something strange!.

[Sgt Tackleberry]

hi guy's n girl's,

Last night i put my i5 760 back down to stock speed 2.8Ghz. Since day i built my rig i overclocked it to 4ghz.
The reason i did this is i wanted to see how much of boost i was getting, I am schocked to tell you i was not
getting any boost at all from gaming at 4ghz.I play black ops and crysis a lot at max setting @ 1920x1080 res,
in black ops i get an avg fps of 100 and crysis 40fps but now i have put my cpu down to stock my avg fps in
black ops is 130fps and crysis 55, strange, why is this when i thought it would be the other way around.
can some answer this for me plz.

Thanks
sgt.

 

[ewarwoowar]

You definitely made sure it was a safe/stable overclock?

 

[Sgt Tackleberry]

You definitely made sure it was a safe/stable overclock?

i take you mean when i was runnning at 4ghz? if so yes. i primed it 24hrs and IBT as well and fine and stable.

 

[Hagar]

Possibly Turbo is working better on fewer cores at stock than the overclock.

Possibly overheating somewhere was ramping the CPU down.

 

[Sgt Tackleberry]

Possibly Turbo is working better on fewer cores at stock than the overclock.

Possibly overheating somewhere was ramping the CPU down.

can't be heating heating as i am on a custom water loop, idel temps 25'c and fully load temps 45'c.

 

[Brookert]

I do know what you mean. I was messing around with my phenom 965be today, and for some reason I was getting faster pi calculations at 3.8 ghz compared to 4.0 ghz.

Also, bumping my memory bandwidth up from 1333mhz to 1600 mhz feels like its made my pc dead slow!

 

[Leeroy123]

that is weird, from stock on my chip 2,8 to overclock 3.8/4ghz. gaming improve massively.

 

[Sgt Tackleberry]

that is weird, from stock on my chip 2,8 to overclock 3.8/4ghz. gaming improve massively.

you must be lucky then.

I dont get it why it is like that!. can any tech ppl on here answer this or not?

Thanks