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schnipps

schnipps

schnipps

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Have an i5 clocked to 3.6, tried it at 4 and it crashes in games, even though its a guaranteed 4ghz clock bundle from ocuk. Anyway is it worth stepping up to an i7 4.6ghz clocked bundle? Would i see much difference generally or is it a total waste of time?
 
Hi there,

If you have an i5 (assuming it's a quad core - like the 750 or 760), it's running stably at 3.6GHz and you mainly play games - then you really don't need a CPU upgrade for at least 2 years (unless you are running £700 worth of graphics cards). With a CPU of this speed - modern games will run great and upping the clockspeed to 4GHz (11% increase in clockspeed) the actual performance increase in most games will be little if any (since most games are GPU limited, not CPU limited when you have such a good CPU and run games at high settings).

As for sandy bridge - that would cost hundreds of pounds and for most games you won't see any performance improvement for the same reasons mentioned above.

May I ask what setting you were using to try and hit 4GHz?
 
Settings for 4ghz seem to work, its a tweaked bios from ocuk as part of the bundle and yes i think its a 750 chip, its defo quad. I get blue screens in BC2 which i attribute to either voltage issues or heat, As for the exact settings i use its hard to sday i would have to enable to ocuk bios and write them down. To get it stable at 3.7-3.8 i have just dropped the multi and then the cpu voltage a notch. I suppose i could try dropping the fsb?
 
Surely if you buy a guaranteed bundle then if it doesn't perform you NEED to send it back because you're basically paying for a processor they said would work at that speed, and if i remember correctly i think that's called false advertising :P

are ocUK prime95'ing / IBT these bundles for a good 12+ hours before sending them out? Ive seen a lot of these threads recently and it sounds like they're just slapping in any old volts
 
Agreed, if it was bought as a guaranteed 4Ghz then you have paid extra for this. I'd get in touch with ocuk if it were me.
 
To much hassle guys, means strippping the sytem down packing it up and posting, and with the chance of them saying its fine. Leaves me with no pc aswell and i use it for work so its not possible. I dont know if they are tortured tested, i would assume they should be but i cant get anywhere enar 4ghz in bad company 2 for longer then 30 mins without a full blue screen crash.
 
that's still not the point though... ocuk make you pay extra to get a processor that WILL do the rated speed they set.... you could've saved a LOT of money by buying the components yourself (and not only that, it would've probably achieved those speeds anyway)

thats the point we're making, you paid for extra and you're satisfied with stock? you should've bought them on their own
 
:).

Op isn't bothered. Too much hassle. Fair enough. It's the rest of us who see a wrong and want it righted. Lol.

As to your question, schnipps, like cmndr andi said, I don't think you'd see much benifit in upgrading.
 
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