A while back when i upgraded my system I went with the 8120 because of the 8-cores for editing purposes. Now my system has become more of a gaming rig but I do stream to Twitch with OBS.
I noticed that there are some games where other people who have systems that no where compare to mine get better performance or performance that is par with mine. My issue comes from me trying to overclock my CPU over 3.8Ghz. I have a Corsair H100 and never normally see my processor ever go higher than about 35C on load. I have been able to get the clock as high as 4.5 and have windows still start but normally it will crash within a few minutes or if i try to run a game or program in general. It will give me a BSOD with the error message "there was a clock interrupt on a secondary processor".
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 Rev 01. i believe and i just upgraded not long ago from 2 GTX 460 1GB Fermi's in SLI to a single AMD Radeon 7950 HD 3GB thinking i would see a performance difference, but there was really no noticeable difference in the games i have played.
Idk if my CPU can somehow be bottlenecking my performance or if I just need a higher clock but a lot of games like torchlight 2 that my system should demolish i get on the lowest settings maybe between 30-60. Whereas a friend of mine who only has an intel I3 and a GTX 550 sits on high settings above 100 consistently. Then games like L4D2 another friend runs a single gtx 460 and my system gets about 60 frames less overall on the same settings. So I am not sure why my performance seems to be outmatch by lower end system and if my CPU is at blame or if my CPU is faulty because I cannot clock any higher than 3.8 without crashing
I noticed that there are some games where other people who have systems that no where compare to mine get better performance or performance that is par with mine. My issue comes from me trying to overclock my CPU over 3.8Ghz. I have a Corsair H100 and never normally see my processor ever go higher than about 35C on load. I have been able to get the clock as high as 4.5 and have windows still start but normally it will crash within a few minutes or if i try to run a game or program in general. It will give me a BSOD with the error message "there was a clock interrupt on a secondary processor".
My motherboard is a Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5 Rev 01. i believe and i just upgraded not long ago from 2 GTX 460 1GB Fermi's in SLI to a single AMD Radeon 7950 HD 3GB thinking i would see a performance difference, but there was really no noticeable difference in the games i have played.
Idk if my CPU can somehow be bottlenecking my performance or if I just need a higher clock but a lot of games like torchlight 2 that my system should demolish i get on the lowest settings maybe between 30-60. Whereas a friend of mine who only has an intel I3 and a GTX 550 sits on high settings above 100 consistently. Then games like L4D2 another friend runs a single gtx 460 and my system gets about 60 frames less overall on the same settings. So I am not sure why my performance seems to be outmatch by lower end system and if my CPU is at blame or if my CPU is faulty because I cannot clock any higher than 3.8 without crashing