My specs:
i5 3570k
Tz77b (Biostar)
12gb (8gb+4gb) of Corsair RAM @ 1333
^^^(Supposed to be 1600, but for some bizarre reason the SPD on the 4gb stick has 1333 as its default and its timings are 7/7/7/19 dispite it being labeled 9/9/9/24 @1600. My 8gb stick seems to be correct though, and it just scales down.)
Anyway, that's for another thread.
I cannot for the life of me overclock this setup. (A n00b for sure) Ive tryed the default Toverclocker program and modified the CPU clock (100mhz--> 120), with no effect. (not supprising)
I've tryed the Bios, both messing with the cpu clock, as well as the multipliers, again to no effect. Not only does the overclock not work, but the clock/multipliers never exece the cpu's default non-turbo frequency of 3.4ghz (x34). Not even the TURBO works. Also, every number value i change resets to default every time i boot back into the bios. The enabled/disabled options remain, but still with no affect to preformance.
The only thing that gives me any results whatsoever is the Intel Extreme Tuning utility. I change the multipliers to x43/x43/x42/x41 and the vcore accordingly. (1.25-1.30v) However it only seems to work on the program's own native stress tests. When I close it the overclock is gone.
I'm a huge noob and I'm sure I'm doing something wrong.
HELP? :3
I've been monitoring with CPU-Z