Post your overclocked goodies!

Nothing wrong with this thread. I can also help you in Ts kow

 

Im running a 660 ti with a i5 3570K and a corsair h80 cooler. I did slight OC work but not much

 

Whats your mobo? you should be able to run 4.6 easy.

Intel Voltage Limits​

(Sandy Bridge / Ivy Bridge)​

1. 2nd Gen Intel Datasheet p. 82​

2. 3rd Gen Intel Datasheet p. 86​

Type AKA Min Max Description​

Vᴄᴏʀᴇ Fixed, Offset, Turbo 0.25v 1.50v My recommended values. Not stated officially by Intel.
Vᴄᴄɪᴏ VTT, QPI, IMC 1.02v 1.08v May rarely help an overclock.
Vᴄᴄᴘʟʟ CPU PLL 1.71v 1.89v Lowering may help an overclock.
Vᴅʀᴀᴍ Memory RAM 1.5v 1.65v Specified by manufacturer.
Vᴄᴄsᴀ System Agent 0.879v 0.971v Leave on auto.
Vᴘᴄʜ N/A N/A N/A Not much info on. Leave on auto.
Vᴀxɢ Internal GPU 0.25v 1.50v Leave on auto.
My recommended values. Not stated officially by Intel.

Intel Temperature Limits​

Type Sandy Bridge Ivy Bridge​

Max 98C 105C
Throttle 93C+ 98C+
Optimal 85C- 90C-
Min -50C- -50C-

(+) = or above. (-) = or below.​

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This is the basics or baseline of Max Voltage and MAx throttle temp. Your motherboard is important because the top settings are for my specific mobo and not yours.​

 

Is there any way to determine whether your mobo is able to overclock your CPU at all?
I'm always CPU bound in PS2 and a few frames extra wouldn't hurt.

Code:

Manufacturer    Dell Inc.
Model    0WG864 (Microprocessor)
Chipset Vendor    Intel
Chipset Model    P965/G965
Chipset Revision    C2
Southbridge Vendor    Intel
Southbridge Model    82801HH (ICH8DH)
Southbridge Revision    B0

That's with a Q6600 CPU running at stock.

 

Just go into the BIOS and check; takes 2 seconds.

 

BIOS says no, but if I remember correctly, that didn't stop most of the overclockers a few years ago. Did this change?

 

If you can't increase the FSB or multiplier, you can't overclock - that simple.

 

You can try to run a program like throttle stop and verify it with cpu-z or cupid hw monitor.


You can try to run a program like throttle stop increase the multiplier. Verfiy it with cpu-z and cupid Hardware monitor. It might work, your biggest hit is messing with the voltages, which is how you OC real high and you won't be able to change those, they may show up in MSI or something, however I bet that CPUID will show no changes, same thing may happen with throttle stop.

 

CPU: i5 3570K @ 4.20Ghz stock fan
Ram: 2x4096MB DDR3 1600 Mhz
MB: ASUS P8Z77-V LX
GPU: Nvidia ASUS DCII GTX 660 Ti (picking it up tomorrow)
PSU: 550 Watts
Antec Performance P182 Miditower
Intel SSD 330 series 180Gb

I'm going to overclock the GPU and run some benchmarks, I heard it's a good card to OC. I could probably push the CPU beyond 4.20Ghz aswell.