Basic things about overclocking

[wevsspot]

Going back to what I said earlier about measuring the draw at the outlet, here is an example with the i5 3570K;

 

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2012/05/01/intel-core-i5-3570k-cpu-review/7

 

Again, this is total system power consumption, but even then it shows an increase of 64 watts between idle and load at stock clocks and voltages, and a difference of 148 watts between idle and load when the same cpu is overclocked to 5Ghz.

 

Sorry Red - there just isn't any way that HWmonitor is giving you the correct information when the CPU is overclocked.

[StrelokSTK]

thanks, very useful

[RedFury77]

there just isn't any way that HWmonitor is giving you the correct information when the CPU is overclocked.

Well that's not a very useful tool then....why do they even bother if it's going to be that far off.  hwinfo64 shows the same, so no help there either I guess.

[encl0sed]

A very informative opening topic I might add, thanks for the replies.