Hi guys,
I recently posted a thread questioning what new cooler I should get as I inadvertently broke my old one when applying new thermal paste. I ended up going for a Noctua NH-D14 after reading some amazing reviews. Took me a while to install it with the help of a friend and after cleaning off the old paste, putting new stuff on and doing a 1hr OCCT large data test the highest CPU temperature I got was 50c and on idle all cores sit around 24-26c (which a friend of mine is VERY jealous of).
All games work fine on high, besides two... Battlefield 4 and CoD: Advanced Warfare. On both of them I'm forced to reduce the graphics settings to low to make it playable and Battlefield 4 takes an immensely long time to load into a game online. (4-5 minutes on loading a new map)
My question is this: Would it be worth trying an overclock on my 5-6 year old CPU to see if this helps? Or do I need a new mobo, CPU and GPU altogether? If an overclock is worth it... How far do you think I could push it?
NB: it did used to be OC'ed to 3.5ghz but I ended up putting it back to stock as it would regularly overheat and cause hard lock ups. This was due to the crappy aftermarket cooler I had in it at the time.
Thanks.
I recently posted a thread questioning what new cooler I should get as I inadvertently broke my old one when applying new thermal paste. I ended up going for a Noctua NH-D14 after reading some amazing reviews. Took me a while to install it with the help of a friend and after cleaning off the old paste, putting new stuff on and doing a 1hr OCCT large data test the highest CPU temperature I got was 50c and on idle all cores sit around 24-26c (which a friend of mine is VERY jealous of).
All games work fine on high, besides two... Battlefield 4 and CoD: Advanced Warfare. On both of them I'm forced to reduce the graphics settings to low to make it playable and Battlefield 4 takes an immensely long time to load into a game online. (4-5 minutes on loading a new map)
My question is this: Would it be worth trying an overclock on my 5-6 year old CPU to see if this helps? Or do I need a new mobo, CPU and GPU altogether? If an overclock is worth it... How far do you think I could push it?
NB: it did used to be OC'ed to 3.5ghz but I ended up putting it back to stock as it would regularly overheat and cause hard lock ups. This was due to the crappy aftermarket cooler I had in it at the time.
Thanks.