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I'm one of the people who has enough knowledge to get myself into trouble and I thought I'd share my recent experience. I had a Phenom II 965 BE and an ASUS M4A89GTD PRO/USB3 board. After doing some research I decided to do a switch to Intel for an upgrade. No slam on AMD, it was just evident that AT THIS TIME The Sandy/Ivy Bridge Cpu's are better performers for gaming and games are my most demanding applications.

I am not into benchmarks, what I care about is real world performance, and the only"benchmark" I have used is the WEI. I know this is a rather poor and general benchmarking tool but it is at least an indicator. Recently my wife's laptop died and I bought her an ASUS G75VW-TS71. Right off the bat I noticed that she got a better score in WEI on cpu and memory performance than I did on my gaming rig. This was even though her cpu was not rated to be as fast as my 965 and her memory was 12 gigs of 1333 vs. my 16 gig of 1600. So after doing some research and asking for opinions on the H
I ordered an I5/3570K and a Gigabyte GA-Z77X-UD5H.

The physical installation was no problem and I was pleased that there was just enough extra clearence between the ram sticks and my heatsink to slide the fan all the way down to where it should be. Previously I had to slide it up about a half inch. But both my DVD drives were EDI and the board has no provision for this. Uh Oh....I had no way of running the disc with drivers and utilitys. I tranfered the files to a thumb drive but the system either would not boot or would crash if it did boot. Sometimes it would crash almost immediately, once it ran for about an hour and a half. I got a Blu-ray drive and installed it a couple of days after. When I went to start up I took another look in the bios and saw that by default it was set to run the Ram in Turbo mode and for some illogical reason decided to switch it to normal. Voila....the system booted and has since run like champ. The board was reading the ram at 1333 so I manualy set it to 1600.

Here is the kicker. Running at stock clocks the CPU scores a 7.6 on WEI while my 965 scored 7.4 even overclocked to 3.8. The same Ram that scored 7.6 now scores at 7.8 The 965 would Idle at 32c with cool n quiet enabled, the 3570k idles at 22c. I have not seen it go above 40c when gaming whereas the 965 would hit 48c.

I'd like to thank the people who gave me a hand when I asked for help on the Intel motherboards forum and the Intel cpu forum here on the H. You came through for me with helpful suggestions and advice, and generaly kept me from losing my mind when I could not get this rig running. Glad I joined the Hard Forum.
 
Welcome aboard, There's a handful of knowledgeable people here and most importantly they are always there to share that knowledge with us, I've been on [H] for a short period and most if not all of my question has been answered wisely.
Also glad that you decided to switch to intel, specially with ivy bridge witch is well know for it's temperature stability, if you want it to run cooler and quieter you can always jump into a Liquid CPU Cooler, such as the H80 or H100.
 
Glad to hear you are happy with the new setup and welcome to the [H]orde!
 
Now that I've had some time with the new rig let me post some results. I reached 4.4 very easily just by using the quick tuning in Easy Tune 6. The WEI now scores the cpu at 7.8 and the ram at 7.9. The most demanding games I run give a max temp of 63c according to Core Temp. Even at stock clocks my perception is that the games seem smoother. perhaps a bit more vivid and loading time feels like it is quicker. Perhaps this is my imagination but still I have to say I am very pleased so far. I'll be doing some manual tuning in the future to see what I can come up with. The Easy Tune tends to ramp up the voltage higher than is needed to achieve the overclocks and I think I can get lower temps than I've seen.

There are some good tips on overclocking on the [H] review of the Ivy bridge cpu's. If anyone here would post their experince overclocking a 3570k I would appreciate it.
 
Got basically the same board (UD3H), and I'm at 4.5GHz with 1.315V in BIOS.
What you need to do is run some CPU intensive program, like IntelBurn Test, and watch CPU-Z at the same time to see if your overclock stays at 4.4GHz, or dips down. If it dips down, it's either throttling (too hot) or not getting enough amps (Power Limit set too low in BIOS).
Those last few extra MHz are always hard to get...;)
 
Instead of using the easy tune I decided to overclock in the bios. I settled for a minor overclock of 4.2 which was achieved at stock voltage. The whole reason for my upgrade was to ensure that I was not going to be cpu limited when I upgrade the gpu in the future. I figure 4.2 should do this for me with the least amount of heat. My build has to last so longevity is more important to me than bragging rights. If I can play at the highest settings and stay cool I'm a happy camper.

I will have a Samsung 500gb 840 in this system by the weekend.
 
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