Life expectancy of my cpu?

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so i just got and installed a i5-3570k today,

basically i have it overclocked to 4.3(maybe higher in the future)

CPU-Z under full load says its is running at 4.3ghz, Core voltage as 1.160v, max heat after 20min of testing is 72c... I need this CPU for at least about 2 years do you think it can last that long at this kind of stress?
 
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Yeah with no problems. With that voltage and temp you will be fine for more like 7-10 years than 1-3. It's not like you are trying to squeeze 5Ghz out of it at 1.4v. My friend still has a Core2Duo E8400 I bought new in 2008 and overclocked to 4Ghz ( 3Ghz stock ) from day 1 and it still runs fine. In fact I'm pretty sure the Core2Duo E6600 from 2006 that I replaced with the E8400 is still running fine at 3.2Ghz ( 2.4Ghz stock ).
 
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You want the mid 70s at the top end. Most people get ~4.3 - 4.4Ghz out of a lower-midrange cooler. You probaby need to get a higher end cooler to go higher. Your voltage is very good though.
 
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thanks yeah here is what i have and i will run prime test for longer maybe on monday but after 20min and doing other things i feel like it is fairly stable.


Core Voltage, 1.184(ish it goes up and down a bit), 4.3ghz(i cant seem to pull 4.4 even when i bump up the voltage two notches its still bluescreens me.... kinda dissapointing really because i mean i pulled 4.7 with my 8120 and i was using a crappy motherboard but now im using extreme6 :/) Temps, average about 72 max

any idea why i cant pull 4.4?

note: after a while i will be getting a new case(I dont need one just want it to look cool 😛) and will be getting a custom water block but that is probably about 8 months and 500 dollars in the future 😛
 
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4.3 may just be your chips wall. And you cant compare Intel to AMD because of the different manufacturing process and architecture. The Ivy at 4.3 will be faster than the 8120 at 4.7 in 99% of any benchmarks.

Custom water cooling is fine as a hobby and all and if you just want something to pour money into but honestly is it worth hundreds of dollars in parts and time for maybe a few hundred megahertz in overclock? You would get a lot more performance out of adding another graphics card or just buyng a 6 core CPU to begin with depending on your use of the computer.
 
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great point... i guess i will take that advice, another 670 it is 😛(though i cant pass up on the case i need some eye candy to show my computer off 😀
 
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An FX8120 at 4.7GHz is good stuff. It would be interesting to see what your motherboard would do with a Piledriver. An i5 at any clock is not going to top that in multi-threaded stuff.

The GB 970-UD3 AM3+ is on sale this weekend for $100. Might work preeeeeeeety good with an FX6300😀


 
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That's a pretty safe voltage/clock speed but so i wouldn't worry about your cpu giving out, however you may want to invest in some better cooling @ 72C your cpu will degrade performance wise much quicker the Tcase for your CPU is 67.4C so you should aim for a max temp of 66C @ full load using all your available memory, do some fine tuning to the voltage to drop your temps or try dropping the voltage on your RAM, running fans over the heatsinks on your motherboard may help aswell.
 
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Idk about that the architecture is completely different, the 3570k packs .2 million more trigate transistors which are what gives it the edge over SB, most games are optimized for a maximum of four cores aswell, an i5 is more suited for gaming than the FX 8120, cs6 will run pretty nicely on it though as it will take advantage of all 8 cores, @ $120 it is a good deal price to performance. An FX 8350, or i5 2500k will probably get around the same or better performance as an overclocked IB though depending on the clock speed and cooling due to the overclocking limitations of ivybridge.
 
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He means,While your cpu will still be just as fast as when you first got it,The GPU's and games will be more demanding and hence you will need to upgrade when the 3570k starts to bottleneck...Thats why i went with the x79 platform and a 3820,Intel will be releasing more cpu's on the x79 platform in the future and i can always upgrade to a 3930k or whatever they come out with.
 
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If the next six years pan out about the same as the past six years, I would not expect much everyday/mainstream software's CPU requirements to increase that much. Lots of people around here with Core2Quads and first-gen i5/i7 are not feeling much of an urge to upgrade aside from an arbitrary itch to refresh their platforms with updated integrated goodies and better power efficiency.

Were it not for swapping driving me nuts on my 8GB C2D-E8400 and 16GB DDR2 costing nearly as much as i5+h77+16GB DDR3, I would still be using my C2D today - still felt perfectly adequate for 95% of what I do on a regular basis. While the i5-3470 is technically 2-2.5X as fast based on benchmarks, it only feels 20-30% faster for my everyday use. (Not counting when I load enough programs to make the C2D hit the swapfile, which naturally nukes performance.)
 
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