I imagine people are quite knowledgeable of core
i5 750's overclocking by now.
Can I ask a couple of things in here or am I out of place?
I
know nothing about memory voltages and what latency settings work best, for one. I'd rather not change them if not required... Unless you guys can\want help me out.
I know most of you will probably scoff at my newbieness in OCing so I understand it'll be pretty difficult to get some answers, especially since I can see how the most direct answer is "Study! Experiment by yourself! Don't rely only on other's knowledge! A bad OC at best will shorten your PC's life and at worst it'll fuck it up!"
I know that, but strangely
my HD 5850 lately seems to be bottlenecked by the stock settings of my i5 in some games and video editing, so I just want to boost it a bit without having to study for weeks/months/years to get the most out of OC... if you can look past all of that above and still want to give me a couple of much appreciated tips:
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Build:
i5 750
Gygabyte p55a UD3
4GB 1333 DDR3 unbuffered CL 9-9-9-24
heatsink Scythe Shuriken revB (lp, I also had a CM Hyper 212+ but it couldn't fit)
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Main problem with all the "easy to follow" guides out there is that memory is always @1666Mhz.
But when building my pc with Hazaro's help I remember reading exactly this:
Speed and latency for RAM (e.g. 1333 9-9-9-24 vs 1666 8-8-8-24) is not a big deal. In many cases it is just 1-4% difference. 1333Mhz DDR3 is perfectly fine for most. Save your money unless a sale is on.
So, with my VERY limited know-how, and provided memtest and Prime95's results mean my OC is stable,
to achieve a respectable OC can I:
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BCLK: 170
Memory: X8
Turboboost OFF
Resulting in constant 3.4Ghz and RAM@1360Mhz. Can I do this without messing with voltages?
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Or maybe:
BCLK: 160
Memory: X8
Turboboost: ON
Would be better as far as performances go? Iirc Anandtech reported that on stock voltages a 160 base clock value was the one giving the best performances with turbo boost on.
Other than those, can I just leaver everything else as it was ie Auto or Enabled? I've read that Gigabyte puts higher-than-needed voltage values when set to Auto, but I dunno if this should be a concern.
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I'm obviously taking full responsability as far as getting my pc fried with you guys' tips (hopefully not, lol).
One last thing, maybe it's relevant maybe not:
This computer DOES NOT run 24x7 but a couple of hours per day, at the most.
*Any* help will be greatly appreciated. A lot.
Thanks!
edit: bolded to make the important bits stand out, sorry for the wall of text