i5-750 bottleneck

[lomez]

mine is at 3.8 - idle 34 load 56 but thats after numerous reseats and reapplications of thermal paste its with the spread apllication i used a credt card and spread from corner to corner to eliminate air pockets.

 

[SirCanealot]

I used to have my i5 750 clocked at 4ghz, but I got tired of the heat and noise (I don't have a great chip, and needs a lot of vcore for 4ghz!)

I now have it clocked at 3.2ghz with turbo on, and I'm a much happier camper. I see very little CPU bottleneck. I think Skyrim might like a little bit more raw speed, but I get decent performance and 99% GPU usage most of the time.

Been playing Torchlight recently, and it's CPU bound at 90-120fps with enemies on the screen. Oh dear!

The only annoying things is audio now encodes at 90x rather than like 120x... xD

I'd say a 3.6ghz clock will get rid of 95% of CPU bottleneck, but I'm fine at 3.2 here. Most chips easily push 4ghz, so I wouldn't worry

 

[Hillskill]

3.2Ghz bottlenecking a 5850!? Is that right? I find that really surprising or perhaps I'm not understanding how this works. Wouldn't a genuine quad core like a core i5 more then keep up with a midrange card from a couple of generations back?
Reason I ask is because I have a 580 and I have never even thought to check CPU>GPU!

 

[ScoTTyBEEE]

My 4ghz ig750 gets over 80c when playing bf3, still works and I think this is mainly due to my heatsink being full of dust. The air goes in and straight back out again lol.

 

[El Jimben]

3.2Ghz bottlenecking a 5850!? Is that right? I find that really surprising or perhaps I'm not understanding how this works. Wouldn't a genuine quad core like a core i5 more then keep up with a midrange card from a couple of generations back?
Reason I ask is because I have a 580 and I have never even thought to check CPU>GPU!

I wouldn't say so, I just overclocked my CPU to 3.4GHz from stock & I didn't notice any FPS increase so it must've been fairly happy before.

 

[SirCanealot]

3.2Ghz bottlenecking a 5850!? Is that right? I find that really surprising or perhaps I'm not understanding how this works. Wouldn't a genuine quad core like a core i5 more then keep up with a midrange card from a couple of generations back?
Reason I ask is because I have a 580 and I have never even thought to check CPU>GPU!

I said it was CPU bound on Torchlight. Old, single threaded game, that runs at 90-180fps anyway depending on how much is on the screen!

 

[sbglobal]

I got the gelid tranquillo the other day. With all my case fans set to 15% in the bios, the temps peak at about 76c in prime.

 

[BISH422]

@what cpu speed ??