Ivy bridge overclocking is disappointing

[bret emerald]

(03-26-2012, 05:21 AM)NaturalViolence Wrote: That also makes no sense. Shorter wires would LOWER impedance. If the electrical resistance had increased than it makes no sense that the temps are much lower at stock settings compared to sandy bridge.

That's very true in fact, don't know why I was thinking shorter would increase impedance. Unless the wires are longer relative to the transistor size....Ah forget it, disregard my last post completely.

Something doesn't add up with these 'Tweaktown' previews, there has to be a reason for those overly high temperatures (hopefully it has nothing to do with that stupid new graphics core). I also think their OC methods may be questionable. If you look at the cpu-z screens showing the OC clocks, the vcore voltages appear to be very low...suggests to me they didn't enable load line calibration. Plus I can't help but think increasing the bclk so much as they did with the 3570k, can't be a good idea. I understand that they were using stepping E0 and the first retail chips will be E1 I think, so hopefully those will give us much better results......had my heart set on upgrading my i5 750 to a 3570k.

Btw any chance you could point me to a graph comparing stock temps with sandy bridge, can't remember seeing one (it's a shame 'Anandtech' didn't include one in their preview).