Can I push my Intel i5-3470 to run at 4GHz?
Can I push my Intel i5-3470 to run at 4GHz?
Hey guys! I'm using an Intel Core i5-3470 and I want to know if it's okay to make my CPU run faster at 3.8 or 4.0 GHz. Here are the details of my setup. The CPU is a core, the board is ASRock Z77 Extreme4, the graphics card is an EVGA Geforce GTX 970, and I have 8GB of RAM. I also got a Cooler Master Seidon 120M liquid cooler to keep things cool, so heat isn't really a problem for me.
Hey, sometimes you can speed up a CPU slightly if it's not marked K by changing its Base Clock, but this usually only adds about 3% and affects things like graphics cards too, so it's better to leave it alone. If you really want to try it in the BIOS, go from 3.6GHz all the way to 3.7GHz Turbo, which is still just a 3%. I don't think that matters much. Other stuff: DX12 games should keep your i5-3470 working fine for a long time. It might be cool to see how things do on the first few games, but I think most of us will still hit a wall with top CPUs like an FX-4100 often grouped together (bottleneck no longer at CPU). We'll just have to wait and see though. Very few games would benefit from clocking that i5-3470 higher right now either.
Open the Intel utility, go to manual tuning, turn off turbo mode, and move those sliders down to 40, 39, 38, then apply. This gives you around 4.1 ghz when using two cores and 3.8 to 3.9 ghz when all four cores are used. You don't need to change voltages; your motherboard will handle that. Leave everything else exactly as it is right now. With my Hyper 212 Evo cooling running Prime95 for half an hour, I got stable temperatures between 50 and 55 degrees. It stays steady when playing heavy games or doing video rendering. I don't suggest messing with the base clock because that changes every frequency in your system and could make things unresponsive or cause a boot failure.
you can do it, you have a board that lets you change how fast the processor runs. i am using one with a Z68 chip, and before my overclocking went up to 4.1 GHz.
I am using an i5 processor with a 3rd Gen Intel CPU. Since I do not have access to the official manual, I cannot overclock my hardware directly. Also, since there is no specific option for overlocking in my settings menu, that might be the reason. I can only use the X.M.P feature and nothing else can be changed from here.