4890

[simonhutchin322]

seems sluggish, played left 4 dead 2 tonight fps seems to be pretty bad, could it have anything to do with the new cat drivers? i play L4D 2 max settings at 1680by1050 on a quad core system with 4gb of ram and running on win 7 64bit, what cat settings would you guys recommend ?

 

[theforce]

A more detailed description of your system would help, like your CPU and if it is overclocked and what about your PSU?

 

[Clairvoyant]

L4D2 used to run fine on mine @ 1920x1200

 

[Strawberry]

I'll try Left 4 Dead 2 on my rig sometime and compare. My gaming resolution is 1920x1080.

 

[Ritsugamesh]

I play l4d2 on my system and something interesting I found was that my system was cpu limited by the game, despite being a highly o/ced dual core. You can see where I have exited the program after play by the drop on the cpu.

I'm not sure what was causing it, but in my more recent games I have no problems. This happened on the Parish campaign and as you can see my 4890 is not at maximum load, playing at maximum settings 8xAA at 1920x1200.

 

[simonhutchin322]

my system is:

Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 "Energy Efficient SLACR 95W Edition" 2.40GHz (1066FSB) - Retail
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard
GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) DDR2 PC2-6400C4 800MHz Ultra Low Latency Dual Channel (GX22GB6400UDC)
Corsair HX 520W ATX Modular SLI Compliant Power Supply (CMPSU-520HXUK)
SAPPHIRE ATI RADEON HD 4890 VAPO 1GB

everything is at stock settings, looking at what rits has found is it worth my while overclocking ?

 

[theforce]

Overclock that Q6600 to something like 3.2Ghz. It should be easily doable. If you haven't overclocked before you should do a bit of reading up before attempting anything

 

[simonhutchin322]

I've only got a stock cooler for the cpu, is their any guides or advice ?

 

[C64]

I wouldn't push too far on a stock cooler well worth investing in a decent cooler first.Yea there's stickie guides in the overclocking section on the forum.
If you are after a cheap as possible cooler I'd recommend this one http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-AR&groupid=701&catid=57&subcat=1395

 

[Marine-RX179]

Your Q6600 should be able to reach 3.0GHz at stock voltage (as in no need to increase vcore), so it shouldn't get too much hotter than it already is.

And you motherboard is a decent enough board, but P35 board would still not be as good a Core2Quad overclocker comparing to P45 boards. With that said, 3.2GHz should still be easily doable on yours, unlike me having to wrestle with the nforce chip.

 

[simonhutchin322]

tryed at stock voltage and even changed the voltage tryed 333mhz and my system wont boot up, it will restart twice then go back 166 mhz ?

 

[Marine-RX179]

tryed at stock voltage and even changed the voltage tryed 333mhz and my system wont boot up, it will restart twice then go back 166 mhz ?

have you disabled the usual stuffs like C1E, Executive Disable Bit, hardware virtualisation, Speedstep (EIST) etc?

Oh, and try to not link the memory FSB with the CPU for now...cause it might be the memory/RAMs that are failing to overclock which leading to the PC fail to boot, not the CPU...

I think I read someone saying GeIL's memory don't overclock too well...I don't own any so I can verify it true or not.

Also, what multipler you using? 9?