Recent content by pistolpete69

I respectfully disagree with the other response. In my experience, I have had no issues changing the turbo multiplier up to 4 bins over stock on i5-2400, and i7-2600's when using a Z77/Z68/P67 board. So I think you should be able to take it to 4.3 easily(39 max turbo multiplier +4 = 43...

If you ask me your temps are fine at 4.8GHZ, being under 85 degrees and stable in a prime95 is a success in my books. And if you're averaging less than 70 degrees in game, I wouldn't worry about your temps. The extra 100mhz does require a bit extra voltage which some people think will degrade...

I've used a bunch of 1155 boards for overclocking i7 2600k's and 3770k's, and I've had a great experience with the ASUS boards as well. I've also had great experience with an Asrock Z77-Extreme4 board, and there was a solid Gigabyte board as well. You can definitely use a Z68 or P67 board and it...

What resolution are you playing at? You're going to be mostly GPU bottlenecked at 4K, so you might not NEED upgrade YET. You're absolutely right that 4c/4t was being recommended until Ryzen hit, and even now almost all games get along perfectly fine with 4 powerful Coffee-Lake cores running at...

Very similar CPU's, I've used 2600, 2600k and 3770k. 3770 at 4ghz is roughly the same as a 2600k at 4.2 in my opinion, can't go wrong either way. PCI-3.0 on the 3770 is nice to have, but won't make much (if any) difference on a 1060. Personally I'd go for the 2600k, as having your 2600k at 4.5+...

Doesn't get much more high-end than that, you'll have no problem maxing out pretty much every game smoothly. You have the best gaming CPU and the second best GPU on the market, the only thing that would get you more frames would be a 2080 ti but I don't think it's necessary @1440p. I run a GTX...

So I'm looking to upgrade the old Hyper 212 I have in my system, as my temps are getting a little high for my liking on my old 3770k @4.7ghz. In highly demanding CPU demanding games its hovering around 70*c which isn't terrible, but a little higher than I'd like and the processor seems to handle...

Your system can definitely handle a GTX 1080. But I would upgrade to 16gb of ram as 8 won't cut it newer games, especially with a 1080 where the graphics will be maxed out and you'll be getting higher FPS

I'd recommend going for 2666mhz as a minimum for ram if this is a gaming build, Ryzen scales well with faster RAM unlike Intel builds. Don't pay too much for fastest, swaggiest, RGB ram, but if its only say an extra $20-30 to get 8gbs of 3000 mhz or something I would definitely do so. Also...

I have a 1440/144hz G-Sync monitor, and I love it, and I've had it paired with both a 970 and now a 1080. When I got the monitor I upgraded from a 1080p monitor and I was worried my 970 would struggle at the lower FPS. But g-sync made all the difference. Instead of getting 70+ fps I was now...

Your processor runs at 3.4--3.8 ghz, while his runs at 3.8-4.2 from stock. I'm a little surprised 400 MHz is making that big of a difference, but if everything else is equal (Same amount of ram running dual channel at the same speed, running off a similar drive, GPU clocks etc.) than I don't...