10600K & 3080, worth overclocking cpu?

champ222 · 13 Feb 2023 at 19:58

Hi All

I have a 10600kf that ive been using with a 3060ti or a 3070. Iven been pretty happy with performance.

I'm now using a 3080 at 1440p on a 165hz monitor. I think i might be cpu limited. For example, in warzone 2, my settings are tuned for frames per second. I get around 140 ish frames per second it doesnt seem to matter much, if at all, if i run with dlss on or off. Even if i set high performance on dlss, frames dont really increase, it just looks bad.

Cpu is running at stock. Ram is 16gb at 3200Mhz lpx vengeance.

Its been years since ive overclocked, so i have plenty of reading to do which will take time... is it worth the effort here? Will i need faster ram to make the most difference?

Case is a meshlicious, cpu is cooled by an 240mm EK AIO.

Thanks

champ222 · 14 Feb 2023 at 00:20

I have another PC with the following specs:

5600X
16GB 3000Mhz RAM
3070
1080p

I also hit a fps "wall" in warzone 2 at around 137 fps average. This is fine, since my monitor is only 144Hz anyway. but nothing makes it any faster. DLSS has no positive effect, even changing render resolution to something stupid low, doesnt seem to make any difference to FPS.

maybe thats just the way the game is.

maybe this would be better in the COD thread

champ222 · 14 Feb 2023 at 10:06

Joxeon said:
Warzone likes fast ram so if you can overclock that to 3600mhz on ryzen or 4000mhz on intel then it should give you a nice boost, I would also try and overclock the 10600k core and cache ratio.

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I will check that out, thanks. Incidentally, the MSI ITX board in the sponsor slot of that video, is the board i have.

I assume i'd need new ram? overclocking 3200Mhz ram to 4000Mhz, is a tall order no?

champ222 · 14 Feb 2023 at 11:30

LuckyBenski said:
Run Task Manager or MSI afterburner or similar, get some graphs going under load. Play the game a little and then check to see whether it's CPU or GPU that's maxed out. This would be a good starting point.

Does this help?

champ222 · 14 Feb 2023 at 13:11

Thanks

Thats what i was wondering, is it worth the effort (research and testing) if it isnt going to make a huge difference, perhaps not, it wont make me any better at COD sadly :cry:

Its 2 8 gig sticks. Ive tried overclocking the ram to see if that makes any difference. I cant get much of an increase before it crashes, so unsure if it will make much difference at all. maybe i'll keep an eye out for a used ram kit thats faster.
A CPU upgrade is likely expensive, and its really just more cores in 10th/11th Gen which wont help me.

It is what it is.

Thanks guys

champ222 · 14 Feb 2023 at 14:30

Yeah i'll stick with it for now.

I could improve things a bit by putting the 3080 with the 5600X from the other PC, but that is a royal faff as i dont think i have the intel fittings for the cooler thats on that one. It probably wont be too long before i will be using one PC only. at that stage it'll be worth selling them both off and building a new system from scratch.

champ222 · 15 Feb 2023 at 10:22

So i did some testing with the other PC. 5600X, 3070, 16GB of 3000MHz RAM.

i managed to increase the ram speed to 3333 stable enough to do some testing (i didnt change any voltages as i dont know what i'm doing without some reading) any more, then i got crashes. I went into warzone and immediately noticed a pretty decent increase in FPS. It was a solo game, with only 51 players in, so i wondered if that was skewing the results. I set it back to stock speeds and when running around on the map, i was back to 130 fps ish. Tried it at 3333 again, and say a similar increase in a fully occupied match.

i might try and pick up a 16gb kit of 3600 CL16 and see what effect that has. I can test it in the intel system too and see if that helps there.

I also deduced that the benchmark built into COD is a bit of a waste of time. The RAM speed adjustments barely made any difference to the figures displayed, the run to run variance had more impact. Yet there was a noticeable increase in game. it doesnt seem particularly indicative of warzone or multiplayer performance.

I also tried some multiplayer. I usually cap the FPS at 140Hz (144hz monitor) as i hate tearing, but i moved the cap up to 200Hz during BR testing and it was still set like that in multiplayer i was getting over 200fps. it seems the tearing is much less jarring on a 144Hz monitor than it is on a 60Hz monitor. It felt pretty good. i might keep it like this for a while.

I'll do some more testing at some point.