Overclockin Advice & Nvida Card Choose

[IanN1990]

I was speaking with a friend about the Up-coming Arma3 "which is looking very nice" and we got chatting about how it would need a 4.0+ CPU to run without issues. Mine at the moment is a 3.3 but with no experience with overclockin and the risk of being inexperienced i figued i would post here :).

 

My Specs

Case: Corsair Graphite 600T Mid Tower

PSU: OCZ 700W ModXStream Pro

Motherboard: Asrock Z68 Extreme4 Gen3

CPU: Intel 5-2500K Quad-Core Processor 3.3GHz, 6MB Cache

Heatsink: Thermaltake Frio

GPU: Radeon HD 6950 Twin FrozR III 2048MB

RAM: Corsair 1600C9 DDR3 8GB

 

Overclocking GUI

 

 

I have no idea what any of these means and wouldn't want to start moving stuff without knowin what i am doing :)

So any tips, advance or even figures to be used would be welcomed :)

 

Lastly,

I have been reading a lot of good things about Nivida, like the physics etc and decided to move from my AMD.

The 3 main advantages i would be looking for would be,

a card with 3 same ports on it "3 HDMI or 3 mini-displays or 3 mini-Hdmi"

a card able to run 3 screens without needing a active adapater

a card similar if not better then my current AMD card.

 

 

Spending a hour on overclockers checking out Nivida cards i found this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-009-KF&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1812

I was told by a friend though the card itself isn't very good for what i have at the moment.

 

I was wondering if anyone knew a card that might be able to help me :)

 

Thanks for any Feedback.

Ian

Edited April 20, 2012 by IanN1990

[hoofhearted4]

just outta curiosity, what month were you born in? my name is Ian too, and i was born in 1990 :P

 

i dont know too much about OCing. i know it has to do with the multiplier and the Volts, but never done it myself. luckly there are tons of people here that will be able to help you out.

 

as for your GPU, i think, honestly, AMD cards are better with multi screen set ups off of one card.

[FMod]

I was speaking with a friend about the Up-coming Arma3 "which is looking very nice" and we got chatting about how it would need a 4.0+ CPU to run without issues.

Any of you privy to developers' inside information?

 

 

CPU: Intel 5-2500K Quad-Core Processor 4.50GHz, 6MB Cache

If it's 4.5 GHz, it's already overclocked, and overclocked a lot.

 

I have been reading a lot of good things about Nivida, like the physics etc and decided to move from my AMD.

There's like 3 or 5 games today that even support PhysX and none of them look particularly different with or w/o GPU support for it.

 

Spending a hour on overclockers checking out Nivida cards i found this.

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-009-KF&groupid=701&catid=1914&subcat=1812

It's like 10-15% faster than an o/c'd and unlocked 6950.

[hoofhearted4]

Mine at the moment is a 3.3

 

4.50GHz

 

 

 

If it's 4.5 GHz, it's already overclocked, and overclocked a lot.

 

seems to be some conflicting data

[aruless]

The 2500 is a beast, can get in air @5.0 Ghz a shame that i have amd xD(not enough money when i was buying this pc >_<)

[dazzerfong]

Apparently, it's nowhere near 4.0 gHz. I don't know where you pulled that figure from......

[IanN1990]

Was my mistake, orginal post has been edited. 4.5 is kinda the goal i wanted but 3.3 is the default out the box :) Edited April 20, 2012 by IanN1990

[Erik005]

The short answer is, you put the cpu ratio higher in little steps, and test stability every step,

 

If your system becomes unstable you up the cpu voltage a little until stable.

 

The long answer is probably in a sandybridge overclock guide.

 

Read an overclock guide for sandy bridge processors

[hoofhearted4]

just outta curiosity, what month were you born in? my name is Ian too, and i was born in 1990 :P

 

just restating my nosey curious question. if you dont wanna answer just lmk so i can STFU and GTFO haha :P