Looking for Ivy Bridge Overclock guide

[Buzzerbro]

Hey All, I am looking for a guide to overclocking my i5 3570K. Currently watercooled and I want a boost for gaming.

Thanks

[PP Mguire]

Unless you have a SLI or Crossfire setup there wont be much in gains from overclocking.

Overclocking your chip is as simple as raising the multiplier and upping the voltage for stability. If you're motherboard has an online manual with a guide I can show exactly how to do this.

[peti1212]

Really depends on the motherboard. I have an ASUS motherboard, though GIGABYTE is similar, except they do their voltage settings differently. Here is a nice little beginners guide for MSI motherboards done by NCIX:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCIWTX-jy9A

For ASUS motherboards, you can just run the OC Tuner and it should put you to about 4-4.2 GHz as a start without having to tweak voltages or anything else.

[peti1212]

Sorry for double post, but couldn't post two videos in one post.

Here is a good guide for ASUS motherboards:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4mkGQhE1o2w

The nice thing about ASUS motherboards is that you can adjust the multiplier on your CPU and then keep your VCore voltage at AUTO by just choosing the OFFSET option, and then you just offset the voltage by a few mV, like 0.005V or 0.025V

As far as GIGABYTE goes, its basically the same thing, adjust multiplier, and then voltage settings. You might want to do a search on youtube for other videos, though the ones I posted cover it fairly well. Hope this helps

[Joshua_Mahr]

Could you tell us what motherboard you have. Also your mobo might have an OC' tuner included.

[TehYoyo]

Make sure you keep a close eye on your temps - the ivy bridge chips get really hot because of the smaller amount of die that they use. Especially when you're doing something intensive like gaming, you really need to watch it - make sure to run a 24 hour torture test w/ Prime 95 (http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=205) to check stability and temps.