I am currently at 4.7ghz @ 1.344v on a push pull cm hyper 212 evo. Is it worth it to purchase a better cooler like a noctua nhd15s or corsair h115i? to achieve something like 5-5.3ghz ? would i gain a lot of performance from 4.7 or would it just fry my chip super quick ?
Question FX 8350 Overclock
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If you have the vcore set at 1.334V and the chip is doing 4.7GHz, you have a damn good piece of silicon. The best I've been able to get my FX-8350 to is 4.7GHz, and that was with 1.5V. I've had 3 of them, and that was the best one.
To answer your question, if the temp is your limitation, then the better cooler would be an option to try. Btw, I had a push-pull 212 EVO on mine too. Before that I had a Corsair H60 liq. cooler. Same result with either.
To answer your question, if the temp is your limitation, then the better cooler would be an option to try. Btw, I had a push-pull 212 EVO on mine too. Before that I had a Corsair H60 liq. cooler. Same result with either.
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Are you sure it isn't throttling? You can get some amazing clock speeds if one or more of the cores are throttling down.
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That could be due to less than all cores at full clock when you stress test. Have you used AMD Overdrive? I used to use it because I could watch for throttling easily with it.
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Then I'd be tempted to either go for a better cooler or take the core temps a little higher with the 212 EVO. An occasional peak into the low 60Cs is fine (IMO).
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That I can't say. The amount of improvement would vary depending on the game, the screen resolution, the in-game settings, the number of players, etc.
In single player gaming (campaign mode) you would see the greatest improvement, tho. And I suspect your FX-9590 (what you effectively have) is bottlenecking the GTX 2070 now unless you game at very high resolutions.
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Oh! You don't have a 4K monitor? I'm not sure how much difference that would make with a 1080p(?) display using Dynamic Super Resolution. Might work in your favor. Here is how.
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Lol... yeah, 4K is 4 times the 1080p screen that the GPU has to render with every frame. But did it help on getting the GPU to run closer to 100% usage?
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It was more of a test than a solution. It therefore appears that the CPU is the bottleneck. I doubt a few hundred more MHz would help. Probably not worth it to spend more on cooling then if you are only after sheer FPS.
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