I'm running a rather old rig, and only recently have I found preformance a bit lacking. A rather old Crosshair IV Formula with a 1090t processor, with a mixed RAM loadout that confounds some fellows (Two dual channel sets, x2 4gb, x2 2GB w/ a 8-8-8-20 clock) Stock cooling all the way around, she hardy ever let me down, even with the middling Radeon HD 7870 1GB backing it.
Alas, she's getting on in years and showing a bit of age. What can I safely get away with for a preformance boost? I've attempted to look this all up on my own, but when I'm confronted with "Just change the NB Voltage and Frequency" and the options given to me by the BIOS include not one, but three different mentions of NB voltage...
But, the question remains; what can I safely get away with for some gains? I'm having issues where the core and GPU are both showing low useage (30-60%), but I'm getting rather rough FPS (30-50) so something is bottlenecking me; I'm tempted to pull the 2GB ram chips and see what happens, but I'm doubtful of the impact they'd make.
Any other suggestions?
(PS, why will your fourm not let me left click and use autocorrect?)
Alas, she's getting on in years and showing a bit of age. What can I safely get away with for a preformance boost? I've attempted to look this all up on my own, but when I'm confronted with "Just change the NB Voltage and Frequency" and the options given to me by the BIOS include not one, but three different mentions of NB voltage...
But, the question remains; what can I safely get away with for some gains? I'm having issues where the core and GPU are both showing low useage (30-60%), but I'm getting rather rough FPS (30-50) so something is bottlenecking me; I'm tempted to pull the 2GB ram chips and see what happens, but I'm doubtful of the impact they'd make.
Any other suggestions?
(PS, why will your fourm not let me left click and use autocorrect?)