Best Constant OC for 3570K

[Kyle]

Hi, i'm getting the intel i5 3570k and will have the stock air cooler and when i get enough money, i'll replace it with a corsair h100 - i've never owned a desktop pc before and so i know nothing about overclocking or about the volt speeds or anything. so i want to get the most out of my chip and want to have it on a constant overclock. what frequency can i get the stock cooler and what can i get with the h100? can someone also link me to a guide about setting the whole thing up. i'm getting a msi gd65 board with 8gb dual channel vengeance ram

 

[jamesriley94]

You dont need a guide really - it's dead easy on Ivybridge - we'll help you through it.

I'd advise against overclocking on stock cooling - but if you insist - see how high you can push without changing the voltage at all. I'd expect probably around 4.0ghz - ish. I really wouldnt want to increase the volts on stock cooling - but that's me.

Wait for the H100 to do it properly

 

[seumasbeathan]

Yeah as James be careful oc'ing on stock cooling, for a h100 just bump the multiplier up to 45 and up the voltages until it is stable

 

[robbiess]

don't touch the vcore turn off intel turbo boost inside the bios and the just keep on pushing the core clock at about 50-100mhz every time run stress tests every time to make sure it's stable then when it's unstable go back to your previous clock Ivy-bridge is so easy. don't touch the V's with stock cooling it'll damage your cpu if you run it constantly and really ocing on stock cooling is a bad bad decision if it was me i wouldn't do it

 

[Master&Puppet]

Should be fine at 4.0 on stock but the auto volts (~1.1) are already higher enough to push through more heat than the stock cooler than cope with if you raise the clock much more.

The link in my sig might help too..

 

[Josh Weston]

Follow M&P's guide and you'll be golden, my friend
I could get to 4.2GHz on stock volts, but i'd imagine the temperature would start to soar.
My friend has a 3570k and is using the stock Intel cooler. His temps while using IBT Maximum, at stock, were encroaching 80*C on the hottest core.