CF 7850 to 970?

[orangeman2003]

Im gaming at 1080p will I see a good gain?

Im currently playing bf4, arma 3, dayz, gw2

cheers

 

[MasterOC]

Oh yh certainly ... Don't expect something like dayz to get massive improvements as its still suffering from culling issues ( arma 2 fault ) and is entirely dependant on a fast CPU( not that yours is slow) . But your minimum framerates will be a lot higher and games that don't utilize crossfire properly it will be amazingly different ... They where great little cards the 7850s but they're starting to show there age.. My 660 in the HTPC is virtually minimum requirements these days

BF4 would be night and day , less problems with a single card ... And you'd obviosuly have the option of going SLi in the future

 

[Marine-RX179]

Rather than leaving your 2700K at stock, I think you will see very clear frame rate boost if you can overclock it to anything between 4.50GHz-5.00GHz.

 

[MasterOC]

Rather than leaving your 2700K at stock, I think you will see very clear frame rate boost if you can overclock it to anything between 4.50GHz-5.00GHz.

Games really don't benefit from super high clocks unless you CPU is the bottleneck when pushing uber powerful multiple cards which in optimised games it rarely is . I saw no improvement in dayz standalone pushing my 4770k with 2 970s to 4.6

Imo overclocking is not worth it for gaming , benching and rendering is a different matter mind .

 

[Marine-RX179]

Games really don't benefit from super high clocks unless you CPU is the bottleneck when pushing uber powerful multiple cards which in optimised games it rarely is . I saw no improvement in dayz standalone pushing my 4770k with 2 970s to 4.6

Imo overclocking is not worth it for gaming , benching and rendering is a different matter mind .

OP is playing arma 3, dayz, gw2 though, all of which are FAR MORE CPU dependent on than "games in general".

Overclocking CPU would definitely help, but for CPU dependent games, the chances are it wouldn't help 'hugely" (probably increase frame rate by 5fps). However pushing 30fps instead of 25fps would already help a lot in terms of perceived smoothness of the game. You can't realistically expect overclocking the CPU would make a game that's original only pushing 25fps with stock clock to begin with to miraculously suddenly increase to like 45-60fps.

 

[almighty15]

Games really don't benefit from super high clocks unless you CPU is the bottleneck when pushing uber powerful multiple cards which in optimised games it rarely is . I saw no improvement in dayz standalone pushing my 4770k with 2 970s to 4.6

Imo overclocking is not worth it for gaming , benching and rendering is a different matter mind .

What! You're the only person that I know with that view!!

 

[old gamer]

must admit i dont bother overclicking my 3770k much theses days, last time i checked it made no difference whilst gaming, i just set the bios to perfomance and it boosts to 4.1ghz which i find fast enough for my needs

 

[orangeman2003]

Cheers guys for the replies

I use to oc the cpu with the onboard oc genie but only noticed higher temps and no gain in games so put it back to stock. it always worth another check in newer games so thanks for the pointer on the cpu

 

[MasterOC]

What! You're the only person that I know with that view!!

I'm talking about it in terms of the pros and cons ( heat , energy consumption , MHz ) in general terms having 1 frame extra at the expense of higher voltage , higher temps , possible shorter life ( although the lifespan is debatable ) .

What I'm not trying to say is that it's zero help and absolutely pointless . I love overclocking , would never say don't do it . But there's a time n a place and I just don't think its warrented for gaming on for the sake of trading off.

Im certainly not the only person with this opinion and many times it's been shown in certain senarios that overclocking can be pointless .

Bear I mind this is my own opinion and my own opinion if formed in my own experiance . Not saying its 100% full proof but I can say what I see .

 

[OryxBeisa]

Games really don't benefit from super high clocks unless you CPU is the bottleneck when pushing uber powerful multiple cards which in optimised games it rarely is . I saw no improvement in dayz standalone pushing my 4770k with 2 970s to 4.6

Imo overclocking is not worth it for gaming , benching and rendering is a different matter mind .

I agree, never understood the hard-on people get for OC'ing. The difference is usually in the realm of single digits for framerates. I'd much rather lower a setting and enjoy playing than fiddling around for days perfecting an overclock.