I5 760

[xMishax]

How high can you overclock  i5 760 processor? its on Gigabyte H55M S2H
Will it strongly bottleneck gtx 970?

 

[FireFox]

How high you can overclock will greatly depend on the chip itself

[typographie]

Lynnfield chips can often get to 4 GHz with adequate cooling. But yes indeed, no two chips are ever identical.

[Shrake907]

As a previous owner of a i5 750 rig (I got 4 years out of that thing!), mine was @ 3675 MHz on air. It was really burned in though as I waited a verrry long time to overclock it, but I was @ only 1.184 VCore. That thing could stream PlanetSide 2 and still maintain 50 FPS in large fights.

 

As was said before, silicon lottery is a thing, but Nehalem-Lynnfield is an amazing overclockable chip in itself.

[typographie]

As a previous owner of a i5 750 rig (I got 4 years out of that thing!), mine was @ 3675 MHz on air. It was really burned in though as I waited a verrry long time to overclock it, but I was @ only 1.184 VCore. That thing could stream PlanetSide 2 and still maintain 50 FPS in large fights.

 

As was said before, silicon lottery is a thing, but Nehalem-Lynnfield is an amazing overclockable chip in itself.

 

I'm still using my Core i5-750 at 3.675 GHz right now, though I've had mine stable as high as 3.8 GHz before.

[Shrake907]

I'm still using my Core i5-750 at 3.675 GHz right now, though I've had mine stable as high as 3.8 GHz before.

 

Very nice! I had only a H212 EVO in it with 3 fans, so I didn't wanna push it too far. It was snappy enough and I recently sold that system and built V2.0 with an i5 4690k powering it. Feels nice bein new tech, but man, that thing had sentimental value!

[typographie]

Very nice! I had only a H212 EVO in it with 3 fans, so I didn't wanna push it too far. It was snappy enough and I recently sold that system and built V2.0 with an i5 4690k powering it. Feels nice bein new tech, but man, that thing had sentimental value!

 

I'm using a Corsair H80i now, which seems to keep my 3.6 GHz overclock at 55 *C or below even in Prime95, even in Quiet mode. I actually had a crummy Zalman CNPS9000 back when I ran it at 3.8 GHz, though. Overclocking this thing has likely given me another year or more out of it.

[xMishax]

but what Mobo should be used? or any will work with decent cooler?

[harrynowl]

but what Mobo should be used? or any will work with decent cooler?

P55 preferably. 

[xMishax]

P55 preferably. 

do you think ASUS P7P55D will work fine?

[typographie]

do you think ASUS P7P55D will work fine?

 

I'm sure. I've done my overclocking using a Gigabyte GA-P55-USB3 board that was rather low-end and cheap when I bought it. It sounds like that P7P55D has a much better power delivery design than my board.

 

By the way, you might find this article useful:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i5-750-efficiency,2500.html

[ascalon08]

i use a  i5 760 with a H55M-S2H board my self will adding a 970 gtx without overclocking the processor still good? i have this pc for a long time now 6 to 7 years i think, i dont really care about high settings on graphics i see in video games im more into game play but if i can play DAI or farcry 4 with a good FPS with only replacing the GPU ill take it save me some more money , and i also dont know how to overclock and i live in the Philippines so heat is really bad here

[DeViLzzz]

http://www.overclock.net/t/858385/the-i5-760-oc-club

I think this would be a great place to get loads of information about overclocks with that cpu.

4.840Ghz at 1.552v was the highest overclock achieved in that i5 760 OC Club but 4 GHz seems to be where people should be really happy if they are lucky enough to get there with an overclock.

As for it bottlenecking a GTX 970 I honestly have to say I have no ****ing clue as I am not one who has put in time to learn how to see/find bottlenecks in pc systems.

[Majestic]

I still beat myself up I sold my 4.2ghz i5-760.