I bought an intel i5 3570k, and I wanted to overclock it, but I'm not quite sure what I should really look at since I'm pretty new to the entire overclocking thing. plus I would also wanna know what kind of frequencies I can get on a corsair h60 (pull config).
now for the temperature question; I'm running the cpu at stock speeds, and when I look at my cpu temps on AI suite (from asus) and CPUID's HWmonitor, I see a difference in about 10 freaking degrees (celsius by the way). cpu temps on HWmonitor are like 10 degrees higher than the ones in AIsuite. now I have no idea which one is the accurate one...anybody any ideas?
If you trust yourself, and are not paranoid about the Intel warranty, I would recommend you de-lid your 3570k, apply some liquid metal thermal interface material, and drop your temperature by anywhere from 10 degrees to 20+ celsius.
Just saying, that don't trust the temp sensors wholly, you will need some airflow on your mobo aswell. For example, my friends computer had a stock cooler and a celeron processor. The temps were fine on the cpu but the mobo was like a fry pan. Another exapmle would be of my graphics card i modded the bios to add more performace than any oc tool would allow. Gpu temps were just fine(didn't get over 65) but the card kept shutting itself off, turns out the cards PCB was really hot. Added some heatsinks and a couple of fans blowing onto the card and it ran fine. Best thing you could to is to get a big ventialtor to blow on to your mobo directly. Try to get a hold of a laser thermometer and measure temps yourself. Also if applicable, update your bios. For exapmle i built a family pc and changed pentium D to core 2 duo. Shown temps with old bios were 21c under load and bios reported 350mhz processor speed. After bios update the temps were more realistic and the speed was as rated on the processor, 1.86Ghz.
For the OC results you should google them, see what other people got with your processor and cooling. Sets you a target, as noone can tell you by heart what speeds you can get. It varies. Every processor is a little bit different, not a single processor is identical.
my system is in a haf 912, and I have 2 stock fans blowing over the motherboard now. I'm gonna switch em out for corsair af fans later on. and I'm gonna put an AF fan in the top. I'm also gonna replace the pcie brackets with mesh.
I know that every cpu is different, but I was just wondering what kind of speeds I can get with a corsair h60, since it's not the best liquid cooler in the world and since ivy bridge runs a lot hotter than sandy.
yea, I'd love to do that...and I do trust myself...but I'm not taking any risks xD (due to the fact that I don't have nearly enough money to buy another cpu). but when I do have enough dough, I might look into this.
If you don't want to delid then I recommend getting at least one of the new H80i coolers, you should be good to go without any extreme OC, I would say 4.2-4.3 ghz is a solid, safe range (and equal to or better than Sandy Bridge chips clocked to 4.5/4.6 ghz).
Once you do delid your chip, oh boy, you're going to be seeing massive drops in temperature. There is an entire thread dedicated to it over at XtremeSystems forums.
ha, oh don't you worry, I'm gonna delid that little bugger...just not now... I need to make sure that I possess the funds to buy a new cpu if my "delidding" fails in some way. I was gonna put in a custom liquid cooling system anyway, so yeah...not buying an h80i