Overclocking made things slower?

[diablo24life]

i overclocked my fx 4100 to 4.2 ghz, ran prime 95 for 24 hours with no errors. yet my FPS dropped in games? why is this? plus with passmark it said i got 5000 for a score and at stock cpu clock speeds i get 4200. passmark notices more peformance but gaming drops FPS, any ideas how to fix this?

 

[alvine]

whats your complete system specs

 

[Dogsnake]

FPS is not usually related to CPU bandwidth unless the CPU was being bottle necked at stock speed. It is more often a GPU issue. Some games do put more emphasis on the CPU than others (Skyrim is a good example of a CPU intensive game). FPS however can be affected by a number of things depending on the game and system. Please list your system specs, games you are seeing this in and any other info. you think is important.

 

[diablo24life]

FPS is not usually related to CPU bandwidth unless the CPU was being bottle necked at stock speed. It is more often a GPU issue. Some games do put more emphasis on the CPU than others (Skyrim is a good example of a CPU intensive game). FPS however can be affected by a number of things depending on the game and system. Please list your system specs, games you are seeing this in and any other info. you think is important.

fx 4100
biostar 880g am3+ motherboard
4gb corsair xms3 1600 mhz ram
XFX radeon hd 6790 single fan gpu
windows 7 64 bit

and the fps drop happens in skyrim

 

[billj214]

In some cases the CPU has a sweet spot, there has been numerous articles showing the performance drop at specific frequencies. Also I have seen where the stock clocks were not the optimal setting and a 10% increase was the optimal setting. I don't think this is the issue with newer CPU's like Sandy Bridge but older chips had this issue.

 

[diablo24life]

ok. i have my cpu at stock speeds now, but i want to increase it again/ im going to try for 4.4 ghz how much should i bump up the vcore? the base vcore is 1.35
also do i need to tamper with the HT voltages or northbridge?

 

[Dogsnake]

Sorry I am not experienced with AMD cpu. I do not know if they feature a throttle back that needs to be disabled. Perhaps you should repost in the OC AMD section for adive on the best way to max it. GL