New to Overclocking.

[nathanael91]

Hello everyone

My current spec is
Gigabyte GeForce GTX 670 Windforce 3X 2048MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card

Intel Core i5-3570K 3.40GHz (Ivybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor (77W)

Cooler Master HAF X Gaming Tower Case - Black (RC-942)

Gigabyte Z77X-D3H Intel Z77 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard

XFX 850W XXX Edition Modular '80 Plus Silver' Power Supply

Antec Kúhler H2O 920 High Performance Liquid CPU Cooler
(LGA775/LGA1155/LGA1156/LGA1366/AM2/AM2+/AM2+/AM3+)

Intel 330 Series 120GB 2.5" SATA 6Gb/s Solid State Hard Drive

Corsair Vengeance 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-15000C9 1866MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMZ8GX3M2A1866C9)



So I have been trying to play Battlefield 4 on the lowest setting and its struggling really badly. I thought it was the card but I'm not too sure it is as its not an old card to play on the lowest settings.

If possible could you please help me overclock my cpu, I'm really nervous I'm going to screw the overclocking up.

Any help would be really appreciated, I'm hoping to do this tomorrow.

Would it be an idea to overclock my graphics card as well?

 

[wazza300]

for cpu @ 4.5ghz try setting

cpu/pci clock to 100
cpu multiplier to 45x
vcore voltage response to fast
pwm phase control to extreme performance
set xmp/profile 1 for your memory
loadline calibration to high
cpu voltage to normal
dvid(dynamic vcore) set to +0.020v

download coretemp/cpu-z and prime95 and stress cpu and keep an eye on coretemps,and look in cpu-z while stressing with prime95 to see what your load cpu voltage is

try to stay below 80-85c and around 1.35v cpu voltage or lower

for gpu idk as im not used to NVidia cards

 

[Doomedspeed]

Wazza has done a good description to help you OC your CPU.

I don't think your issuesvare hardware related though. A 670 should do well on BF4 @ 1080p. Especially on the lowest settings. Have you made sure your drivers are up to date? And your GPU performs well on other titles?

My 670 managed around 40-45 on Far Cry 3 ultra settings, so imnconfused why BF4 is struggling so much.

Have you looked on BF4 forums to see if there is a setting you need to enable/disable? Have you tried reinstalling the game?

Just to check, you have the GPU connected properly, both PCI-E connectors? (I've seen people not have before).

As for OCing the GPU you can use afterburner or EVGA precision, both as good.

Raise the power limit to Max and then increase the core clock 20-30 MHz at a time. To test stability run the Heaven benchmark on loop, let it run at least 3 times.. Keep an eye on results because it may nor crash but your score may be lower (with an unstable OC).

Do the same with the memory clock but increase +50-100 per time Nvidia cards love more memory speed. Loop it 3 times for stability.

Hope I helped

 

[nathanael91]

Thanks for all the help. I noticed the my ssd on which bf4 is on was not connected to geforce so that was the problem. Now I have no issue on the game.