i5-3570k can't clock past 4.2ghz

[howasaur]

Hello,

 

I have an i5-3570k that is under an h50 aio in a gigabyte z77-d3h motherboard.

 

I have the Easy Tune 6 application installed and have tried to use that to OC (with some success).

 

The problem that I'm having is that HWMonitor (and CPU-z) both read that I am hitting the target frequencies right after booting into windows, but as soon as I fire up Cinebench R15 to see my OC results, I only see a max 4167mhz ish clock.

This is also backed up by the fact that I'm consistently hitting 560cb, no matter what my OC is set to (as long as its over 4.2ghz).

 

I have reset CMOS, but still can't figure out how to get it to effectively get over 4.2ghz.

 

I want to overclock as high as I can and do plan on delidding in the future.

 

 

EDIT: just figured out that the ratios/multipliers in EasyTuner6 were limiting my overclock. Just upped it to 4.4 on all cores and hit 600cb...

so I guess I have to uninstall ET6 if I want to OC from BIOS?

[ricksteendam1]

sometimes you just won't get the overclocked chip 

 

 

[DildorTheDecent]

Yup. ET6 was a rubbish utility the last time I used it. 

 

Do all OC in the BIOS. Well, maybe fine tune a few things with ET6 if need be but ideally all OC is in BIOS. 

 

Edit: Last used ET6 with 3570K + Z77X-UP7. I'd advise to avoid the presets and the program in general. Like all Gigabyte software in that era it was a buggy mess. 

[geo3]

I have that same chip, different MB though. I've never had a good experience with software OC utils. I always OC from the bios. It's just seemed more reliable to me. Anyway I'm hitting 4.4 on stock voltage settings.