Hi,
A friend of mine has an aging system with an i7-860 combined with a Radeon HD 5770 on an Asus P55 chipset motherboard and obviously, this doesn't cut it anymore for gaming. As I have recently built my own pc, I have gained some hardware experience and would like to help him with upgrading his system. He's going to need a better graphics card, but with a more high-end one, his CPU will probably end up bottlenecking during gaming. Therefore I'm planning on getting a Hyper 212 Evo and overclock his processor. I'm thinking about 21x160MHz, because his RAM is DDR3-1600 (even though his CPU doesn't support 1600 out of the box) and this would make it possible to run the RAM at 1600MHz and get the processor up to 3.36 GHz, a pretty minor overclock but still a respectable speed and it will probably work at stock voltage.
Would that be a good overclock and would it be sufficient to run a GTX 760/770?
A friend of mine has an aging system with an i7-860 combined with a Radeon HD 5770 on an Asus P55 chipset motherboard and obviously, this doesn't cut it anymore for gaming. As I have recently built my own pc, I have gained some hardware experience and would like to help him with upgrading his system. He's going to need a better graphics card, but with a more high-end one, his CPU will probably end up bottlenecking during gaming. Therefore I'm planning on getting a Hyper 212 Evo and overclock his processor. I'm thinking about 21x160MHz, because his RAM is DDR3-1600 (even though his CPU doesn't support 1600 out of the box) and this would make it possible to run the RAM at 1600MHz and get the processor up to 3.36 GHz, a pretty minor overclock but still a respectable speed and it will probably work at stock voltage.
Would that be a good overclock and would it be sufficient to run a GTX 760/770?
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