CPU upgrade time?

[Shax84]

So i have right PSUs for it

Did stuff work out for you? Curious on your performance increase

[yuisoku]

Did stuff work out for you? Curious on your performance increase

I RMAed them. Computer booted up like in 10-15 seconds, which felt amazing.

I did not had chance to test AoC, but Shogun 2 and Tera. In those games performance did not increase much because they are like AoC, heavy CPU dependent and use only single core. Which ofc needs high ghz. So with few day testing overall computer/windows speed increased rapidly from old i7 860 3,4ghz but games not so much. Badly optimized game is badly optimized.

[soldanis]

from old i7 860 3,4ghz ...

I have one at 4.2Ghz with hd 6970 and works fine !

U want more Ghz with this cpu ? Disable HT and he mount to 4.6/4.7Ghz with good dissipation
http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1751397


If you Disable two hearts, you can still go higher but I never tested !

Only big overclockers who do seek their maximum frequency and leaving only one active core

[yuisoku]

Not really good with overclocking, i get bluescreens if i go higher than 3,4ghz

4,0ghz would be cool if i get it that high

Have noctua NH-U12F cooler

Edit:

Now its kinda steady 4,0ghz 1.36250 voltage
HT disabled
Ran 1 hour prime95 and max temps were around 80¨c

Time to test how games run now

[Shax84]

http://forums.tweaktown.com/asus/529...ing-guide.html

[yuisoku]

Thanks, will try it when i get my z87 and 4770k back from RMA

[soldanis]

Not really good with overclocking, i get bluescreens if i go higher than 3,4ghz

Just bad setting = unstability
or
temperature too high = unstability

Now its kinda steady 4,0ghz 1.36250 voltage
HT disabled
Ran 1 hour prime95 and max temps were around 80¨c

At 4.2Ghz ,i hav 1.26v and never more 70° in Full test of stability
(occt/intel cpu stress)

PS:
tips, avoid exceed 75 °!

And if you are not accustomed to overclocking,find help to people who know so as not to damage your equipment ...

[yuisoku]

If i lower voltage amount then i get hardware errors while stress testing. I spend whole night increasing voltage values little amount each time and this was first stable i got

It idles around 43 and 50-60 while playing games
About 7+ degrees if i use HT

But anyways i leave it to 4ghz because games i play work exactly same like they did before OC so it would be waste to go any higher

[Legionx]

Not really good with overclocking, i get bluescreens if i go higher than 3,4ghz

4,0ghz would be cool if i get it that high

Have noctua NH-U12F cooler

Edit:

Now its kinda steady 4,0ghz 1.36250 voltage
HT disabled
Ran 1 hour prime95 and max temps were around 80¨c

Time to test how games run now

That voltage and temps are wayyy to high. I have my 3770k at 4.5 and 1.16 volts. You should not need that much voltage to hit 4.0.

[yuisoku]

That voltage and temps are wayyy to high. I have my 3770k at 4.5 and 1.16 volts. You should not need that much voltage to hit 4.0.

It is 860 and not 4770k. Default for it is 2.8ghz so its 1.2ghz increase.

Its 60 degrees while playing heavy games and its ok.
If i lower voltage then system is not stable anymore.
Maybe its bad chip and needs high volts to be stable