3570k overclocking advice

[TheGasMan]

Hi there, I am building myself a budget gaming rig and I am looking for some advice on the overclock. I have followed an ivy bridge overclocking guide and by incrementally increasing the voltage I found a stability sweet spot of 1.27v at 4.5ghz. I have run prime95 for 12 hours and had no errors and the maximum recorded temp on real temp was 65c.

 

My question is do these numbers seem reasonable and would the voltage be okay to run as a 24/7 overclock or would it be better to use an offset voltage? I bought the cpu used and was told by the previous owner that the processor had been overclocked, my next question is will the processor have a reasonable lifespan running at this voltage and could the fact that it has been previously overclocked mean that the cpu has degraded in some way; if so would this effect its performance or stability?

 

If its relevant, here are my system specs -

 

Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Motherboard

i5 3570k

Corsair H75 Water Loop

7950 Graphics Card

Corsair TX850 Power Supply

 

Any help or advice would be much appreciated

[SPAS-ID]

Basicly overclocking is selling the CPU Lifespan for Extra Performance, the more you Overclock the more it'll Die Faster

[runit3]

 

Hi there, I am building myself a budget gaming rig and I am looking for some advice on the overclock. I have followed an ivy bridge overclocking guide and by incrementally increasing the voltage I found a stability sweet spot of 1.27v at 4.5ghz. I have run prime95 for 12 hours and had no errors and the maximum recorded temp on real temp was 65c.

 

My question is do these numbers seem reasonable and would the voltage be okay to run as a 24/7 overclock or would it be better to use an offset voltage? I bought the cpu used and was told by the previous owner that the processor had been overclocked, my next question is will the processor have a reasonable lifespan running at this voltage and could the fact that it has been previously overclocked mean that the cpu has degraded in some way; if so would this effect its performance or stability?

 

If its relevant, here are my system specs -

 

Gigabyte Z68XP-UD3 Motherboard

i5 3570k

Corsair H75 Water Loop

7950 Graphics Card

Corsair TX850 Power Supply

 

Any help or advice would be much appreciated

 

Those voltages/temps are more than reasonable. Most Sandy/Ivy OC's run north of 1.35v. You've got plenty of headroom if you want to push it further, although I don't know how the H75 would hold up.