Can I overclock an i5-3475S?

[armagad]

I want to build a box for both business and pleasure, for business I want (at least think I want) vPro so I think I want an S not a K.

But it seems like all the OC articles and HOWTOs are written for Ks and anything about overclocking an S is scarce to non-existent.

(And yes this new rig would make me a long time reader first time OCer, please excuse some ignorance)

 

[ShintaiDK]

You cant really OC non K model. Only a sligth OC by turbomodes that cant be garanteed to kick in. And then you need a Z77/Z75. And you need Q77 for vPro. Plus overclocking for business is just plain wrong.

 

[armagad]

Thanks for your quick answer.

Oops, I think I meant VT-d (I just copy and pasted the first v-thing that S had that K didn't)

Not real business, I am a developer and I want to have the best rig to run some virtualized linux boxes on in Windows 7.

But since I am shelling out 600 of my own bucks I want to give the OC a try.

So to clarify, I don't care about lights-out or what ever vPro is, I heard K procs don't have all the same visualization goodies.

 

[ShintaiDK]

There is VT-X and VT-D. All CPUs got VT-X. VT-D is I/O virtualization. Alot of virtualization SW dont even support VT-D. And its usefullness is extremely limited. If you write certain drivers you might find VT-D useful.

There is also VT-C.

 

[Ratman6161]

Thanks for your quick answer.

Oops, I think I meant VT-d (I just copy and pasted the first v-thing that S had that K didn't)

Not real business, I am a developer and I want to have the best rig to run some virtualized linux boxes on in Windows 7.

But since I am shelling out 600 of my own bucks I want to give the OC a try.

So to clarify, I don't care about lights-out or what ever vPro is, I heard K procs don't have all the same visualization goodies.

I'm in the same boat in that I work from home and frequently have two or three VMs running at the same time on my 2600 K system with vmware workstatio,. I can tell you that clock speed is not particularly relevant for this. My 2600K is at 4.2 ghz- but it really doesn't matter. The 2600 k doesn't have vt-d either but you would never notice it.

What you need for desktop virtualization is:
1. lots of cores (including virtual cores i.e. hyper threading) So consider an i7 for the greater thread count.
2. lots of memory - I've got 16gb
3. Multiple disk drives

#3 is very important. It is amaing how much difference it makes to have your host OS and a vm on separate drives. I have an ssd for boot and software, a data disk, and two separate 500 gb disks for vm's. VMs that might need to run at the same time go on separate disks.