CPU Overclock Help
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h3llfire741
October 15, 2014 11:14:13 PM
I'm pretty much completely new to the idea of overclocking. Just bought a GTX 970 and the bottleneck is really really bad. Getting scores way below what I should be getting with a decent CPU.
So I have two choices, buy a new CPU (I have AMD and would preferably just buy a new mobo + cpu intel combo) or overclock the CPU.
Now there aren't any really good deals that I know of (if someone knows of one, please link it) so my only choice is to overclock atm.
Can anyone give a detailed guide on how to overclock the CPU?
Also how safe is overclocking? Will it reduce the life of the CPU in any way?
Side note: I have a corsair h105 cooling my CPU if that is at all important.
So I have two choices, buy a new CPU (I have AMD and would preferably just buy a new mobo + cpu intel combo) or overclock the CPU.
Now there aren't any really good deals that I know of (if someone knows of one, please link it) so my only choice is to overclock atm.
Can anyone give a detailed guide on how to overclock the CPU?
Also how safe is overclocking? Will it reduce the life of the CPU in any way?
Side note: I have a corsair h105 cooling my CPU if that is at all important.
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h3llfire741
October 15, 2014 11:18:41 PM
i7Baby said:
Post your build. Have you posted this before?No I haven't. For the specs, check the CPU-Z validator sig attached for the to my posts. I just updated right now with my current specs.
Also, here is my Unigine Valley Benchmark scores.
I comared them with a review of this card and they are getting a score of about ~4200 with this card.
I benchmarked with another computer (i5-4670 + EVGA GTX 770 OC) and it got a score of ~3500.
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h3llfire741
October 16, 2014 11:02:46 AM
i7Baby said:
Hmmmm - no power supply! No wonder you don't get good performance.You won't have to OC a FX8150 to get the gtx970 to run flat out.
From Task Manager, what's the max CPU %usage?
Here is my power supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E168...
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h3llfire741
October 16, 2014 4:27:49 PM
i7Baby said:
Seasonic M12II 620 - nice one!From Task Manager, what's the max CPU %usage?
From bios/uefi, what the CPU temp - at idle and while gaming?
Idle temp is about 19C and gaming temp goes to 41C max but usually stays around 34C.
on Dead Rising 3 I saw about 54% usage and on Shadow of Mordor it was around 45%
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h3llfire741
October 16, 2014 6:55:50 PM
h3llfire741
October 16, 2014 7:06:05 PM
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h3llfire741
October 16, 2014 7:30:41 PM
h3llfire741
October 16, 2014 10:47:32 PM
h3llfire741 said:
nikoli707 said:
please run the unigine valley benchmark on the extreme hd preset. unigine valley has virtually no cpu load that will expose a bottleneck.skryim is notoriously cpu intensive, it wants 2 threads going really fast.
Here is Valley Extreme:
yeah something isn't right. 2000 is about the score of a 680/770/7970/280x. my highest valley score with my 780 was 3389 with a rather high 1375mhz core clock. you should be very close or higher than my 780.
what graphics card did you have before?
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/downloads.html
download ddu. let it run the safe mode clean restart recommended for nvidia. if you had an amd gpu in there before you should run it for amd too. then reinstall the latest nvidia drivers and retry the benchmark. at least we can rule out driver conflicts.
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h3llfire741
October 16, 2014 11:00:09 PM
nikoli707 said:
h3llfire741 said:
nikoli707 said:
please run the unigine valley benchmark on the extreme hd preset. unigine valley has virtually no cpu load that will expose a bottleneck.skryim is notoriously cpu intensive, it wants 2 threads going really fast.
Here is Valley Extreme:
yeah something isn't right. 2000 is about the score of a 680/770/7970/280x. my highest valley score with my 780 was 3389 with a rather high 1375mhz core clock. you should be very close or higher than my 780.
what graphics card did you have before?
http://www.wagnardmobile.com/DDU/downloads.html
download ddu. let it run the safe mode clean restart recommended for nvidia. if you had an amd gpu in there before you should run it for amd too. then reinstall the latest nvidia drivers and retry the benchmark. at least we can rule out driver conflicts.
AMD 7870 Black Edition Double Dissipation.
Could it be that I am running it on a 2.0 pcie instead of a 3.0?
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h3llfire741
October 17, 2014 10:29:09 AM
nikoli707 said:
no. pcie lane speed has nothing to do with it. run display driver uninstaller to make sure there are no video driver conflicts.Ran the display driver uninstaller twice in safe mode. Once to clean up AMD, then again to clean up the NVIDIA one. Then restarted in normal mode and installed fresh NVIDIA ones. Re-ran Valley at the same settings and the score is approximately the same.
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