3570K overclocking wall??

[Bullieman13]

So I finally attempted again to get a high/stable overclock on my cpu again. After a lot of playing, the highest stable overclock i could get was 4.6ghz @ 1.27v with temps avg. at around 66-68c... this seems rather low for me... and no matter what i give her (volts, multiplier) I cant get any higher... any suggestions?

 

Asus Sabertooth Z77, 3570K, H100i in push pull, 16g of Mushkin 2133 ram running at 1866

[Godlygamer23]

It looks you've hit an OC wall on your CPU.

[FireFox]

So I finally attempted again to get a high/stable overclock on my cpu again. After a lot of playing, the highest stable overclock i could get was 4.6ghz @ 1.27v with temps avg. at around 66-68c... this seems rather low for me... and no matter what i give her (volts, multiplier) I cant get any higher... any suggestions?

 

Asus Sabertooth Z77, 3570K, H100i in push pull, 16g of Mushkin 2133 ram running at 1866

 

4.6Ghz is pretty good, I think I'd just leave it like that

[Bullieman13]

alrighty guys thank you! I was hoping for a bit higher, but i guess i will have to go with that for now... Appreiciate the fast replies!!! :D

[Wats]

Try 75% LLC and putting the voltage frequency to about 350-400. You can also turn on full phase mode, I think its the extreme option.

[nickpc]

4.6Ghz is pretty good 

[FireFox]

4.6Ghz is pretty good 

 

Yea, a 1.2Ghz increase should give a little performance kick lol

[Fonil]

Some really good info in this Asus OC 4th Gen OC Guide, give it a read through and see if you cant squeeze a little bit more out. 

 

P.S it's a 3MB PDF 

[Opsilon]

I have one more suggestion for you if you have 4 dimms of ram installed, remove 2 and give that a try just for OC sake, and the other thing you might try is put memory to CAS 9 and speed at 1600, that is the last thing, and just keep in mind that as Linus already said, about 50% of the chips made go to 4.5/6 ghz, 25% 4.7 ghz and that percentage keeps decreasing the higher you go...

[pwnorbpwnd]

Just take what you got out of it and get the least voltage you can out of it. That is unless you have the money to keep trying to risk death upon your CPU. :P

[unidentical]

What a coincidence, I was just messing around with my clocks on my 3570k.

 

I typically undervolt to 1.08 and run at an even 4GHz, but I wanted to see how far I could push it within reason.

 

I got mine on a silverstone HE01 with the fans all still set to quiet mode to 4.4GHz at 1.22V with the hottest core hitting 78 degrees under OCCT Linpack.

 

I'm pretty happy with that.

 

Next step is to make an eco mode that runs undervolted at stock clocks, see how cool and quiet this sucker can get.

[CountChoculitis]

My chip had the exact same problem. No matter what settings I changed or increase in voltage, I could not do higher than a 46 multi. Worked out in the long run though because my cooling would not be able to keep up with any more volts. With 4.6ghz and 1.33 volts I was right at the borderline. As long it does not thermal throttle during stability testing I am happy though. 24/7 and in games my temps never go above 70 C.

[That Norwegian Guy]

Well you could clock it unsynced. Run Intel burn test on your stable overclock and then look at realtemp. Usually one or two cores will get quite a bit hotter than the others. Set those cores' multipliers to 45-46 then go for 47-48 on the low temp ones.