Overclocking a 5 year old CPU

[migillicutty]

My build:

MOBO: P8Z77-V

Ram: 16 Gbs Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600 PC3 12800

CPU: Intel I5-3570K Ivybridge 3.4Gb

Power Supply: 1250W Gold 80+

Cooling: Thermaltake 140mm CPU Cooler, dual fan and radiator

GPU: And a new Asus ROG Strix GTX 1080ti OC edition

Hello Everyone, I hope you are all having a great Saturday!!

My Question today is that the build you see above is 5 years old. I just bought and installed the new GPU and my mother board wont support a CPU higher than an I7-3770K, which from what I have read, isn't that much better than what I am currently running.

I am looking to upgrade to a new system end of 17, beginning of 18.

In the mean time would it be safe or advised to try to overclock my existing CPU? I have never tried to OC it and thought that it might give my gaming rig a bit of a boost to match up with my new GPU. On the flip side I dont want to chance frying my CPU/MOBO either.

Any and all thoughts are most welcome and thank you in advance for any information shared.

 

[ShadyHamster]

It's definitely worth overclocking that CPU especially since it will be slightly bottlenecking a 1080ti.

My 3570k does 4ghz at stock voltage which is 1.2v which seems quite high to me.
I would set 4ghz first up and see how you go with stability and go from there.

 

[migillicutty]

It's definitely worth overclocking that CPU especially since it will be slightly bottlenecking a 1080ti.

My 3570k does 4ghz at stock voltage which is 1.2v which seems quite high to me.
I would set 4ghz first up and see how you go with stability and go from there.

Hey Shady,

Thanks for taking the time to write back and answer. Much appreciated!!

 

[ShadyHamster]

Interested in knowing what your stock voltage is for that cpu.

As i said at 100% stock my 3570k voltage is 1.2v and it can only just do 4ghz at that voltage, try lowering it and it's unstable.
I have a non k 3570 laying around and it's stock voltage is just under 1.1v, funnily enough it to can do 4ghz at it's stock voltage, shame it's a locked cpu and can't go past that.

 

[disinformatique]

It also depends on the Silicon Lottery. I think you can easily overclock your CPU to 4Ghz or atleast 3.9-ish Ghz. You might have to slowly raise the overclock and see which values are stable for you.

I am running an i3 530 2.93 Ghz at a stable 3.652 Ghz using a Hyper 212X. It also works at 3.78Ghz but unfortunately the low density ram starts throwing errors. All of this only on an Intel DH55TC which has no VCore Voltage option.

https://gyazo.com/c894cba722627adaf4ec60006c512c54

 

[disinformatique]

Interested in knowing what your stock voltage is for that cpu.

As i said at 100% stock my 3570k voltage is 1.2v and it can only just do 4ghz at that voltage, try lowering it and it's unstable.
I have a non k 3570 laying around and it's stock voltage is just under 1.1v, funnily enough it to can do 4ghz at it's stock voltage, shame it's a locked cpu and can't go past that.

It funny though, no two chips are the same. Some people hvae been running First Gen i3's at over 4.0Ghz. Mine only stays stable upto 3.785Ghz