Should I OC my i5 4690k or gtx 970 or both?

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muntaser13

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I'm trying to pull out more performance for gaming out of my rig I built a little over a year ago.
I've been playing Elder Scrolls online and my fps would drop down to 25-40 fps and it's pretty frustrating.
My build is,
i5 4690k stock cooler
NZXT s340 with max case fans inside.
evga gtx 970
Asrock H97M mobo
8 gb of ddr3 1600 ram
and my Psu is either EVGA 650 or 750 watt 80+bronze
I just feel that those frames are pretty low for what I have.
I looked at my Geforce experience settings and it says I can optimize it by setting the resolution to 2715x1527 DSR, so it will scale down to my screen resolution.
I'm trying to get a solid 50-60 fps while I'm mostly anywhere, except crowded places like siege battles or whatever..
I'm kinda new to overclocking so i'm not sure If I should just go to my bios and have it automatically do it for me or just do it myself.
I'm also considering turning all my fans to max at all times because I don't really care about the noise it makes since i'm wearing a headset.
 
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TechyInAZ
For the CPU overclocking, you can't. You paired a H97 motherboard with a unlocked CPU. YOU NEED a Z97 (or Z87...) motherboard to overclock an unlocked CPU. Plus, you need better cooling for overclocking.

As for the GPU, you can overclock it without a problem. I suggest looking up some overclocking guides on youtube!

I don't recommend using geforce experience if your picky about frame rates. It's best if you learn all the graphical details yourself and figure out which ones you prefer and don't prefer and lower the ones appropriate to your desires. However if you really want to use geforce expereince, go into the application and adjust the slider for your specific game towards the "performance" end of the line.
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For the CPU overclocking, you can't. You paired a H97 motherboard with a unlocked CPU. YOU NEED a Z97 (or Z87...) motherboard to overclock an unlocked CPU. Plus, you need better cooling for overclocking.

As for the GPU, you can overclock it without a problem. I suggest looking up some overclocking guides on youtube!

I don't recommend using geforce experience if your picky about frame rates. It's best if you learn all the graphical details yourself and figure out which ones you prefer and don't prefer and lower the ones appropriate to your desires. However if you really want to use geforce expereince, go into the application and adjust the slider for your specific game towards the "performance" end of the line.
 
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If you have a 1080 monitor play at 1080 rez, DSR does improve image quality a little but it's seldom worth the FPS impact.
Grab and install MSI Afterburner and use it to monitor CPU and GPU use ingame, ideally both should be very high but I'm not sure if the Skyrim Engine is fully multi threaded, so it may show heavy use of only 2 cores, with light use of the other pair, if you see a clear imbalance it indicates one is holding back the other.
For example if you see CPU at 95% but only 50% on the GPU it suggests the CPU is holding things up and needs to be overclocked or upgraded, if you see 50% CPU and 95% GPU the reverse is true and you need to either lower the graphics settings or OC the GPU-or upgrade to something more powerful.

Bear in mind games like Skyrim can be extremely hard on the CPU in busy places!
 
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