Overclocking my bottleneck

[terminus]

I don't know much about OC, but I heard it would be best to overclock the bottleneck hardware in the PC. So I was wondering which piece of hardware in my desktop would be the potential bottleneck?

Silverstone Raven RV01 (full-tower 90 degress ATX)
Asus P6t X58 MOBO
Intel Core i7 920 (4x2.66GHz) I heard this auto-overclocks?
Cooler Master V8
Corsair Dominator 6GB DDR3 1600MHz
Nvidia GTX 275
Velociraptor 150GB 10,000rpm HDD + 500GB 7200rpm HDD
800w PSU

 

[jedimasterben]

You don't necessarily have to worry about bottlenecks with that system. What resolution will you be playing at?

And the Corei7 will automatically adjust the clock speed by two steps (the multiplier) when it detects that an application is only using a single processing core, so applications should see a benefit from it.

 

[terminus]

You don't necessarily have to worry about bottlenecks with that system. What resolution will you be playing at?

And the Corei7 will automatically adjust the clock speed by two steps (the multiplier) when it detects that an application is only using a single processing core, so applications should see a benefit from it.

most likely 1650x1050-1920x1200.

So lets say if I use an app that is only single-core or dual-core compatible, the 2.66GHz will automatically multiply?

 

[cjl]

Yes, though only a bit. If you are using a single core app, it will go as high as 2.93GHz, or for multi core, it will go up to 2.8. If you want to overclock it, you could get it quite a bit higher than that.

 

[terminus]

for hardware-intensive games, what would be the bottleneck?

 

[cjl]

It depends on the game. In most cases, it would be graphics though.

 

[terminus]

would the i7 ever bottleneck the GPU? or vice versa?

 

[jedimasterben]

Yes, on some games there will always be a bottleneck somewhere. But if you're getting 70+ FPS, then there's really no need to go higher (unless you love bigger numbers ).

 

[terminus]

Yes, on some games there will always be a bottleneck somewhere. But if you're getting 70+ FPS, then there's really no need to go higher (unless you love bigger numbers ).

How about games like Crysis or Clear Sky where I get like 25-30FPS, would the CPU, Ram, or GPU be a bottleneck?

 

[mindless728]

more than likely GPU bottleneck