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How much is worth it for an overclock?

ToejaM

ToejaM

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So I'm running my 2500k @ 4.4Ghz as per my sig but I'm wondering.. how much is it worth trying to squeeze out of it from here?

Thinking of BF3 / SWTOR in terms of games, I do very little video editting (hence no i7). I know we don't know what it needs so its just a general question of..

How much more of an overclock is worth it? 200mhz? 300mhz? 400mhz?

Going by a lot of top end past CPUs, it seems the average overclock was probably 1ghz-1.1ghz, had my e8600 @ 4.4ghz and I've seen many Q6600 @ 3.4-6.
 
only figures i have seen but not for battle field 3 as such

is 200mhz around 6fps but slightly better game play..

i would try your 4.8ghz and see if you can get it stable. whats your voltage at 4.4ghz
 
1.275 I believe, about 1.26 under load in cpuz.

Did try for some higher clocks but was having none of it with basic overclock settings so really need to tweak some things

if 200mhz is 6fps thats a pretty good increase if it stays like that up the mhz range
 
i5 @ 4.4ghz wont be your bottleneck, your gpu will be the bottleneck to your system.

200mhz = 6 fps? not so sure on that, maybe from stock 3.3ghz to 3.5ghz but unlikely to see that much improvement going from 4.4 to 4.6ghz.
 
Lol.
So you are worrying about whether your 2500 @ 4.4Ghz is enough for BF3?

Bless you. :rolleyes:


I'm quite happy that my Q9650 @ 4Ghz & ATI6950 2Gb will slay BF3. If anything, look to the god of GPU, only he can help you now.
 
~>Dg<~ said:
cant wait for all these stable overclocks to crash in bf3 just like bfbc2 :p
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My 4.5 i7 clock is perfffectly stable tyvm! :D

But then, I never let my load temps go above 65Deg C _EVER_ on _ANY_ kind of stress test so long term stability considerations from temps are never an problem for me.
 
SlugForAButt said:
My oc is perfectly prime stable too. 4Ghz @ 1.29V thank you very much.
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Tbh, ive seen bfbc2 throw up a hissy fit on systems that have been tested for 12 hrs+ with prime and multiple runs of LinX. As for oc'ing, any decent overclocked quad will be fine for this game, gpu/s will be the major factor.
 
setter said:
Tbh, ive seen bfbc2 throw up a hissy fit on systems that have been tested for 12 hrs+ with prime and multiple runs of LinX. As for oc'ing, any decent overclocked quad will be fine for this game, gpu/s will be the major factor.
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thats why i said it ;)
 
setter said:
Tbh, ive seen bfbc2 throw up a hissy fit on systems that have been tested for 12 hrs+ with prime and multiple runs of LinX.
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Had that & that's why i always finish off using BFBC2 as it very sensitive.

And it will CTD, crash the gfx driver or full out crash and reset the PC until my CPU OC is stable.
 
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