Bottleneck Issues - Considering Overclocking 1090T

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System Specs:

- AMD Phenom II 1090T 3.2GHZ
- ASRock 970 Extreme 3
- NVIDIA EVGA 2GB GeForce GTX 770
- Thermaltake TR2 TRX 650W
- Hyper 212 EVO Fan/Heat sink

I recently upgraded from an ATI Radeon 6970 to a GeForce GTX 770 and am experienced wretched frame rates in most games. I have basically come to the conclusion that I have a bottleneck issue - and am considering overclocking to 3.8 Ghz.

Two things - I've read most of the guides on OC'ing and it's confusing as hell. I've been in PC's for a long time - but have never dabbled with overclocking. Honestly, I don't want to fool with it but I don't really have a choice - I can't really afford to upgrade otherwise I would just do that. Am I majorly risking my components? Do I have to alter my RAM's voltage? Some guides say yes - and others don't mention anything about it.

Also - theoretically - would clocking up to 3.8 eliminate my bottleneck issues?

And lastly - does anyone have experience overclocking with a similar setup?

Thanks in advance :)

Kelsey
 
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To be honest it should not bottleneck to the level its causing sluttering. Bottleneck means either CPU or GPU is running at its 100% but the other one is not giving its full potential. Frame rates don't slutter in that case. At least not in a 1090T. That thing is six core phenom and it should be able to take a GTX 770.

And yeah if its black edition 3.8 GHz are nothing. Try to get as high as you can on stock voltage and if needed, just slightly raise it to hit 3.8.
It should easily hit it without the need to screw with vcore.
 
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Thanks for the reply. I also didn't think that it would be bottlenecking. My previous card, the 6970, slaughtered most games with this exact processor. I'm truly confused at why I'm getting poor performance. I've troubleshot this thing for days without any result.

The only thing I have left to try is using four molex connectors for my video card, opposed to 2 molex and 1 modular cable directly to the PSU. I'm just waiting to get the other molex connector in the mail - but I wouldn't think that would be a problem. Just another last ditch effort before overclocking.
 
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I thought the same thing too until a 3DMark test showed that mine performed almost identically with others of similar configurations.

The only thing I can guess is certain games are conflicting with this processor/GPU? Lord of the Rings Online -> 8 to 16 FPS. Even when I disable most settings - still getting issues.
 
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