Intel Ivy Bridge

[HiThere]

Originally Posted by Higgy10

I understand how its supposed to work but my question is does it?

Well...yeah. All the reviews say the same thing: frame rate boost when above monitor refresh, hurts you when you're below refresh, doesn't work in some games. "Works" is a relative term, tho, as most are expecting some sort of visible frame rate boost, when all it really does is decrease lag (when it works) and give you a bigger e-penos via benchmarks.

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Its sounds pretty usefull if it works, you can use vsync with no input lag, and not only that, it increases responsiveness over what your frame rate would be without vsync. So you can use vsync and have it feel like your regular 100fps, but then with the boost on top it might feel like 130fps.

If you are expencting a frame rate boost, then its useless, but thats not what its for.

[Higgy10]

weill i should find out soon enough, cpu came in yesterday so i can get it installed today hopefully

[CurrentlyPissed]

Originally Posted by Swiftdeathz

No, I left the PLL at Auto but did enable PLL overvoltage. I'll give that a try and see if I can get some stability.

What are the max safe volts I can put through these chips for 24/7 oc? I think I read over 1.3v and they start to get warm.

Google overclocking ivy official thread. overclocking forums has a thread for people to put in what they did. I cant see it at work to link.

[**G.I.BRO**]

Originally Posted by Danny Nissan

Noo get the 3570K! If you buy non-K variants you cant overclock!!!!!

Its going to be used by someone else, so OC'n is no option. Its default speeds and whatever it boosts too will be efficient enough.

Update; well ive gone through two asus motherboards so far, both wont post as the fans and such just power on for a few secs and everything just dies. There are times that the board wont respond at all unless i click the power button like 2-3 times in a row. Other than the CPU Ive swapped everything out and same response. I even put the parts removed into my rig and they seem to work just fine. I dont have any more resources or the time so i left it at the store and they will poke around. Very stressful thus far.

[Swiftdeathz]

Originally Posted by CurrentlyPissed

Google overclocking ivy official thread. overclocking forums has a thread for people to put in what they did. I cant see it at work to link.

I messed around for a bit and changed the voltage to Fixed 1.3v with LLC 2. With vdroop i'm seeing around 1.27-1.28v during load and my temps rose to 77C @ 4.6ghz with prime95.

I don't know yet if it's stable or if I'm gonna end up being comfortable with those temps. It is kinda cool right now and with my 4.4ghz OC using LLC 5 and only an increase of 0.005v I am seeing temps of like 63C.

The thing is now is kinda cool, but once the temp starts rising and my ambients go through the roof, I don't know how the temps will fare then. I did get a decent boost in Cinebench 11.5 from 7.30 to 7.59

[Higgy10]

Just finished assembly and so far so good aside from the minor issues. Mounting a corsair h70 was a pain, same cooler sticks out on the sides slightly and is blocking pcie slot1 and slot 4 is somewhat blocked due to a usb2.0 header on the board. Nice initial temps being reported in the bios tho, 23c!

[Higgy10]

Havent really done a whole lot of game testing yet but the couple of benchmarks ive ran its roughly the same fps vs my old i7 930@3.8. Im sure this will change once i oc tho. Power consumption and heat are down considerably tho

[Higgy10]

well my camera isnt the best but u should be able to see what im talking about with 1st pci slot being obstructed
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/717/197ni.jpg/
any thoughts?

[KAC]

What setup you made?

[Higgy10]

Originally Posted by KickAssCop

What setup you made?

asus p8z77 ws and a 3770k

[Higgy10]

Initial oc results seemed ok, was pretty conservative to start tho.
multi-42
llc-ultra high
vcore-1.1v

getting around 62c full load temps with prime

[Swiftdeathz]

I messed around with my IB overclock a bit more. Was able to hit 4.5GHz but not fully stable and I had to put way more voltage and that spiked the temps up to like 75-85.

For now it seems the sweet spot of my chip is 4.4ghz with +0.010v offset and LLC 3. I have PLL overvoltage enabled as well. I also have my RAM @ 1800mhz 10-10-10-28 2T with 1.60v

That nets me P12073 in 3DMark11 and around 2k in Heaven 3.0 @ 1680x1050 with Extreme tess and 8x AA 16x AF.

my 7870 CFX @ 1150/1350 using 12.3 drivers.

[Higgy10]

well my chip will do 4.3ghz@1.1v, insta bsod at 4.4

[Swiftdeathz]

I'm happy enough with a chip at 4GHz and beyond, next up 5GHz.

This chip though was nearly twice as much performance in certain apps/tests than my last CPU, so I can't complain. The memory bandwidth over my last CPU is also unreal.

[Danny Nissan]

Originally Posted by Higgy10

well my chip will do 4.3ghz@1.1v, insta bsod at 4.4

How high can one go with the voltages before the temps go crazy high?

[Treeckcold57]

I was thinking about getting the corsair H80 instead of hyper 212 plus for my i5 3570K...is it worth having a better cooling? I dropped the monitor from my list, so maybe i can get the h80?

[Higgy10]

Originally Posted by Danny Nissan

How high can one go with the voltages before the temps go crazy high?

Im testing prime now at 4.5ghz now @1.2v and temps are in the high 60s peaking at 71c with a corsair h70

[Swiftdeathz]

Originally Posted by Danny Nissan

How high can one go with the voltages before the temps go crazy high?

Generally once you start hitting over 1.3v But the thing is it depends what software you are using and what instructions it uses. For instance my 3570k @ 4.4Ghz is loading @ 1.21v while folding@home and I've seen as high as 71C with 25C ambient temps.

Now if I fire up some encoding program that uses AVX or say run LinPack or the p64v276 version of prime95 which uses AVX then my temps will get much hotter if I have more volts going through it. (with same ambient temps 25C that I was seeing a max temp of 71C after hours of folding@home, I fired up the v276 of Prime95 which uses AVX and in a matter of minutes I was seeing temps of 79C with load voltage slightly going up to 1.22v) So compound this with higher speeds + 1.25-1.3v and you have what others are seeing with temps going up over 85-95C.

[shadow001]

Originally Posted by Swiftdeathz

Generally once you start hitting over 1.3v But the thing is it depends what software you are using and what instructions it uses. For instance my 3570k @ 4.4Ghz is loading @ 1.21v while folding@home and I've seen as high as 71C with 25C ambient temps.

Now if I fire up some encoding program that uses AVX or say run LinPack or the p64v276 version of prime95 which uses AVX then my temps will get much hotter if I have more volts going through it. (with same ambient temps 25C that I was seeing a max temp of 71C after hours of folding@home, I fired up the v276 of Prime95 which uses AVX and in a matter of minutes I was seeing temps of 79C with load voltage slightly going up to 1.22v) So compound this with higher speeds + 1.25-1.3v and you have what others are seeing with temps going up over 85-95C.

Break out more extreme water cooling with bigger radiators, more fans, more powerfull pumps and better CPU water blocks, and a lot more liquid running in the loop.....It is more expensive and labour intensive, but also allows lower temperatures than could ever be reached with the all in one units under hard loads and heavy overclocks.

[Swiftdeathz]

Originally Posted by shadow001

Break out more extreme water cooling with bigger radiators, more fans, more powerfull pumps and better CPU water blocks, and a lot more liquid running in the loop.....It is more expensive and labour intensive, but also allows lower temperatures than could ever be reached with the all in one units under hard loads and heavy overclocks.

Not looking for a super duper extreme overclock. A 1ghz over stock is plenty for me on a nice quiet air-cooled setup using an ancient heatsink. (using a TRUE Black mounted using 775 bracket)

You also forgot to mention it would also be more expensive.

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Anyone managed to hit 4.8 stable yet?

[KAC]

Originally Posted by demo

Anyone managed to hit 4.8 stable yet?

lawl...

[demo]

Originally Posted by KickAssCop

lawl...

What?

[KAC]

Proc will be running at 90-95C average tempratures. Why would someone do that to their processor?

[demo]

Depends on your cooling and voltage doesnt it? TJMAX is also 105c instead of SB 95c, so running IB at 90c is not really any different than running SB at 80c.

I take it you havent been able to achieve 4.8 like some other people have, I was curious if any Rages had aswell, thanks for your input KAC.

[Higgy10]

Originally Posted by demo

Anyone managed to hit 4.8 stable yet?

Not sure if ill hit that or not demo, temps are pretty good at 1.2v not sure if i want to goto 1.3v. Only will hit 90+ on stuff like prime kac, gaming is usually 20c less.

[KAC]

Originally Posted by demo

Depends on your cooling and voltage doesnt it? TJMAX is also 105c instead of SB 95c, so running IB at 90c is not really any different than running SB at 80c.

I take it you havent been able to achieve 4.8 like some other people have, I was curious if any Rages had aswell, thanks for your input KAC.

I don't have IB. With SB my 2600K does run stable at 4.8 Ghz. 5 Ghz is a stretch though.

You are welcome

[demo]

Originally Posted by KickAssCop

I don't have IB. With SB my 2600K does run stable at 4.8 Ghz. 5 Ghz is a stretch though.

You are welcome

Oh you dont have IB, thanks for responding to my question. 4.8 on IB is roughly 5.1-5.3 on SB, so is pretty decent performance, plus IB can handle uber fast RAM speeds higher than SB.

[demo]

Originally Posted by Higgy10

Not sure if ill hit that or not demo, temps are pretty good at 1.2v not sure if i want to goto 1.3v. Only will hit 90+ on stuff like prime kac, gaming is usually 20c less.

Moar voltage!

By the way guys, I read there is another IB chip coming in a couple months, above the 3770k, hopefully its revised a little for better temps and clocks.