Recent content by Supernova1138

Probably stick with the 0.085 negative offset. Locking to a specific voltage often isn't useful as it means it will run that voltage constantly, even at idle increasing power consumption.

Make sure you're checking Vcore and not VID. VID is the amount of voltage a CPU requests, not what it actually gets, Vcore is the actual voltage. Still requesting 1.38 at stock speeds is high and you can probably get away with a lower voltage if you don't intend on overclocking.

Check what your core voltage is, you may have some room to undervolt to improve temps without getting a new cooler as most motherboards tend to put more voltage than needed in at Auto settings to ensure stability. You may also need to check it's actually running at stock speeds and isn't using...

Have to disagree there depending on how much power your components draw. My RTX 3090 can heat up a room very quickly if left running at full power for extended periods. Now for CPUs this might not be a huge issue as few CPUs are drawing more than 350 Watts (looking at you overclocked 10980XE)...

Yeah that is a very low end board, weak VRMs with no heatsinks, barely adequate for running the FX 6300 at stock speeds. I'd remove your overclock and just run at stock, you'll get better performance that way. With the overclock you're going to be constantly throttled by the VRMs and get overall...

Which motherboard do you have? If you have a board with weak VRMs you might be running into some throttling when you increase the voltage and power draw for the overclock and that will give you a lower Cinebench score as your CPU isn't holding 4.32GHz constantly. The FX chips have always been...

Yeah, the GDDR5 version of the GT 1030 performs similar to the Vega integrated graphics found in the 2200G or 2400G APUs which are considerably better than the A10 7850k's integrated graphics. VRAM amount might be about the same, AMD integrated graphics can take up to 2GB of system memory to...

Assuming you have the GDDR5 version of the GT 1030, it would be more powerful than the A10's integrated GPU. If it's the DDR4 version of the card, which is only half as fast there may not be as much of a difference, but if your applications don't support OpenCL but do have CUDA acceleration it...

Maybe 30FPS at 720p low settings if you're lucky. The GT 730 is barely any better than the integrated graphics on the 2500 and probably technically slower than GTA V's stated minimum required GPU, the 8800GT.

Since you are upgrading to an older CPU you shouldn't have to do a BIOS update, your board should already support the 2500. The 2500 is older than the 3240 but it does perform better as it has 4 physical cores vs. the 3240 which only has two cores with hyperthreading. Both chips are quite old...

For just gaming, probably not, especially if you are running at 4K where your RTX 3090 is going to be your limiting factor pretty much all the time. If you're doing a lot of productivity tasks that can leverage the extra cores then it would be more worthwhile.

In that case it probably needs its thermal paste redone. It's a 12 year old laptop, the paste is probably horribly dried out and the cooler isn't contacting the CPU properly anymore.

5.1 GHz is the single core boost, in practice you won't hit that very often as most modern applications will use more than 1 core. 4.8GHz is the boost you get when all cores are loaded.

Your cooler either isn't mounted properly and isn't making contact with the CPU, or if you have a water cooler then the pump isn't working, either because it's not plugged in or it has failed. Remount the cooler and double check to make sure everything is connected.

If you're just gaming I'd say stick with your current platform and CPU. Few games are scaling up to enough cores and threads to make getting the 9900k or a high core count Ryzen chip worthwhile at this time. If you're doing lots of productivity work and want to say reduce render times or plan on...