- Feb 24, 2014
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I have a rather old pc (about 5-6 years old) i recently thought about making it faster but as it seems my CPU still is top notch so i only changed my graphics card to a r9 280x.
Rig:
i7 920
p6t v2 Deluxe Mainboard
6 GB Ram (OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 1333MHz)
r9 280x OC (vapor-x)
BIOS Settings:
AI Tweaker Manual
x20
BClK 166
DRam DDR3 1331
Speedstep and Boost Disabled
Every other Setting is on Auto or standard
(That does mean that Voltage is not changed right?)
So i thought it would be a good idea to overclock the CPU a little bit (my tower has 5 fans, my CPU has an arctic cooling fan with arctic silver compound).
So i started reading into overclocking but didnt want to go too far so i decided to go for about 3.33 or below Ghz.
Still i am rather new to this so maybe someone could check if my values are normal. I am especially concerned about the NB-Frequency which is about 2650 which seems rather high?
I am just now testing it witih games that are very demanding and now i am running Prime 95.
CPU
30 Celsius idle
between 58 and 62 Celsisus with Prime95 running.
about 44 when playing new games
GPU:
28 Celsius idle about 61 Celsius Load
I hope somebody is willing too help me.
EDIT:
Something i have to add:
I dont know now what the Ram mhz was before but the increase in performance is way too good to be true? Did i do something horribly wrong? For example Witcher 2 on almost highest settings without Uebersampling was having FPS drops before - now its constant 60-80 it seems like a 20-30% increase in performance from going from 2.66 stock to 3.317 mhz or is it simply that my CPU was such an extreme bottleneck for the r9 280x ?
Rig:
i7 920
p6t v2 Deluxe Mainboard
6 GB Ram (OCZ DDR3 PC3-10666 1333MHz)
r9 280x OC (vapor-x)
BIOS Settings:
AI Tweaker Manual
x20
BClK 166
DRam DDR3 1331
Speedstep and Boost Disabled
Every other Setting is on Auto or standard
(That does mean that Voltage is not changed right?)
So i thought it would be a good idea to overclock the CPU a little bit (my tower has 5 fans, my CPU has an arctic cooling fan with arctic silver compound).
So i started reading into overclocking but didnt want to go too far so i decided to go for about 3.33 or below Ghz.
Still i am rather new to this so maybe someone could check if my values are normal. I am especially concerned about the NB-Frequency which is about 2650 which seems rather high?
I am just now testing it witih games that are very demanding and now i am running Prime 95.
CPU
30 Celsius idle
between 58 and 62 Celsisus with Prime95 running.
about 44 when playing new games
GPU:
28 Celsius idle about 61 Celsius Load
I hope somebody is willing too help me.
EDIT:
Something i have to add:
I dont know now what the Ram mhz was before but the increase in performance is way too good to be true? Did i do something horribly wrong? For example Witcher 2 on almost highest settings without Uebersampling was having FPS drops before - now its constant 60-80 it seems like a 20-30% increase in performance from going from 2.66 stock to 3.317 mhz or is it simply that my CPU was such an extreme bottleneck for the r9 280x ?
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