Safe Overclock Radeon 6850?

[jwhack]

I have a MSI Radeon 6850-PM2D1GD5 Dual Fan graphics card and i need help overclocking. I have MSI Afterburner installed but i aint sure what to set it to. I have been told my graphics card is bottle necked as i only have a 2.8 dual core processor does this mean overclocking wont work?. I am just trying to get a few more fps out of a game i play to try reduce lag issues.

 

[saint19]

The "problem" in this case is the CPU, you can try to overclock the CPU but we need to know 1st the full specs of your rig. Motherboard, CPU, RAM, GPU and PSU.

 

[jwhack]

Thanks for reply my specs at the moment are currently:

Motherboard: P8Z68V-LX
Graphics: MSI Radeon 6850-PM2D1GD5 Dual Fan
Ram: 4GB DDR3
PSU: Corsair CX500
Hard Drive: OZC Agility 3 SSD
CPU: Intel 2.8ghz Dual Core
Case: Zalman Z11

 

[saint19]

Could you install CPU-Z and let us know the exact model of your CPU? Since you have a Z68 chipset, I see a lot of options including overclock.

 

[Whomp]

Its a Intel G840 2.8 Intel Sandy Bridge 1155. I checked around and people saying that series of CPU is locked? i also seen a few people mention FSB as i have no multiplier in the bios so i aint sure if theres a way to overclock the CPU with this setup. I get around 40 temp idle on the CPU as the case has 5 fans x 2 fans on the GPU x PSU. At the moment i have the bios set to Performance but was wondering if it could go up to maybe 3.0 or 3.1 with my temps etc.

http://imgur.com/PYImFbm

 

[saint19]

I think that you would see a very good performance increase replacing the current CPU for an Intel i5-3570k or similar, you can upgrade GPU later.

 

[Whomp]

Thanks, yea could really do with a new one but as i ain't got the money at the moment that's why i wanted to try overclock. My next upgrade will be a CPU. How my performance do you think i am loosing on my GPU because of the CPU?

 

[saint19]

I could not say that exactly since that is almost impossible to know since all components performs different. I would say that you are loosing a good percent in performance...

 

[Whomp]

Ah damn thought so. Guess i will stick to the Asus Performance setting in bios till i get a new CPU. Thanks for the help.