- Joined
- Sep 10, 2014
- Location
- Sydney, Australia
Hi Guys,
New here, I haven't really done any overclocking in the past. The last time I did any kind of overclocking I had a friend do it for me and I just watched.
Long story short, built a PC in 2008. Upgraded everything last year except the CPU and motherboard. New GPU, RAM, PSU, Liquid cooling, SSD etc. I'm a gamer and play a lot of Dota 2, Battlefield 4 etc, I can generally play most games in maxed out (or close to it) graphic settings. I experience occasional FPS drops at random moments though, even if I change the graphics to the lowest they possibly go. I've heard that it may be 'choking' ? CPU choking the GPU or something like that?
Anyway everything had been running fine without random drops until the updates of the last 3 months or so in games like Battlefield 4 and Dota 2 which have had large updates of late, albeit not massive graphical updates but large content updates none the less. And I've been experiencing random FPS drops and sluggishness more frequently, sometimes when there's absolutely nothing happening on the screen, eg; in Battlefield 4 I may be looking at another player run past and I get a FPS drop from say 60FPS to 9FPS for a fraction of a second. Or in Dota 2 I would be walking to my lane before the match begins and there's slight random jitter.
So before I go on, here's my current PC specs:
CPU intel i7-940 (was at 3.80Ghz for the past year or so after my friend OC'd it, from the stock 2.93Ghz)
GPU ASUS GTX 770 OC edition
RAM 3x 4GB Ripjaws
Motherboard GA-EX58
PSU Antec 520W High Current Gamer
SSD mind blank on the brand, just a 250GB one with my OS (win7 ultimate x64) and favourite games installed on
HDD 2x 1TB
Corsair Liquid Cooling, forget what it's called H120 or something like that, just one of those zero maintenance ones
So my knowledge of Overclocking is virtually non-existent, I only know what I saw my friend play around with in the BIOS and I've done some googling out of interest and a lot of it I really have no clue about.
My BIOS settings for the past year were:
Clock Ratio: 20x
BCLK: 190
vCore: 1.27500
which produced the desired result of a 3.80Ghz overclock which had been working wonders in reviving my quite old i7 and giving my PC new life with all the new hardware I got last year.
Just today I've tweaked it a bit to...
Clock Ratio: 20x
BCLK: 200
vCore: 1.30000
to produce 4.0Ghz.
I haven't had a chance yet to play any games and see how it goes, but my PC already booted up even quicker than it usually does. So I'm not sure if this will help improve performance and hopefully remove the in-game stuttering.
I'm just wondering if this is a safe overclock, and have I done it right? is there anything else I should be changing in the BIOS that I have missed?
I plan to buy a new CPU and motherboard sometime next year, I just want to remove the in-game stuttering if possible so I can go another 6 months or so without having to upgrade any earlier than I need to.
Thanks in advance!
Kindest Regards,
Nathan
New here, I haven't really done any overclocking in the past. The last time I did any kind of overclocking I had a friend do it for me and I just watched.
Long story short, built a PC in 2008. Upgraded everything last year except the CPU and motherboard. New GPU, RAM, PSU, Liquid cooling, SSD etc. I'm a gamer and play a lot of Dota 2, Battlefield 4 etc, I can generally play most games in maxed out (or close to it) graphic settings. I experience occasional FPS drops at random moments though, even if I change the graphics to the lowest they possibly go. I've heard that it may be 'choking' ? CPU choking the GPU or something like that?
Anyway everything had been running fine without random drops until the updates of the last 3 months or so in games like Battlefield 4 and Dota 2 which have had large updates of late, albeit not massive graphical updates but large content updates none the less. And I've been experiencing random FPS drops and sluggishness more frequently, sometimes when there's absolutely nothing happening on the screen, eg; in Battlefield 4 I may be looking at another player run past and I get a FPS drop from say 60FPS to 9FPS for a fraction of a second. Or in Dota 2 I would be walking to my lane before the match begins and there's slight random jitter.
So before I go on, here's my current PC specs:
CPU intel i7-940 (was at 3.80Ghz for the past year or so after my friend OC'd it, from the stock 2.93Ghz)
GPU ASUS GTX 770 OC edition
RAM 3x 4GB Ripjaws
Motherboard GA-EX58
PSU Antec 520W High Current Gamer
SSD mind blank on the brand, just a 250GB one with my OS (win7 ultimate x64) and favourite games installed on
HDD 2x 1TB
Corsair Liquid Cooling, forget what it's called H120 or something like that, just one of those zero maintenance ones
So my knowledge of Overclocking is virtually non-existent, I only know what I saw my friend play around with in the BIOS and I've done some googling out of interest and a lot of it I really have no clue about.
My BIOS settings for the past year were:
Clock Ratio: 20x
BCLK: 190
vCore: 1.27500
which produced the desired result of a 3.80Ghz overclock which had been working wonders in reviving my quite old i7 and giving my PC new life with all the new hardware I got last year.
Just today I've tweaked it a bit to...
Clock Ratio: 20x
BCLK: 200
vCore: 1.30000
to produce 4.0Ghz.
I haven't had a chance yet to play any games and see how it goes, but my PC already booted up even quicker than it usually does. So I'm not sure if this will help improve performance and hopefully remove the in-game stuttering.
I'm just wondering if this is a safe overclock, and have I done it right? is there anything else I should be changing in the BIOS that I have missed?
I plan to buy a new CPU and motherboard sometime next year, I just want to remove the in-game stuttering if possible so I can go another 6 months or so without having to upgrade any earlier than I need to.
Thanks in advance!
Kindest Regards,
Nathan