Just looking for some general help with my soon to be 1 year old build

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mbossi19

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Hey guys. So my baby is going to be turning 1 in a few months and I just want to make sure im treating her right. Specs are as follows:
3570K
60gb boot ssd
500gb hdd
8gb ram
sapphire 7870xt (brand new)
700 watt psu
hyper 212 plus.

So basically I just want to get her running the best possible because after installing my new gpu I noticed some slowdown. Mainly in the boot up time but its still noticable. I was able to update my asrock bios and enabled fast boot so we will see what that does.

I am open to overclocking both the gpu and cpu however I absolutely failed trying to overclock the cpu and had to revert it back to stock which is fine at this point. I just figured I have an unlocked processor and a decent cooler so why not push it to like 4.0ghz or less.

Any help is greatly appreciated. I believe I overclocked my gpu by simply increasing the power by 20% in CCC.

The real test will be running tomb raider which I am downloading right now. If I can run that no problem with no slowdown at all then I will be a happy camper.

Suggestions, questions, anything. I want to learn as much as possible.
 
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Increasing the power slider does not overclock your GPU. It just increases the power that is allowed to run into your GPU. To over clock it you slider the 'Core Clock' slider upwards in 25mhz increments until it is no longer stable, then back the slider back down to where it was last stable. To overclock you do need the power slider at 20% though (as you have done)
 
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Hey Mate,

I've OC'd my 3570K to 4.3Ghz which it seems to be quite a stable speed (no crashes, temp is fairly low etc). Not too sure about the video card as i'm not very familiar with the current radeon line. My current card is an Asus GTX 660 OC'd out of the box which can't really be OC'd that much more as there is very little gain.

I'm able to play tomb raider on Ultra/Ultimate settings at 1080p with reasonable fps.
 
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DelightfulDucklings

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In your original post you said you have a new 7870XT? Which one is it? :p

If it is a nVidea card I wouldn't bother overclocking much because they don't offer too much headroom.
 
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I'm not OP...
 
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Don't worry about overclocking the memory, it offers minimal gain. Yes just increase the core clock by 25 mhz at a time and check it its stable by running something that is demanding on the GPU (a benchmark or a few minutes of a graphically intensive game)
 
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haha yeah, silly me. I'm used to just looking at the profile pic to see who it is. Probably should break that habit.
 
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Well I just increased the clock speed to 1200 and the memory to 1700 and it crashed. Im thinking Ill just stick to the clock speeds maybe up just a little bit. There is nothing else I need to do correct? Also any other suggestions for speeding up my boot time? Thats one thing that is really bothering me because I had the same issue a while ago when I switched a part out and I had to move the sata connector to a different one and it increased the boot time noticeably.
 
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1200mhz is pretty good, if your happy with the performance at stock speeds just leave it as is :)

Honestly the only thing I know of that would decrease boot time is a fresh windows install (including formatting your hard drive). Honestly I'm not very knowledgeable on that sort of thing, I just put up with my load times :p
 
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If you want to OC your CPU with an ASRock board, here is a really well explained guide on how to do it with pictures and step by step settings. I used it to OC mine and it works really well.

http://www.overclock.net/t/1198504/complete-overclocking-guide-sandy-bridge-ivy-bridge-asrock-edition/0_30


Don't know how it will effect you boot times, I like to do fresh installs every once in a while to clean things out. Another thing you can try is CCleaner to get rid of a lot of the stuff that may be clogging up your OS. Make sure to run it a few times though and reboot a few times between runs.

http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

You shouldn't need to OC that video card yet, that is a pretty solid performer, but it never hurts to try! :-D Good Luck!
 
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I tried that overclocking guide and thats how I failed. I would do a fresh install however I dont have a copy of windows 7 that I can use because I only have an upgrade disc. I most likely will buy windows 7 soon and then also buy a larger ssd for it and do that all at once.

Hammersmith, I will try unplugging the hdd before boot up but im skeptical that may be the problem. I turned off every startup program except for the essential. I might have 5 things running at startup
 
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It just wouldnt boot up. I think I may have done something wrong or enabled something incorrectly. Im not too worried about overclocking the cpu but a small bump up wouldnt be too bad.
 
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