improve 7700k performance without oc

[spyguy]

Is there anyway to improve 7700k performance without overclocking? I have a gtx 1080 but in some cpu intensive games I really wish I could squeeze a little more performance out. In my chips defense I think its really that some of these games don't properly utilize the hardware, im looking at you EU4

 

[geofelt]

You could experiment with disabling hyperthreading.

Really, though, a "K" is designed to be overclocked at least some.

 

[4745454b]

How would you do that? Improve the performance without OCing? I'm just wondering how you thought that was possible? To my knowledge there is no sacrifice to the gods, dance, or prayer you can do that will somehow make your CPU faster. If you find one though make sure you share.

 

[spyguy]

That's why I asked, because I was unaware of any other ways to do that, except maybe I saw mention of changing cpus settings in bios from stock to something else. Im not comfortable possibly lowering the life expectancy of my cpu by oc, but I thought hey why not ask if there were some settings to mess around with.

 

[Finstar]

That's why I asked, because I was unaware of any other ways to do that, except maybe I saw mention of changing cpus settings in bios from stock to something else. Im not comfortable possibly lowering the life expectancy of my cpu by oc, but I thought hey why not ask if there were some settings to mess around with.

Yea, drop the ~30 year life span to just 25 or possibly even just 20 years.

 

[spyguy]

That's why I asked, because I was unaware of any other ways to do that, except maybe I saw mention of changing cpus settings in bios from stock to something else. Im not comfortable possibly lowering the life expectancy of my cpu by oc, but I thought hey why not ask if there were some settings to mess around with.

Yea, drop the ~30 year life span to just 25 or possibly even just 20 years.

Is it really that minor?

 

[Finstar]

That's why I asked, because I was unaware of any other ways to do that, except maybe I saw mention of changing cpus settings in bios from stock to something else. Im not comfortable possibly lowering the life expectancy of my cpu by oc, but I thought hey why not ask if there were some settings to mess around with.

Yea, drop the ~30 year life span to just 25 or possibly even just 20 years.

Is it really that minor?

Yes, unless you feed it with serious overvoltage it will last well beyond the point of coming obsolete.

 

[spyguy]

I bought a 3 year warranty I wonder if that would void it.

 

[spyguy]

I saw someone mess around with clock ratio. Is that an avenue worth exploring or are the 7700k chips turbo boost the max you can get without ocing?

 

[Finstar]

I bought a 3 year warranty I wonder if that would void it.

It will void it unless you bought Intels performance tuning protection plan which means that Intel will give you a new cpu if manage to somehow kill your old one.

 

[Finstar]

I saw someone mess around with clock ration. Is that an avenue worth exploring or are the 7700k chips turbo boost the max you can get without ocing?

It's absolutely worth it. The 7700k boosts to 4.5GHz and that's single core only. Where as good quality chips can be overclocked up to 5GHz or even beyond.

 

[4745454b]

The 2500K would go to 5GHz+. I thought the 7700K due to heat reasons will only hit 4.8 or 4.9GHz? I wouldn't count on 5GHz with the 7700K.

 

[spyguy]

The 2500K would go to 5GHz+. I thought the 7700K due to heat reasons will only hit 4.8 or 4.9GHz? I wouldn't count on 5GHz with the 7700K.

I saw a video on youtube of a supposedly stable 5 or 5.1 ghz on a 7700k

 

[Finstar]

The 2500K would go to 5GHz+. I thought the 7700K due to heat reasons will only hit 4.8 or 4.9GHz? I wouldn't count on 5GHz with the 7700K.

Most can do 5GHz with proper cooling + delid, some without delidding.