Hello all!
My system: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 rev1.0 (recently updated bios), i7 930 (2.8ghz) with coolermaster N520, Corsair Dominator GT 6GB CMT6GX3M3A2000C8 (running at stock 1066mhz 8-8-8-20-1T 1.5V), 2x WD caviar black 500gb in raid 0, 850w corsair psu, corsair 800D case, gpu XFX HD5870 (1GB) and a Creative hd soundcard on PCI-express slot. Running windows 7 64bit. I own this system for abit over a year now (I replaced the ram this January though, upgrating from older corsair XMS3 6GB 9-9-9-24 1600mhz).
My wish is to improve my system's performance generally without spending money (although i consider buying a sata 3 SSD at some point). Most of the time I spend on my PC is to play games, sometimes use 3dsmax due to my studies and do everyday stuff. I know that by overclocking my CPU and setting my RAM to higher clocks would give me very little increase in fps in games but I would still like to get the most out of my pc while performing any task (but mostly aiming to increase the minimum fps in games) since up to now I haven't OC'ed it fearing bad consequences but now I am willing to try something.
I was thinking to get to 3.4-3.6Ghz and higher ram speed (around 1600) while keeping the 8-8-8-20-1T if possible. Running prime95 for an hour has shown a steady 65degrees on the first core while the other cores are around 58-60 (i guess thats because of turboboost) when the system is at stock values.
I am not looking for a how-to-do guide as there are so many on this forum and on other sites. I posted this here seeking some opinions as I was wondering if it is worth overclocking to those values and if I will really see a performance increase (in games mostly) as it will take me some time to reach a stable oc at those 3.4-3.6ghz values.
Some additional info that might help you judge my situation: my 3dmark 2011 score is ~4400, MaxxPi2M using 1M gives 1115K/sec and MaxxMEM2M gives 12.5GB/sec (while my older RAM with XMP profile gave 17.5GB/sec).
Thank you in advance of any comments and advice,
Thomas.
My system: Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD5 rev1.0 (recently updated bios), i7 930 (2.8ghz) with coolermaster N520, Corsair Dominator GT 6GB CMT6GX3M3A2000C8 (running at stock 1066mhz 8-8-8-20-1T 1.5V), 2x WD caviar black 500gb in raid 0, 850w corsair psu, corsair 800D case, gpu XFX HD5870 (1GB) and a Creative hd soundcard on PCI-express slot. Running windows 7 64bit. I own this system for abit over a year now (I replaced the ram this January though, upgrating from older corsair XMS3 6GB 9-9-9-24 1600mhz).
My wish is to improve my system's performance generally without spending money (although i consider buying a sata 3 SSD at some point). Most of the time I spend on my PC is to play games, sometimes use 3dsmax due to my studies and do everyday stuff. I know that by overclocking my CPU and setting my RAM to higher clocks would give me very little increase in fps in games but I would still like to get the most out of my pc while performing any task (but mostly aiming to increase the minimum fps in games) since up to now I haven't OC'ed it fearing bad consequences but now I am willing to try something.
I was thinking to get to 3.4-3.6Ghz and higher ram speed (around 1600) while keeping the 8-8-8-20-1T if possible. Running prime95 for an hour has shown a steady 65degrees on the first core while the other cores are around 58-60 (i guess thats because of turboboost) when the system is at stock values.
I am not looking for a how-to-do guide as there are so many on this forum and on other sites. I posted this here seeking some opinions as I was wondering if it is worth overclocking to those values and if I will really see a performance increase (in games mostly) as it will take me some time to reach a stable oc at those 3.4-3.6ghz values.
Some additional info that might help you judge my situation: my 3dmark 2011 score is ~4400, MaxxPi2M using 1M gives 1115K/sec and MaxxMEM2M gives 12.5GB/sec (while my older RAM with XMP profile gave 17.5GB/sec).
Thank you in advance of any comments and advice,
Thomas.
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