Overclock Help!

[ben 9902]

so i decided to oc my i5 3570k just now to 4.2 as i am on air cooling and looked on CPU Z to validate it and found my core speed to be this????

 

what did i do wrong?

[TheUnnamedNewbie]

My first guess would be nothing: your CPU could be dynamicly downclocking itself under low load to save power. Have you tried running something like prime95 and then see what CPUZ gives you?

[das affe]

it is idleing. if it is not in use it will drop voltage (richt upper corner) and the multiplier to save energy 

[ben 9902]

My first guess would be nothing: your CPU could be dynamicly downclocking itself under low load to save power. Have you tried running something like prime95 and then see what CPUZ gives you?

No I didn't want to because I was unsure of the stability, should I try it?

[ben 9902]

it is idleing. if it is not in use it will drop voltage (richt upper corner) and the multiplier to save energy

It never did this before when I overclocked?

[C0LL0SS0S]

No I didn't want to because I was unsure of the stability, should I try it?

Lawl, how did you validate your OC then ? 

EDIT: You can also use aida64

[TheUnnamedNewbie]

No I didn't want to because I was unsure of the stability, should I try it?

 

I think you need to look up some basic overclocking 1-o-1. 

In order to know how "far" you can overclock, you need to do little (like, 50Mhz or even less, esp. if you are unfamiliar with overclocking) steps. After each step, you then boot your system, and run something like prime95.I would advise combining it with something like furmark to also heat up your GPU, if the air your CPU cooler uses to cool is hotter (due to the gpu) it's cooling power will be lower. You let this run for at least 15 minuits at the start, while constantly monitoring the tempratures. If they go to high (say, 75C to have some margin) during this test, you have hit the limit, and need to turn of the system, and go back a step in the overclocking. If it doesn't, and runs stable, you turn of your system, and do another step faster. You repeat this untill you hit your limit. Once you did, you should let it run prime95 for 12 hours min (I would advise more, like 24 hours or longer) to check if the overclock is stable (just because your tempratures are OK, doesn't mean it will be stable). If it is, you have hit a stable overclock and can let your settings be. If it isn't, you either have to up the voltage (but be carefull, I think that eventhough modern processors have temprature limiting, you can still break them with too much voltage) or you have to drop the overclock back a step, and repeat.

[ben 9902]

In your BIOS you can configure the CPU to never downclock.

 

 

it is idleing. if it is not in use it will drop voltage (richt upper corner) and the multiplier to save energy 

 

 

My first guess would be nothing: your CPU could be dynamicly downclocking itself under low load to save power. Have you tried running something like prime95 and then see what CPUZ gives you?

 

 

Lawl, how did you validate your OC then ? 

EDIT: You can also use aida64

 

running prime 95 im now getting 4181.23mhz on the core clock, is that right?

[C0LL0SS0S]

running prime 95 im now getting 4181.23mhz on the core clock, is that right?

yes now leave it running for about 30min atleast, and then do more if you so desire I don't recommend Prime95 since it should make problems with Haswell, go with Aida64

[ben 9902]

I think you need to look up some basic overclocking 1-o-1. 

In order to know how "far" you can overclock, you need to do little (like, 50Mhz or even less, esp. if you are unfamiliar with overclocking) steps. After each step, you then boot your system, and run something like prime95.I would advise combining it with something like furmark to also heat up your GPU, if the air your CPU cooler uses to cool is hotter (due to the gpu) it's cooling power will be lower. You let this run for at least 15 minuits at the start, while constantly monitoring the tempratures. If they go to high (say, 75C to have some margin) during this test, you have hit the limit, and need to turn of the system, and go back a step in the overclocking. If it doesn't, and runs stable, you turn of your system, and do another step faster. You repeat this untill you hit your limit. Once you did, you should let it run prime95 for 12 hours min (I would advise more, like 24 hours or longer) to check if the overclock is stable (just because your tempratures are OK, doesn't mean it will be stable). If it is, you have hit a stable overclock and can let your settings be. If it isn't, you either have to up the voltage (but be carefull, I think that eventhough modern processors have temprature limiting, you can still break them with too much voltage) or you have to drop the overclock back a step, and repeat.

 

yeah i do , im getting around 69/70c on average at the moment. is that ok?

[TheUnnamedNewbie]

yeah i do , im getting around 69/70c on average at the moment. is that ok?

 

I don't know your system, but gennerally, I believe that is safe on pretty much any system.

[ben 9902]

yes now leave it running for about 30min atleast, and then do more if you so desire I don't recommend Prime95 since it should make problems with Haswell, go with Aida64

 

i just dowloaded Aida64, now how do i benchmark? sorry, major noob here

[TheUnnamedNewbie]

i just dowloaded Aida64, now how do i benchmark? sorry, major noob here

Look it up on google or youtube. It will save someone the hassle of having to type it hear, and will probably be more complete as what they would type if they did anyways.

[C0LL0SS0S]

i just dowloaded Aida64, now how do i benchmark? sorry, major noob here

Better watch some videos before playing around with your CPU tbh

[ben 9902]

Better watch some videos before playing around with your CPU tbh

 

yeah probably

[LogicalDrm]

yes now leave it running for about 30min atleast, and then do more if you so desire I don't recommend Prime95 since it should make problems with Haswell, go with Aida64

 

OP has Ivy, not Haswell. P95 is completely fine with that.