Motherboards make a difference for overclocking?

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Im very new to the whole overclocking thing.

My computer runs great, I have no real need to overclock expect to get some extra fps in games.

Can you overclock with any motherboard? Or do you need some fancy dancy maximus board?

I've got a Gigabyte UD4H 1155 LGA socket.

I have a stock cooler but am looking to upgrade. Any air cooler suggestions?

The CPU im running is an I5 3570k :)
 
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Overclocking is worth it if you believe that you are bottlenecking your card or you want to squeeze a little bit more FPS from your games.

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You can only do a proper overclock on the ZX7/8 chipset boards, in your case, the Z77 chipset, so yes you will be able to OC

The Gigabyte Z77-UD4H board should be well able to let you do a good OC, it has an ample power phase configuration, and big heatsinks to cool the VRMs and MosFETs.

It depends on your budget, I would recommend the Cryorig R1 Ultimate or Noctua NH-D15, if you are in a budget, I would recommend the Hyper 212 Evo, H5 Ultimate, Raijintek Themis... Etc...

 
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Overclocking stresses a CPU and one of the most important things is delivering the correct amount of "clean" voltage to it. Obviously, higher speeds require more voltage and as your CPU is asked to deliver more and more speed, it will pull more voltage. As these loads are variable, going up and down, your MoBo's power delivery system struggles to deliver the correct amount of voltage to match the load. So on "serious overclocking" boards, a lot of additional money is spent on highly efficient components capable of delivering clean and stable voltages. This is also true of the PSU ... the MoBo can't do much if it's getting unstable or dirty power.

You can get up to 4.5 or 4.6 Ghz with your typical $125 - $150 MoBo.... you want to approach 4.7, 4,8 and above, then you might want to invest further. My youngest son has a 2600k that went to 4.8GHz no problem on a Thermalright Silver Arrow cooler using an Asus WS MoBo and Antec CP-850 PSU.

I dunno what's going on w/ air coolers these days but in the ast 2 months, everything is $20 more than it was in summer. If ya case doesn't imit what you can put in, then I'd suggest the Phanteks PH-TC14PE which you can color match to your system. I was buying them for $55 for builds over the summer but now they are running $75 and higher which is the same price as the Noctua NH-D14 which is almost as good as the Phanteks. The D15 model is better than both but $92.

If you have access to Scythe in your area, they have some fine coolers in the $50 range that give the above a run for their money .... if budget is an issue, you can always fall back to the Hyper 212 ($30) but expect temps 7-10C hotter than the above.

 
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Do you think power would be an issue?

I have a Corsair HX 750 watt power supply.

The thing is I have 2 way SLI GTX 760s

Only 8gb of ram, but I would like to go to 16gb soon

Will I still have room to overclock?
 
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Is overclocking even worth it at the moment you think?

I have Fallout 4 preordered and I want to play it at high settings at 1080p I was really wondering if overclocking would help me do that :)

Im also worried about messing up my baby PC (She is my only love)

I wont have the money to replace stuff should I overheat it.

Last time I tried overclocking was on some AMD 1.4 GHZ single core cpu, It was super old school messing around in the bios.

Eventually something went wrong with the bios and the computer wouldn't boot. Saddest experience of my life. Dont want it to happen again :/

 
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Overclocking is worth it if you believe that you are bottlenecking your card or you want to squeeze a little bit more FPS from your games.

If Bethesda make the effort of making SLI scaling not broken in Fallout 4, your SLI rig should be able to achieve those settings, you may have to go to medium settings, but that would be unlikely.

You probably won't mess up your baby (unless you're a complete retard) if you follow the steps on the YouTube guides by LinusTechTips, Paul's Hardware, TechYESCity, etc...

Again, that CPU was probably released when UEFI BIOS' weren't a thing, today it's harder to mess up your CPU and if you get stuck on anything just ask us on the Forum.
 
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I know Linus, and he could always help me out, he's just a super busy guy and doesnt have time for me 🙁
His videos are great help so I can always watch those! :)

Yes this was back in 2002 so no UEFI BIOS...

Anyways Thanks to all who contributed to my growing knowledge!

I'm Probably going to go with the Hyper 212 EVO for my cooling need :)
 
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Im thinking my GPU's are limited by the fact that I've only got 2gb vram.
For now its fine for 1080p, but soon its not going to be. :/
 
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You could just sell em later separately and get a better card next year, better start saving up now 😉 I would go for the R9 390 as your PSU can handle it

 
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Not so much.... alienbabletech did a study that showed no discernable difference in performance between 2Gb and 4Gb 770s in like 40 games. Guru3d did it with the 960 with similar results

http://www.guru3d.com/articles-pages/gigabyte-geforce-gtx-960-g1-gaming-4gb-review,12.html

https://www.pugetsystems.com/labs/articles/Video-Card-Performance-2GB-vs-4GB-Memory-154/

So while those test prove w/o a doubt that everyone screaming for 4GB back when the 7xx series was current was definitely barking up the wrong tree. The Guru3D shows that it is till very true today except that some of 2015's games like SoM, Witcher 3 etc have now broken that barrier. However 4 GB is more than sufficient for any resolution up to 4GB....even when utilities report that the system allocated more than 4 GB, this is wrong, ... if ya wanna know why, it is explained in detail here which should put thisissue to bed once and for all:

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/213069-is-4gb-of-vram-enough-amds-fury-x-faces-off-with-nvidias-gtx-980-ti-titan-x

If ya sold the 760's for $75 each, that would put you about half way to a 970 which is the current "best bang for the buck" available at this point in time w/ more than satisfactory performance at 1080p and 1440p.

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Powercolor/R9_390_PCS_Plus/30.html

The 970 tops the 390 outta the box, at 1080p and while it's about 1% behind at 1440p "outta the box", from your post it's obvious that you are not averse to overclocking.

The390 and 390x have limited overclocking headroom and overclock only about 7% ... with the 970 averaging about 17% OC's, it 's able to pass the 390 and 390x at both 1080p and 1440p when all cards are OC'd. Your HX750 will be more than enough PSU for two 970's in SLI... for the 390 / 390x you'll want 850 for CF.

 
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Yeah I guess, R9 390 would be more suited to 1440p.

 
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Im a big fan of Nvidia GPUs because of their support and technologies.

Their driver support is top notch.

Thanks for your suggestions, I'll probably wait a year then buy myself a top notch Nvidia gpu.

I just bought my second GTX 760 a couple weeks ago as a short term solution paid $140 which in my area of Canada is a good deal. Maxing Witcher 3 made me happy.

And dont get me wrong AMD makes great cards, I just like Nvidia better :)

Whatever replaces the 970 or even the 980 shall be what I would look at. And then look to SLI again. Cause SLI looks super sweet :)

Only thing is by then my i5 3570k wont be so cool :/
 
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Aaaaaaaandd thats why we have overcocking, or upgrades

 
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Master class PC gaming is so expensive 🙁

Its like do I eat? Or get that new Video card that just came out... Haha

Anyways thanks for answering all my questions and giving me a game plan!
 
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If you don't use Afterburner, then the 390 may be the better choice, if you do, then you need to go to 4k for the 390/390x to have an advantage .... will require bigger PSU tho... about 50 watts per card.




You know the old saying ... you can never be too rich ... too thin ... or have to much GFX power. New hardware solves the last two of those :)
 
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