billypnats Posted January 2, 2010 Author Share Posted January 2, 2010 yea i was looking at this video on youtube of this guy that has almost the same config as I have and he's running oblivion very nicely, smooth frames even in imperial market district with like 10 npcs running around. Does overclocking help with performance? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptbptb Posted January 2, 2010 Share Posted January 2, 2010 Does overclocking help with performance? Rumour has it that it is more likely to cause horrible (and possibly permanent) nasty things to happen. :blink: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenrai Posted January 4, 2010 Share Posted January 4, 2010 Rumour has it that it is more likely to cause horrible (and possibly permanent) nasty things to happen. :blink: I would tend to agree. Whilst I've little or no solid proof (that I can reasonably present here at least) I've seen systems that should munch through just about anything todays gaming market can throw at them struggling to handle older games and programs... did the usual maintenance things (removed all overclocking, blocked non-essential programs that were running on start up, shot down the useless crap like CTFmon et al the rest of the jive) and still, naff performance. Switch out the offending overclocked items, moreoften than not the GPU's, (sometimes, but not often, reinstalling them works) and it starts singing like you would think it should again. Whilst there is a lot (and I mean a LOT ) of information about overclocking, safety margins and the eventual effects of overclocking out there, seems a lot of people either don't bother checking it out, or read it and forget it the second they've closed the window (Mod read-me's, anyone? :rolleyes: )Whilst it can have its benefits, I'd advise AGAINST overclocking if Oblivion is the only game you have slowdown on. Chances are, your system isn't using its full resources the rest of the time, and all you will do is burn it out much, much faster if you do overclock it. Jenrai PS - I'm not a computer pro, however, I've been building high performance machines for myself and others since I was about 16. I'm now 30. So whilst I may not work down your local PC World, chances are I have a heckuva lot more 'real' experience than the spotty geeks that do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorrodedSoul Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 Regarding overclocking... mmm.. a difficult matter.First consider this: to overclock, you have to have (pardon redundancy) a OC capable mobo(Motherboard, MB)second, you MUST have a decent way to cool your CPU, be this either by a advanced heatpipe system or a watercooling system(neither of those are cheap/easy to mantain)then you have to go through the painfull and long(and boring to normal ppl) process of finding "the right spot"that is the max OC you'r CPU can get.OCing the gpu is pretty much like the CPU process, but the cooling system tends to be more complex. Here, take this link, if you are wanting to know more or are ready to learn how to do itTBSCthere are case mods and OCing and Cooling systems howto, and the community is very open to lend a hand. anyway I can help, dropme a pm Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ptbptb Posted January 5, 2010 Share Posted January 5, 2010 First consider this: to overclock, you have to have (pardon redundancy) a OC capable mobo(Motherboard, MB)I'm pretty sure he's talking about overclocking the graphic card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeHibs Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 You really shouldn't have to overclock anything. If you do a lot of Oblivion.ini editing, i would try making a backup of it, then delete the original, and let the game build up a new one. I used to have similar frame rate problems, with Fallout 3 and Oblivion, on a very nice system. I let the game build a new ini, and the game worked a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted January 6, 2010 Share Posted January 6, 2010 First consider this: to overclock, you have to have (pardon redundancy) a OC capable mobo(Motherboard, MB)I'm pretty sure he's talking about overclocking the graphic card. you have to have a good motherboard to overclock anything :P I don't recommend overclocking a graphics card. The game should not run like that on a 4850. Overclocking the CPU actually did nothing for me for Oblivion now that I have a new graphics card. Overclocking will not cause any damage as long as you do it right and know what you're doing. I've had my system overclocked from 2.6GHz to 3.2GHz for a year and never had any problems. Previous poster has a good idea there, I forgot about that. Oblivion wouldn't start for me after I reinstalled, forgetting that I didn't delete my custom .ini for my old card. :whistling: If you haven't tweaked the .ini, you should. It helps a lot http://www.tweakguides.com/Oblivion_1.html On old and new cards, these tweaks help a lot :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jenrai Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 Yeah... I never gave the Ini a thought either. Which reminds me... I should probably rebuild mine. :D And Illiad86 - I agree. Some systems are built for it. Most are not. And that right there is a stumbling block of epic proportions. I would defo say you're right about it being safer to overclock a CPU and not so much a GPU. Most of the damage I have seen has been badly/extremely overclocked Graphics Cards, usually without adequate additional cooling (I'm not saying that if its cooled all will be well and good. Thats not a one shot solution either) The problems start when people think OCing is as simple as the guides/experienced pro's make it out to be and that it will magically fix all their problems, without knowing exactly what they are doing or why it 'should' be done, if at all. Fact is, most of the systems that will easily support overclocking don't need it to run anything todays software market can throw at them, unless you're really hammering it and running 20 things at once. (If you are, woah there bunny! slow down. Get off the caffiene. You're killing your system's performance rates and potential lifespan.) Anyways, back on topic -Usually, if you're experiencing either processing or graphics problems, the absolute last thing you want to do is overclock anything as doing so will likely shoot the final nail into your system's cofin. Best bet is to find out whats wrong and repair/replace long before you try to overclock anything. Jen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Illiad86 Posted January 7, 2010 Share Posted January 7, 2010 exactly, like one case...a friend of mine "tried" to "overclock" his CPU...wound up turning up the CPU voltage too high and fried his mobo and CPU...I told him not to do it unless he called me first and asked...but yeah... :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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