ivy bridge 3570k and Asus P8z77-vPro. 4.5Ghz easily doable?

[Daq32]

Glad someone is having the same questions I'm having. I have the same setup, i5 3570k on Asus p8z77-v pro with cooler master 212 evo cooler. Auto overclocked and got pretty much the same results, 4.5 ghz. However i dont understand all the settings and after reading the board, decided to just go back to default and try to figure out how to manually do it. Still tryin to figure it all out, but it did seem to run fine with the auto oc.

 

[poohbear]

meh, i thought my 2500k sandy bridge would reach 4.7ghz easily, and people came on here saying yes i should expect that, but it will NOT pass 4.5ghz without massive tweaks and voltage, and since ivy bridge is supposed to overclock less than SB i'd take whatever everyone here is saying with a grain of salt. Maybe u'll hit 4.3 easily, but anything beyond that is gonna take some work (more work than is worth the extra 200mhz IMO).

 

[coffeejunkee]

Well, it all depends on your definition of 'easy' i guess. It's certainly a lot easier to get a 2500K at 4.7Ghz than an i7 920 fex. But I get what you're saying, some people are a bit too enthusiastic. I will say 4GHz is really very easy, 4.3 might need a little tinkering and 4.6+ requires good understanding of overclock settings. Although it really isn't that complicated at all and there are tons of guides available as well. Lets face it, it's not exactly rocket science.

It only gets hard when you want to set world records. This will require knowledge of advanced memory settings and tweaking os processes.

 

[Daq32]

Decided to do the auto oc thing again. 4.5 ghz, voltage up to 1.32. Is that ok?