Ziddy Admin replied

696 weeks ago

Started doing some overclocking on my i7-950 recently. The fastest I could get it was up to 3.6Ghz up from 3.0 with air cooling and voltage at 1.12.

Stress testing with prime95 my temperature hits 73C which is kinda high I guess.

Thinking about doing my GTX 670 some, but seeing how GW2 barely takes up much usage I might just wait.

Ziddy Admin replied

696 weeks ago

Screwing in my heatsink a bit tighter dropped my temperatures by 8C and another 9C for disabling HyperThreading.

I'm now sitting at 3.8 and 68C full load on Prime95
Seems this is my sweet spot.


last edited 696 weeks ago by Ziddy

Ziddy Admin replied

696 weeks ago

Overclocking the CPU has made a pretty big difference in some benchmarks. e.g. an with ffxiv benchmark progression

stock i7-950 + stock GTX-460 = 2663
stock i7-950 + SLI stock GTX-460 = 4209
stock i7-950 + GTX-670 = 5xxx
OC'ed i7-950 + GTX-670 = 6400
OC'ed i7-950 + OC'ed GTX-670 = 6700

alskfhdslkjdahgf replied

696 weeks ago

never thought about disabling hyperthreading, not like you really need 4 physical cores and 4 virtual. nothing is all that multithreaded yet…
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Ziddy Admin replied

695 weeks ago

Heaven OC GPU benchmark score

http://downloads.guru3d.com/downloadget.php?id=2873&file=4&evp=e07e9edc8599be3b558a93f30ebec842

1198 Score
Settings
Directx 11
Tesselation Extreme
Shaders High
Anisotropy 16x
Stereo 3D Disabled
Multimonitor off
Antialiasing 8x
Fullscreen On
Resolution 1080p

Vorian Veteran Member replied

695 weeks ago

FFXIV:
i7 2600k @ 4.2Ghz + GTX 570 HD (732 core clock/1900 memory clock) 2.56GB = 5400

OC'd i7 2600k @ 4.2ghz + GTX 570 HD 2.56GB (900 core clock/2200 memory clock) = 6257

Heaven:

i7 2600k @ 4.2Ghz + GTX 570 HD (732 core clock/1900 memory clock) 2.56GB = 640

OC'd i7 2600k @ 4.2ghz + GTX 570 HD 2.56GB (900 core clock/2200 memory clock) = 889

Vorian Veteran Member replied

695 weeks ago

Installing the second top fan for my CM Haf X case dropped my temp by a decent 7-10 degrees. Now I have 2 top fans (exhaust), 1 front (intake), 1 side (intake), 1 back (exhaust) and power supply for bottom (intake). Is this optimal?

Proximo Admin replied

695 weeks ago

Sounds about right, that's how I have mine set up. I don't like having the top fans as intake because it gets dusty hella fast.

Highest I could get with FFXIV bench is 5100. That's with my i5-750 running at 3.8ghz which I've had running pretty much since I got the processor. SLI'd 560ti were OC'd to 925mhz/1200mhz, but they weren't very stable so I put them back to stock. I think my cpu is probably bottle necking my system. I might try to upgrade if I can find some good deals around Black Friday.

Vorian Veteran Member replied

695 weeks ago

get a GTX 670 Superclock 4GB

omg… so sexy

I might just get one too =P

Ziddy Admin replied

695 weeks ago

Vorian like da supercock i mean superclock baybay

My idle temps are hella high on my cpu when i OC it. Looking into getting a second cpu fan. Any suggestions? Oh and whats a good arctic paste? arctic silver 5? I lost my old tube.
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