As you can see i run an olx x58 system, i upgraded to an X5660 a few years ago for £50 and wow its a beast, i run it with a small overclock to 3.7ghz, did that just last week and it feels so much faster in day to day use. ANYWAY I have been getting the upgrade itch and was thinking of grabbing a ryzen 7 2700x or similar, do you think this will be a decent bump in performance for me? I have doubts because i rarely max my current CPU out and would hate to upgrade and see very little improvement. Of Course it will mean getting away from SATAII to NVME and getting USB3 and DDR4 which would i guess be nice.
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How far have CPUs come? Will i see a big boost upgrading?
- Thread starter chickadee
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to answer that i do a bit of everything, i do a lot of multitasking, as in 30+ chrome tabs, 2k video playback etc etc all at once, i play games from time to time, generaly CRPG's and WoW, i do photo editing using lightzone on RAW images. Just everything really, although i dont video edit and i know these multi core chips excel at that. I do want to make sure my PC will last as long as possible so i usually pick a rather over specced CPU instead of going for one that would be adequate, better to have a chip underused than wishing for a better chip.
I know i could probably get away with a ryzen 5 since i dont do a LOT of intensive things but i dont really want to be dropping core counts.
I have a Noctua D14, at stock it sits at ambient and 100% load it hits about 32c, im having an issue, if i overclock to say 3.7 like i was yesterday i cant put my pc to sleep, everytime i shut down or put it to sleep it refuses to boot, i have to clear the cmos and reset to defaults, its infuriating...at 3.7 it feels much faster too so can only assume up in the 4ghz range its blazing. I suck so much at overclocking to be honest, i just set voltages to auto, i just dont know where to start......
I would love the settings, it would be such a help, i find letting the board set voltages it over volts but its such a daunting task to reduce them one by one, with your settings it would be a nice starting point for sure!
Not sure you seen my reply but if you do get a chance i would love to see your settings, i tried again today and i can get to 4ghz and even 4.2 but thats using auto voltages, it gets VERY toasty!
Fantastic! Thanks very much! Cant wait to see if the settings transfer over perfectly!
thanks! I inserted all the values as close as i could (im using an x5660) but no matter what i did i couldnt boot, i dont know what im doing wrong, unless i set all voltages to AUTO i cant get a boot and then it seems to be throwing so much extra voltage, at 3.4ghz overclock i get a 40c increase to temps from stock....its clearly not something i want to be keeping on at those high voltages.
Thats an issue i have always had, my ram refuses to run at higher than 1333, XMP causes non boot and anything above 1333 too, its iritating, theya re 1600mhz sticks but wont run, even just running 2 sticks or even 1 it wont run above 1333.....no idea why!
Is that 100% correct though? When i overclocked my CPU to 4ghz normal tasks like loading chrome up and general windows use was much snappier but it was never maxed out, a core2duo wouldnt be maxed in windows use but i bet a new Ryzen would make the system feel much more responsive. Is that not right?