Hey I'm not sure if this is the right place to post this, but Overclocking is the desired result, so I suppose so!
Recently upgraded from a pair of 8800GTS in SLi (they rocked) to a GTX 570. Immediately I notice I can run the few games I couldn't max before at max.
However I seem to be vastly underperforming in benchmarks. In Heaven 2.5 I am getting less than half of what I've seen others post. I knew my Q6600 would be a bottleneck but I didn't think it would be this significant. I also believe my RAM is only 800MHz.
I will upgrade the rest of my rig to suit my card more, but that won't be for 6 months or so. In the meantime I'm wondering what the biggest bottleneck I'm facing is. I've also found that in CPU-Z screenshots other people seem to have significantly different (higher) clock speeds than me on their Q6600, like double. I know they are overclocked but see from the screenshot below it seems slow even for stock.
To be honest it's only the benchmarks I'm struggling on, as I play 1920x1080 it can still run everything I've wished to play at max settings, but I'm concerned if there's something I can do to improve performance for when I can't (I'm looking at you BF3). I've tried some of the motherboard's (ASUS P5N-D) built in overclocking on the CPU but it seemed to slow things down when I put it to even 2600MHz, and higher than that and I get stuck at a "Detecting array..." boot message.
Basically is there anything I can do to improve performance before my upgrade in a few months time? Any overclocking attempts I've made have failed miserably, like I'm doing something fundamentally wrong.
Thanks for any feedback. ^^
Lee
Recently upgraded from a pair of 8800GTS in SLi (they rocked) to a GTX 570. Immediately I notice I can run the few games I couldn't max before at max.
However I seem to be vastly underperforming in benchmarks. In Heaven 2.5 I am getting less than half of what I've seen others post. I knew my Q6600 would be a bottleneck but I didn't think it would be this significant. I also believe my RAM is only 800MHz.
I will upgrade the rest of my rig to suit my card more, but that won't be for 6 months or so. In the meantime I'm wondering what the biggest bottleneck I'm facing is. I've also found that in CPU-Z screenshots other people seem to have significantly different (higher) clock speeds than me on their Q6600, like double. I know they are overclocked but see from the screenshot below it seems slow even for stock.
To be honest it's only the benchmarks I'm struggling on, as I play 1920x1080 it can still run everything I've wished to play at max settings, but I'm concerned if there's something I can do to improve performance for when I can't (I'm looking at you BF3). I've tried some of the motherboard's (ASUS P5N-D) built in overclocking on the CPU but it seemed to slow things down when I put it to even 2600MHz, and higher than that and I get stuck at a "Detecting array..." boot message.
Basically is there anything I can do to improve performance before my upgrade in a few months time? Any overclocking attempts I've made have failed miserably, like I'm doing something fundamentally wrong.
Thanks for any feedback. ^^
Lee
