Do any games perform better if you can go beyond 4.5Ghz overclock?

towlie · Apr 17, 2013

I recently built this system, and my main games I play are World of Warcraft and Star Wars The Old Republic. I am interested in trying out various other types of games.

3570k @ 4.5Ghz
sabertooth z77
32gb g.skill ripjaws z 1866
ocz vertex 4 128GB x2
Asus Titan PCI Express 3.0
Cooler Master HAF X 942
Cooler Master Silent Pro 1200w
Thermaltake Water 2.0 Extreme 81.3 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler
27" IPS LED CrystalPro Monitor WQHD 2560x1440

I am still waiting on the titan card and the monitor to deliver, so I haven't seen how well wow and swtor will perform with this system, and I do plan to overclock the titan. Would I see any potential performance gain by having a higher clocked ivy bridge cpu? and if so what is the highest possible speed to see performance increase and with what specific games?

I figure my only option to get a higher clock is going to be via changing them out till I find a cherry cpu and if 4.5Ghz is already faster or at least as fast as I could possibly need then there is no reason to strive for a higher overclocked cpu.

Roland Of Gilead · Apr 17, 2013

towlie :

Firstly, wow on your system. I could only dream of playing my games on it

I'd say it will be an absolute beast to go, when the Titan arrives. To answer your question as best I can...OC your cpu beyond what it's already at, will return negligable performance increase for FPS in most games. Yes, you may have a slight increase, but with your CPU at that speed, your already maxing out the data requirements for the Titan. At 4.5 gigs you have enough CPU grunt to run two or maybe even three Titans. So swapping out for a new CPU (cherry picked or not) will not be much different than what you will have already. If I were you, Id be happy to play all games maxed out on a beautiful monitor, with an amazing system. Enjoy!!

Zooshooter · Apr 17, 2013

towlie :

I'm not sure about SWTOR but WoW is a processor-bound game in that the graphics card OC or upgrades won't provide particularly large performance increases, it'll just make it look prettier. OC'ing higher than what you have now won't gain you a really noticeable increase in WoW either. I play my 3570K at stock speeds and can pretty much max out the graphics without any framerate lag. Network lag on the other hand...

Any projected performance increases are really going to depend on what games you're looking to play. If you can offer up a list of prospective games you'll probably get much more accurate answers.

ubercake · Apr 17, 2013

You don't have to OC anything with that setup. You'd only get a slight bottleneck running at lower resolutions (which you obviously aren't) or playing older single-core geared games like the GTA series (at least through IV).

Since you're running at higher than 1080p, there's no bottleneck for most titles produced within the last couple of years.

I wouldn't even bother OCing that system. For just gaming, OCing is not worth the risk unless you're trying to break personal synthetic benchmark records. You've paid the big bucks for good performance. You're not in a situation where you have to try to squeak the last bit of performance out of less expensive equipment to get decent gaming performance. You have the good stuff.

geofelt · Apr 17, 2013

I doubt that you will do much better past 4.5.
But, who knows?
One way to test that question is to reduce your OC from 4.5 to 4.3 and test using your games.
If you perform noticeably worse with less compute power, you might assume that an added 0.2 might be worth it.

If your games can use more than 4 threads(very few can), then you could try a 3770K, or even a 6 core ivy bridge-E.

phil_livesey · Apr 17, 2013

The processor doesn't do any where near the amount of work the graphics card does, so no. Also, hyper threading doesn't make much of a difference just to put that out there.
You've spent a lot of money on that system though, so i'd get some good games to accompany it.

iyzik · Apr 17, 2013

I would say no, not past 4.5GHz. I have a 3770K @ 4.5 I used to have it at 4.7 but I actually found it performed better once I decreased it to 4.5 as it was more stable.
Generally with one card there really isn't a big need to overclock intels flagship chips anyway. I only overclocked because the stock clock speed was having trouble driving my crossfire 7970s. But @ 4.5GHz it can pin them both at 100% load (though it never needs to lol).

So yeah I would say not really necessary at all unless it bottlenecks (doubt it).

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