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how far can the i3 560 overclock

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steamtrain

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Aug 25, 2012
Hello guys, i am new to this forum. My name is Luis and i recently purchased parts to build a computer. I went for an i3 560, with the p55 sli classified 200 motherboard and as cooling i have the h100 corsair liquid cooler. Reason i went for this is because i got all three of them for 225 brand new with warranty and everything(the h100 alone online is 100 dollars, so basically i got the mobo and processor for 125, which is a steal).
If i decide i want more power later down the road ill sell that mobo and i3, and buy me an i5 or i7. For now i want to see once i get the rest of the parts Monday, and i put it together. How far can the i3 560 go and will it be a bottleneck to the gtx 560 ti? if not can i sli the gtx 560 ti and how much of a bottleneck will the i3 be? assuming i overclock it to the MAX.

My build is goes as follows,

-core i3 560 3.33 GHz stock clock
-evga p55 classified 200 3 way sli motherboard
-H100 corsair liquid cooler
-zotac gtx 560 ti overclocked
-Corsair Vengeance 8GB DDR3-1600MHz, 9-9-9-24 CAS Latency, Intel XMP Ready, Unbuffered
-Seagate ST1000DM003 Barracuda 1TB Hard Drive - 7200RPM, 64MB, SATA 6Gb/s
-windows 7 home premium 64 bit

as you can see, if later down the road i wana upgrade ill just sell the board and i3, and i can get a different one. Anyways, my question is, how far can i expect to push the i3 so it wont be a bottleneck to my gtx 560 ti, and if overclocked enough, can i sli?

Thank you.
 
I was able to get 4.6gHz stable on my i3 540 with really high voltage it pushed 4.8gHz. I was surprised that a $100 chip went so high and honestly felt faster than my 2500k in bf3.
 
Ok so i managed to push it to 4.44 GHz, and the voltages are the following. tell me if its too much, or if i messed with something i wasent suppost to mess with. thnx
vcore:1.37500
vtt voltage: 1.37500
dram voltage. automatic settings threw it to 1.65 so i set it manually to 1.50(the box for the ram said that it can run 1600 at 1.50. so i left it at that)

those are the only voltages i messed with. I ran intel burn test for 3 hours and the temps never went over 64 C. they usually stayed at 61-62 when running the test at "very high" stress level. I say not bad, and it iddles at 32-32 C. thanks, i would like to get it to 4.7 at least, and if so, what can i do, and what voltages should i mess with and which ones i should not mess with.

The intel burn test, after 3 hours said my system is stable. but i would like to know what can i change, do i need to lower voltages, if so where. I would like to get this to 4.7GHz.
 
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