Well had a quick test of my new retail CPU Sunday - only had about 25lts of LN2 and very hot - so my session only lasted an hour or so before everything was soaked and LN2 was running low.

These Ivy Bridge CPU's certainly run very hot which may limit their appeal for air and water benchers - but if you have something colder - well they just fly 

My CPU seems to be somewhere at the lower end of achievements for retails seen to date - benching 6300+ for Pifast, Super Pi, and Maxxmem with no real issues. No way my board was going to run this cpu any higher though, 6350 was maximum regardless of volts used. Will try another board this coming weekend and see if this is definitely the cpu limit or not

Memory used is Team Xtreme 2600 Kit 10-12-12-31 2T - not maxed out just focused on CPU max to start 

Heres a few pics - no real tweaks, just a light os install
Someone order some bandwidth??


PiFast

Super Pi 1M

LN2 refill coming for a weekend of benching 

Hello , if I OC my i5 to probably around 4.4 ( from 3.4) will it benifit me in games like GTA, Fifa? I'll get a weaker GC if i choose to OC.

Example:
i5-3570K 4.3/4.4GHZ + 7850
Or
i5-3470 3.2Ghz + Gtx 660ti

Which will benifit me in games like GTA, Fifa?thanks !!

Yea,from same group of Russian guys (GUN'G'STAR - OCLab.ru)  with Ivy WR.

http://hwbot.org/forum/showpost.php?p=200726&postcount=397

It's much more easier to found "Gold" chip,if you have like this,hehe:

Guys,
i've got a question.

i'm running an OC-ed i5-3570k and when i tried crysis 2 today, i noticed that the temps are quite high (in my opinion la).
since there's a lot of overclockers here, are these temps ok? Should i worry?

Dont LoL at me la noobie here. hahahaha. didnt noticed early.

Here u go. 4.5GHz ITB tested. Noticed that CPU-Z read my vCore 1.202 but actual i set is 1.22v.

My cpu load level set to  'Level 1' and didnt droop its vcore. Fixed set to 1.22v. Even on idle it will be running at 1.22v

Does anyone find that the 3770K requires quite a bump in voltage when going past 4.5 Ghz? I'm currently on 4.6 Ghz and I've had to bump voltage to 1.28v to get 5 runs in IBT on maximum. Before this I only required a voltage of 1.24v for 4.5 Ghz (5 runs of IBT on maximum, more than an hour on P95). Anyway, still getting to know the chip.

While waiting another RAM back from warranty. Here's my test result

ASUS P8Z68-V LX motherboard, air cooling. Plz add me in list 

after upgrade to Noctua d14...
3770k oc 4.5ghz in 1.30v
max temp is 83'C : ....no good enough 

i hav a wc set running.. just wonder is that worth for the 0.1ghz for so much voltage...

need some advice/opinion;

I've seen some 3770K @ 4.4ghz/4.5ghz yield more gflops in Linx, do I need to turn off HyperThreading to get such result?
Even I turned off HT in BIOS, appears all 8 core/threads still have activity when fire up Prime95/Linx.. what gives? Sabertooth z77 mobo.
And not liking the temps at all under Linx test. Its sub 80*C on all cores on Prime95 tho.

thanks guys.