More POWER!

[MalakiUK]

Hi all,

Im looking at upgrading my GFX card (from the one in my sig), i usually play games like GW2 and BF3, both run fine @1080 on highest settings. I recently started playing skyrim with a few highres mods and ive noticed quite a but iof stuttering when out hunting in the grassy areas.

So i guess its time to get a bit more muscle with regards to my GFX card. i was originally looking at a 7950 as theyre about my price range, but then wondered if it would be possible to just get another 7850 and run them both in xfire/sli (i forget which is which) and if this would give a decent boost in performance

Thanks for any light you can shed

 

[MalakiUK]

trouble is, i dont/havnt overclocked anything, too scared to blow something up >.<

so we think the 7950 is the way to go?

 

[MalakiUK]

cool, ill take a look at them when i get home from work. I <3 you guys

 

[MalakiUK]

I tried the overclock suggestion from post 11 and my FPS dropped from a minimum of 25 fps on heaven to 8FPS.....>.<

 

[MalakiUK]

i let it go for the first 4 phases and when it wasnt clearing up i ended it

 

[MalakiUK]

im running standard cooling on the CPU so havnt OC'd it for fear of blowing it up (aswell as my lack of knowledge)

but i dont understand why when i increased the GPU settings it gave worse performance >.<

 

[MalakiUK]

Bought my 3570k last week and haven't yet bought a heavy duty cooler. Despite that, it's running no problem at all at 4.2 - 4.4.

What settings would you suggest using? im clueless on oc'ing >.<

 

[MalakiUK]

upping them in increments of? would 10 suffice? at what figure should i stop?

(see, told you im clueless lol)

 

[MalakiUK]

ok,ill give it a shot and see how it goes, thanks

 

[MalakiUK]

I tried overclocking my cpu a little earlier to 4gig but the cores went up to 79c at one point duno if i did sonething wrong with the volts >.<

 

[MalakiUK]

just ordered a "Cooler Master Hyper 612S CPU Cooler"

should arrive friday, got the house to myself that night also so will try blowing up my Pc then

 

[MalakiUK]

I hope not to lol

Am i right in just setting it to 44 and lowering the vcore offset until the cores fail the stress tests? Confused about the turbo offset also

 

[MalakiUK]

Ok, so just so im clear then

Set multiplier to 41, run prime for 30 mins, if this is ok, increase in increments of 1 or 2 until the stress test crashes the system, then increase the voltage slightly (.05 or .1)


am i close? lol

been scouring the net at work for stuff on this ready for friday so i can hit this thing hard...good thing is, its winter so should be better for core temps

 

[MalakiUK]

the coolermaster 612 was highly recommended to me when i was on the search