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I have some minor experience in OCing. My 1st gaming rig built in 2007, i OCed the ever living hell out of my Core2Duo 8500 (using CM Hyper 212 Evo) and GTX 260, and it worked great it had a STRONG gpu that way exceeded all expectations and abuse i heaped onto it until i finally had to upgrade.
Built this rig in mid-late 2013
CPU - I5 3570k 3.4 ghz
Mobo - AsRock Z77 Extreme4
GPU - Gigabyte GTX 970
SSD - 240 GB Samsung 840 Series
HDD - 2 TB Seagate Barracuda
Cooler - CM Hyper 212 Evo
Case - Corsair 300R
PSU - CX600M (yea i kinda went cheap here)
Monitor - HP 27 xi, currently gaming at 1080 and might dabble into 4k soon just to see whats up
It was running a used MSI 560 ti TwinFrozr (OCing capability on this one sucked) for a coupla years until i got the GTX 970 last May. The bump in effectiveness was glaring. Currently i'm gaming great, but the last coupla hardcore games i'm running make me think that next year might be the year to make a brand new 1.5k gaming rig (headlined by the GTX 1170 or i'll reuse my 970, and plop the 560ti back into this one). However before i do that, i might as well dabble in OCing again.
I'm wondering the rig as is will competently enter the next generation of gaming. I'm not ultra demanding so there's some time slack. I'm guessing at this point i wonder if heavily OCing the CPU and GPU can squeak me through 2 (or maybe even 3!!!) more years of good quality gaming, sadlyi know i'll be bottlenecked by the cooling/PSU. I'm not the type to go for step by step upgrades (other than the GPU), so i'm pretty much gonna build a new rig from scratch in the future. Should i start saving hard for 1 year or stretch it out for a 2 (3) year timetable? I know i screwed up on not getting a better cooling system and PSU, which will severely limit my OC potential and why i paid extra on the 3570k in the 1st place. I'll def make sure not to make that same mistake on the next build.
So with my current rigs limitations, whats do ya'll think is the heaviest OC i can manage? I've only done CPU/GPU OCs so far, i tried RAM OCing one time on a laptop and it did not have good results (think i burned it out or something, thus i mostly try not to mess with voltage, but i've done so in the past if i have to. I also want to keep the sucker living longer and transitioning into its next life as an office PC for my family business.
Built this rig in mid-late 2013
CPU - I5 3570k 3.4 ghz
Mobo - AsRock Z77 Extreme4
GPU - Gigabyte GTX 970
SSD - 240 GB Samsung 840 Series
HDD - 2 TB Seagate Barracuda
Cooler - CM Hyper 212 Evo
Case - Corsair 300R
PSU - CX600M (yea i kinda went cheap here)
Monitor - HP 27 xi, currently gaming at 1080 and might dabble into 4k soon just to see whats up
It was running a used MSI 560 ti TwinFrozr (OCing capability on this one sucked) for a coupla years until i got the GTX 970 last May. The bump in effectiveness was glaring. Currently i'm gaming great, but the last coupla hardcore games i'm running make me think that next year might be the year to make a brand new 1.5k gaming rig (headlined by the GTX 1170 or i'll reuse my 970, and plop the 560ti back into this one). However before i do that, i might as well dabble in OCing again.
I'm wondering the rig as is will competently enter the next generation of gaming. I'm not ultra demanding so there's some time slack. I'm guessing at this point i wonder if heavily OCing the CPU and GPU can squeak me through 2 (or maybe even 3!!!) more years of good quality gaming, sadlyi know i'll be bottlenecked by the cooling/PSU. I'm not the type to go for step by step upgrades (other than the GPU), so i'm pretty much gonna build a new rig from scratch in the future. Should i start saving hard for 1 year or stretch it out for a 2 (3) year timetable? I know i screwed up on not getting a better cooling system and PSU, which will severely limit my OC potential and why i paid extra on the 3570k in the 1st place. I'll def make sure not to make that same mistake on the next build.
So with my current rigs limitations, whats do ya'll think is the heaviest OC i can manage? I've only done CPU/GPU OCs so far, i tried RAM OCing one time on a laptop and it did not have good results (think i burned it out or something, thus i mostly try not to mess with voltage, but i've done so in the past if i have to. I also want to keep the sucker living longer and transitioning into its next life as an office PC for my family business.
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