_Jay16]

I will be joing the Ivy Bridge club soon myself. Retiring my five year old Q6600 for an i7 3770k, GTX 680, and 32 gigs of RAM. Also getting a MSATA SSD for caching.

Nice, If you plan on really overclocking that i7 3770K make sure you have a good cooler, was going to get the 3770K but chose not to, HT wasn't worth the extra $100 for me.

[fishrule]

I have a Corsair H80. I know Ivy Bridge tends to get hot, but my overclocking style revolves around finding the clockspeed to volts ratio. I find when overclocking its usually the last 100 or 200 mhz that really starts to push your voltages through the roof. I've been researching how Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge CPUs behave, and I am hoping to hit between 4.3 to 4.5 ghz at 1.1 volts.

[King_Jay16]

I have a Corsair H80. I know Ivy Bridge tends to get hot, but my overclocking style revolves around finding the clockspeed to volts ratio. I find when overclocking its usually the last 100 or 200 mhz that really starts to push your voltages through the roof. I've been researching how Ivy Bridge and Sandy Bridge CPUs behave, and I am hoping to hit between 4.3 to 4.5 ghz at 1.1 volts.

I hit 4.4 @ 1.165v (stock volts) so you gona need around that to get that range with HT on.


Here is a guide

http://www.overclock.net/t/1247413/i...ide-at-the-end

These two threads may provide you with some more info

http://www.overclock.net/t/1247869/i...nc-spreadsheet

http://www.overclock.net/t/1250090/o...-owners-thread

[King_Jay16]

Testing 4.6GHZ @ 1.298v

Ditched the 3570k and upped it to the 3770K






Overclocking results on Tuesday

[fishrule]

So I see you ended up going 3770k as well. Hyperthreading is wicked man, I never give it up.

[King_Jay16]

So I see you ended up going 3770k as well. Hyperthreading is wicked man, I never give it up.

Yup don't plan on upgrading anytime soon so decided hey what the heck... plus i had some extra $$ on hand, so just returned the 3570K and paid the difference...

[Desolator4U]

What's with all this new hardware? Someone needs to rep the back in the day stuff, so...


Got no pics of the more strenuous tests I did, but hours of constant BF3 and The Witcher 2 maxed out should suffice.
Intel's first set of Quads are known to run hot, and those temps (and clock speed) will improve when my Tower gets better air flow.

~Des

[King_Jay16]

What's with all this new hardware? Someone needs to rep the back in the day stuff, so...


Got no pics of the more strenuous tests I did, but hours of constant BF3 and The Witcher 2 maxed out should suffice.
Intel's first set of Quads are known to run hot, and those temps (and clock speed) will improve when my Tower gets better air flow.

~Des

Reminds me of my old Phenom 9950


We need a thread for benchmarks or something

[King_Jay16]

4.5GHZ IBT stable so far testing 4.6 now