Overclocking - What do I need?

dancook

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Ok I will be trying to work this out myself, but if anyone is able to through their two cents in, it would help me in leaps and bounds.

The kit.

2600K
Asus P8P67 Pro
2 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit
Asus GTX 480
Radeon HD 4870

So far...

I have tried usign the Asus 'Smartdoctor?' to overclock the nvidia card - but after reboot I think it loses the settings.

I've been reading up about the CPU and overclocking on this motherboard - some things say just up the turbo multiplier - but when I do this it only lets me go up to 42 which says the target cpu speed is 4.2ghz. The auto turbo clock software doesn't appear to do much either.

I need to squeeze as much out of this machine as I can, because my demanding applications running choppy at the moment. It might be to do with the speed of memory, so I though I might look at overclocking that too!

So if anyone has any advice about overclocking the cpu, memory, vcard(s?). I'd be greatly appreciative.

cheers
 
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Dump smart doctor and Use MSI Afterburner, plenty on the google to help you configure etc.

As for the cpu etc I can't comment as I don't have this combo.
 
gazzer_21 said:
What or how many demanding apps are you running that a 2600K is having problems running ?
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I am running five copies of world of warcraft simultaneously. Each at 1920x1200 with settings fairly high on four and ultra on one.

I believe loading textures is the bottleneck.

I going to swap the monitors on the graphics cards so that the GTX480 is powering four copies on the secondary monitor. And the HD4870 concentrates on just the main. However I don't think this will resolve the issue on it's own, both cards individually have coped previously with all five - I'm just trying to optimise them at higher graphic setting.

My goal is to achieve smooth gameplay is crowded cities, gameplay where it actually matters is fine (dungeons, and the rest of the gaming world)
 
You're welcome.

It's important to get the CPU stable at stock RAM settings. Once you have that sorted, you can start to tweak the RAM and GFX.
 
I feel like such an idiot, I've only gone and bought a 2600, not 2600k.

The question is, do I live with it? ..grr

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I actually overclocked the cpu to target 4200mhz, it only reaches 4000...

However there is a silver lining, because my game is running brilliantly.... not sure what did it in the end - upgraded bios, overclocked cpu, got rid of asus software and installed msi burner - overclocked the nvidia.. and now it's good
 
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