Processor speed question
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I decided to take the plunge and OC my CPU, it's a K series so I figure why waste a potential of extra performance? afterall, that's what the 'K' and the extra expense is for right?
I managed to get it stable at 4.5ghz within safe temps (never goes above 79C under stress tests) but as a trade off I found that I had to turn off any intel power saving features (things like speedstep and C-State through my BIOS) or the chip wouldn't like it and the PC either would freeze or BSOD.. I'm assuming this occurs when the jump in frequency happens from low/high and vice versa.. at least what I'm I'm assuming.
So my question is that now I've turned off all the power saving stuff my Chip is now running at 4.5ghz.. like all the time, from the moment I switch on the PC, even when not doing anything intensive to warrent a need for such a speed, is this constant OC'd speed harmful to the chip? I'm not worried about temps, it's currently at 39C idle @4.5 and goes up and down variable to my CPU fan speed and what I'm doing to a max of 49C. When gaming its in and around 70C.
I don't want to break it
I managed to get it stable at 4.5ghz within safe temps (never goes above 79C under stress tests) but as a trade off I found that I had to turn off any intel power saving features (things like speedstep and C-State through my BIOS) or the chip wouldn't like it and the PC either would freeze or BSOD.. I'm assuming this occurs when the jump in frequency happens from low/high and vice versa.. at least what I'm I'm assuming.
So my question is that now I've turned off all the power saving stuff my Chip is now running at 4.5ghz.. like all the time, from the moment I switch on the PC, even when not doing anything intensive to warrent a need for such a speed, is this constant OC'd speed harmful to the chip? I'm not worried about temps, it's currently at 39C idle @4.5 and goes up and down variable to my CPU fan speed and what I'm doing to a max of 49C. When gaming its in and around 70C.
I don't want to break it

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I am running a i7 4790K oc'ed to 4.4Ghz. Idle at 39c and max to 49c. Consider room temp at 21c and the MB temp at 28c. I run all my fans at max RPM including my 120mm cpu cooler. The BIOS/MB temp protection should shut down cpu and stuff if you get close to 79c.
Honestly, I find no real benefit to running a quad-core over 4.0GHz anyway. With an SSD, I find no measurable pick up in performance for gaming or other.
If you want better performance for gaming then look at your GPU to oc or upgrade. Leave the CPU at factory values... at least for now.
I goes nicely up and down in frequency depending on load.
2600K@4.3
Any overclock is essentially going to lower the lifespan of your chip rather that will effect you before you upgrade or not is probably very slim chance. What CPU do you have? I turn off all power saving features because I don't like them especially in this game when it could confuse the CPU into running a lower frequency due to the game only using 1 core and how little overall CPU usage the game will actually use. I have a i5 3570k and I overclock it to 4.3GHz. I have an MSI board so I just use OC Genie and this is the highest OC Genie goes automatically I have gotten higher clocks by not using OC Genie but I have found them to just give me issues.
I've tried various combos of things, mostly what I've read about.. I think I've been lucky with this processor so far in terms of how far I've been able to push it, but its been a bit of a mammoth affair to get here
I didnt even mention doh, lol.. I only got the i5 4690K, I didn't see too much difference in gaming performance over the 4790K so I put the extra wonga to a 970 over a 960, which I've recently learned was probably a good decision (looking at 960/970 benchmarks) only problem I'm having with the 970 so far is that I'm getting some horrible coil whine, when FPS is in the very high hundreds (main menu's in games) it goes away when I'm playing. Card is a beast though.. has to be said, by far the best I've owned to date.
I was mainly just wondering if the chip will be OK at a constant 4.5ghz, cuz if so and its would be fine.. then it'd be mad to run it at stock, might as well get what I paid for innit, even if it costs me a few more quid (or bucks) a year in electricity
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-960-vs-GeForce-GTX-670
It's pretty sad a gtx 670 has that much over a 960. Especially when you compare a gtx 670 to gtx 970.
Much better 3DMark06 score 29,150 vs 10,767.5 2.8x better 3DMark06 score
Higher memory bandwidth 192.3 GB/s vs 96 GB/s
Higher texture rate 102.5 GTexel/s vs 72.1 GTexel/s
Significantly higher crysis 3 framerate 59.9 fps vs 36.1 fps
More texture mapping units 112 vs 64
Slightly more shading units 1,344 vs 1,024
Higher BioShock infinite framerate 83.7 fps vs 75.8 fps
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-970-vs-GeForce-GTX-670
For gtx 670 vs gtx 970 the gtx 670 wins in only 2 categorys. A gtx 670 only beats the gtx 970 by 100% in 3DMark06 because a gtx 670 supports directx9 that much better than a gtx970.
Much better 3DMark06 score 29,150 vs 15,071 Around 95% better 3DMark06 score
Higher crysis 3 framerate 59.9 fps vs 50.6 fps
Heres 960 vs 760
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-960-vs-GeForce-GTX-760
and 660 vs 960
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-960-vs-GeForce-GTX-660
770 vs 970 to show you what a next series card should have over a previous.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-970-vs-GeForce-GTX-770
and here is the main event gtx 660 vs gtx 760
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-760-vs-GeForce-GTX-660
As you can see the gtx 660 only beats the gtx 760 in Noise Level and Power consumption.
For this game it would have been better to get a 680 or 760, 770, 780, or w/e instead of a piece of crap gtx 960
I'm sure the Mission editor would have liked to meet the i7 had I gone down that route.. especially when it comes to building a map, but meh.. I couldn't hold out any longer and I game games a heck of a lot more than I map maps so the extra cores took the back seat
I added up the total build cost of my entire PC (Case and all insides) and it came to £807, which aint too shabby.
Yep.. Still aint bought a mic or decent headset
Maybe it's because I have msi gtx 670 2gb power edition and maintain 122fps constant on all maps except ones like coldfront and slums. A gtx 960 should surely out perform my gtx 670 considering its 2 series above mine. A gtx 760 is pretty much on par with a gtx 670 as you can see here. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-760-vs-GeForce-GTX-670 but if you compare gtx 670 to gtx 960 it doesn't get better like it should it gets much much worse. http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-960-vs-GeForce-GTX-670
Like I mean Crysis 3 1920 x 1080 - Very High preset + 16xAF + 2xSMAA
-the gtx 670 gets an average of 59.9 fps. (65% more performance than gtx 960)
-the gtx 760 gets an average of 58.7 fps (A little under 65% more performance than gtx 960)
-the gtx 960 gets an average of 36.1 fps (Ridiculous)
Do I really need to say more? The gtx 960 is also 128bit when everything else is 256bit or higher.
The gtx 960 is not mid-range like the previous series of its kind (gtx 660, gtx 760, gtx 560, gtx 460, etc...) The gtx 960 is definitely low end. Thus is ridiculously overpriced as well.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-960-vs-GeForce-GTX-950
It barely beats a gtx 950. Nvidia cards that are 128bit have always been low-end.
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-760/specifications
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-960/specifications
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-660/specifications
For the 900 series nvidia has changed their low end - high end products.
A gtx titan x - high range
A gtx 980ti - high range
A gtx 980 - mid range
A gtx 970 - mid range
A gtx 960 - low range
A gtx 950- low range
For the 700 series it went like this:
A gtx titan z - super high range
A gtx titan black - high range
A gtx titan - high range
A gtx 780 ti - high range
A gtx 780 - high range
A gtx 770 - mid range
A gtx 760ti - mid range
A gtx 760 - mid range
A gtx 750ti - low range
A gtx 730(128bit ver) -gtx750 - low range
A gtx 705 - gtx 730 (64bit ver) - low range
For the 600 series a gtx 650ti - gtx 660ti was mid range a gtx 670-gtx 680 was high range and gtx 690 being super high range
IMO.
At least that's what I told the Mrs
BTW a gtx 960 is 200$ US 315$ Can and gtx 970 is 310$ US 480$ Can you wont see me buying either. I'll wait for pascal and the canadian dollar to raise a bit lol! (It really sucks when can dollar is so low) When i bought my gtx 670 feb 2013 or 2012 I forget I spent 340$ Can and at the time a gtx 670 was 300$ US just to show you what a difference the canadian dollar being lower makes.
If your playing 1080p resolution you should be able to achieve that no problem because you went with 970 over 960
Its efficient, cool and silent, perfect for a HTPC where you also do some casual gaming now and then.
I've only heard the 5.0Ghz barrier broken by a few and not 24/7. ??
http://www.overclock.net/products/intel-core-i7-2700k-3-5-ghz-lga-1155-processor-bx80623i72700k
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say positive words,
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http://www.overclock.net/t/678487/official-5ghz-overclock-club
https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18608863
I remember when 5ghz was an exclusive club and its not very long ago at all, with the rise in water cooling you can find a lot of people willing to push their chips to their very limits
I've seen many reports and evidence in some cases of people getting over 5ghz on good ol' conductive metal with a fan attached
http://valid.canardpc.com/cjdgaz
on a serious note. Its the first thing im upgrading when the time comes.
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