Core i5 3570k overclock issue

[steve3194]

Hi hopefully someone can give me a hand with this. I tried overclocking for the first time yesterday on my core i5 3570k after doing some research. I seem to have gotten my PC stable with 1.260v manual then adjusting to offset -0.10. I'm getting around 1.256 at load and 1.000 at idle does this sound OK for 4.3ghz?
LLC is on very high

The first thing I noticed is my computer seems to take an extra second or two to beep when posting since I've started messing with the voltages. Is this something to be concerned about? Its not slow but I just notice a slight delay.

The other problem I'm having is since the overclock I am now consistently getting an error in event viewer Microsoft-Windows-Setup" stopped due to the following error: 0xC000000D

I haven't noticed any issues related to this but I don't know why I'm getting it seems to be just after boot. I've googled it but haven't been able to find a definitive solution

It may be worth noting that I got a few bluescreens while trying to get the PC stable. Haven't had them since though.

Any help greatly appreciated cheers ☺

 

[burdenbound]

What CPU cooler are you using? You can probably over clock to 4.2 without needing to touch voltages, if your going to stop at 4.3 might as well back it down a hair and leave voltages stock (IMO).

 

[Alex Kelly]

The slight delay is caused by the PC setting up your OC settings. Don't worry!
It's also completely normal to get BSODs when finding your stable settings, that's how you tell if you're stable or not.
I wouldn't worry about the error in event viewer, I get a few of those on startup and it hasn't caused any issues.
Download Intel Burn Test, and run it alongside HWmonitor, and tell me what your temps go up to. This will indicate if you're running too hot or have some extra headroom.
Thanks for posting!

 

[steve3194]

My Max temps when running prime95 were 80 degrees but usually hovered between 65 to 75.
My cooler is hyper evo 212. I haven't run Intel burn in yet. I tried 4.2 without touching voltages but my motherboard seemed to adjust it automatically going as high as 1.306. I thought I'd just try manually. Tried 4.5ghz first but it was taking pretty high voltage to even get into windows so I decided 4.3ghz was plenty. I have an Asus motherboard with the uefi BIOS. Do my voltages/temps seem safe to you guys?

Thanks

 

[burdenbound]

My Max temps when running prime95 were 80 degrees but usually hovered between 65 to 75.
My cooler is hyper evo 212. I haven't run Intel burn in yet. I tried 4.2 without touching voltages but my motherboard seemed to adjust it automatically going as high as 1.306. I thought I'd just try manually. Tried 4.5ghz first but it was taking pretty high voltage to even get into windows so I decided 4.3ghz was plenty. I have an Asus motherboard with the uefi BIOS. Do my voltages/temps seem safe to you guys?

Thanks

80 degrees is probably the highest you want your CPU to get ever, I personally like to keep mine in the low 70s while stress testing but I have a big honking cooler. I too used the hyper 212 with my 3570k before water cooling and I would never push it to 4.5 on that cooler. I personally would keep it at 4.2 and not touch voltages unless you got a better cooler, every .1GHz beyond that requires more and more power and heat.

What are your temps when you let your system automatically play with voltages and your at 4.2?

 

[steve3194]

I'm on a tablet can't figure out how to reply to posts sorry. Anyway, I'm not 100% sure on temps with the auto voltage but I can only assume they were the same or higher due to higher voltage of 1.306. I agree 80 is high but on load with the stock cooler at stock temps it also would reach 80. Besides I don't know any real world applications that would put 100% load on the CPU. Not any I'd use anyway. Idle is reasonable around 35 and after playing skyrim temps were around 60. Do you really think it would be worth downclocking? AFAIK Turbo boost would also raise voltage to above 1.3 I may be mistaken though.

 

[Alex Kelly]

80 is okay, but I wouldn't push your voltage any higher. Great OC! Well done.
60 is fine for gaming, too.
Hope we've helped, man! Let us know if you have any more questions or issues.
Best of luck

 

[tallmilk]

I got a 3570k stable at 4.6 on air.

Here is the trick, anything that has an auto adjustment under voltage that can be set to extreme, do it. Overvoltage isn't necessary.

Another thing, the 3570k tends to get unstable around 65-70 temps while gaming. You have to find an overclock that won't push that. This isn't about damage, it is about stability. I recommend starting at 4.0 and trying to get it stable with the least amount of volts possible.

I had a good costa rica chip and could get 4.0 stable at 1.15 volts or something. At 4.6 with my hyper evo in push pull, I was stable at 1.288 volts.

Ultimately, volts is not your issue, keeping your temps down is. I cannot stress this enough, getting that 3570k stable for gaming is low temps.