Hi guys, I finally migrated over to here after much poking and prodding from Wizz. I did read many posts here in the past but I finally signed my name to the roster. Anyway, I got a new system and have been learning how to over clock a bit. My new system has a Asus P6T Mother board, a Thermaltake Tr-2 RX850 Power supply, a core i7 920 proc with a Cooler Master V-8 cooler, 12 gig corsair 1600 ram running triple channel mode and an Ati 5770 vidcard with 1 gig ddr5 on it all in a Cooler Master 925 half tower. Do any of you over clock and how extreme do you get? I have read of some seriously extreme over clocks on the i7 's and have come up with a few stable versions myself. So far this is what I have been able to do with just air cooling for the system. I dont think I will push much further and generally dont run EU at these settings the entire time I play. Any feed back on what you do and what performance you have had would be nice to compare to where I am at now. The system does not really need to be over clocked to run EU with full on GFX but I am thinking of getting into FPS shooters and maybe a little PK in EU so want better then stock performance to compete. Here is screenies of what I have been able to do so far...
Did you bump yer head? When I got this the 5870 was best Ati card and was 5x the cost. For the little bit of change between them I did not see paying that extra. Now the 5900 series just came out but I have not bothered to check. But by no means is this in the medium category for cards out today. I am reasonably certain that down the road if I will ever have the need to run 3 of these on that mobo. At that point should a game I play require more I would demand a direct jack in to a wet wired setup in my head Heres the top of Tomshardware chart for vidcards.. Graphics Card Hierarchy Chart GeForce Radeon Intel Discrete: HD 5970 Discrete: GTX 295 Discrete: HD 4870 X2, HD 5870 Discrete: GTX 280, GTX 285 Discrete: HD 4850 X2, HD 5850 Discrete: 9800 GX2, GTX 260, GTX 275 Discrete: HD 4870, HD 4890, HD 5770 Discrete: 8800 Ultra, 9800 GTX, 9800 GTX+, GTS 250 Discrete: HD 3870 X2, HD 4850, HD 5750 Discrete: 8800 GTX, 8800 GTS 512 MB Go (mobile): 280M Discrete: HD 4770 Discrete: 8800 GT 512 MB, 9800 GT Go (mobile): 260M (112) Discrete: HD 4830 Discrete: 8800 GTS 640 MB, 9600 GT, GT 240 (GDDR5) Discrete: HD 2900 XT, HD 3870 BTW the thread was asking a comparrsion of systems and what others OC at...What do you play on?
*Edited away a wall of text explaining just what this graph does better...* http://images.anandtech.com/graphs/5700_101209230406/20441.png (I know It's just one game but the results is pretty much the same %'wise in all.) Forgot to add what I'm playing on. Q8200 @ Stock MSI P7N Zilent Motherboard (Wish I had another one..) 4GB DDR2 PC-whatever ram ATI Radeon HD5850 Just like pretty much any other computer these days it plays everything I want to play at max without lagg. I don't know why btw but, first time I started EU with the HD5850, If I turned up the AA to 4x the lagg would come, so I turned it down. Now I can put it at 8x and have no lagg at all. O.o I'm guessing It's just performance updates on Mindarks part.
I have an i7-860, currently @ stock settings couse there isn`t any game out there wich any i7-needs to be overklocked to play. The intel Turboboost is enough to have activated and when the CPU feels it needs more power it will overklock itself up to 3,3Ghz or something. The only time i overklocked it manually was when i was benching with 3D Mark-Vantage and 3D Mark-06. I have an Gtx260 in it, and that is a Hughe bottleneck, and youre 5770 are in the same range as that one(Exept you have DX11) I did also play EU, Crysis Warhead and Age of Conan with the Overklock and i gained 0 Extra fps with the overklock due to the GPU bottlenecking to much. I must say that im in love with my i7, the only reason that i overklocked for benchmarking are that the CPU dosent have to run at 3.3Ghz in thoose tests, it just runs at the speed it needs to get the job done. So to get higher scores you actually have to force it to work at higher speeds by overklocking it Manually.
Read this review on the 5770. I found this VERY interesting to know.. They final page is the summary and basicly says that running 5770's in triple crossfire mode blows the 5970 away in many aspects. Power consumption, price, and the benchmarks were crazy how much better they preformed. With the new catalyst the featires he didnt like most have been resolved its a good read at anyrate I learned alot about what tests to run, what they prove and what the results mean. http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.p...sk=view&id=408&Itemid=72&limit=1&limitstart=4
Yeah going for tripple crossfire instead of just buying another card is a good Idea. Especially with a card as 5770 with its low powerconsumption and good price.
There is a setting in bios to turn off speed step..thats what makes your proc ramp up and down as needed. You should turn that off when you do bench testing other wise you proc will run up and down during the testing and give skewed results which will confuse the hell outta ya trying to figure why it has such high processing speed but when the rest of the tests run it falls on its face because its ramped back down again.
I don't "overclock" as such but I do have both of my Dell's lappy cores running at 100% permanently (no throttling). To achieve this without any heat issues I undervolt the CPU with RightMark CPU Clock Utility and have the fan running at full whack with Dell Fan Control Utility. Not a thing for the fainthearted to attempt but it has helped my system become much more responsive....
Be interesting to know exactly how you make the procs run 100% at all times. My lappy played EU ok but I am more interested in the 100% proc for recording with the lappy. Getting it to run 100% all the time while recording would be great to reduce latency on multi track play back while recording analog at the same time.
I'm not that hot on describing how exactly the various options on RightMark work but I can provide a few sceenies of my settings to browse over... Here's my "with CPU throttling" and "without CPU throttling" monitoring pages... the 5 setup pages of interest are here: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 ...and if you do decide to bypass throttling provide more cooling, I have a few small metal weights acting as a heat sink! ps... this is in the Testing subforum, perhaps a mod could move it to somewhere more appropriate?
So all these setings can be changed and managed thru rightmark? heh I was thinking ther had to be processor speciffic settings and or hardware safety features fussed with. Cool I will check into this and see what I can work with my system that makes it more efficiant for what I need it to do. Thanx for the help. Rep on the way.
