Questions about my Q8300 and OCing it.

[KanagiF]

Okay so my friend and I have an extremely similar computer - Same video card, same RAM, but he has a 3.3 GHZ i5, I have a 2.5GHZ Q8300.

Using a game I tested the last couple days, World of Warcraft, he will run at 90FPS, I'll run at 60 (Given I usually stay at 60 since I have my monitor set to 60.) Neither of us lag. However, the second I start streaming, I shoot down to 20FPS, and my stream was extremely laggy with 100CPU. He was doing 1080 with 75-90% lead at 1080 output (His stream wasn't 1080 due to upload speed.)

My long-winded question ~ If I over-clock my CPU to about 3.1 GHZ (I've seen people get it to 3.1 stable, not sure above that.) Will our computer behave the same? Or even having the same CPU -speed- as him, is his being 'newer' still going to make it better? He has an 8MB L3 Cache for instance, I have none.

I also am trying to find more information about OCing it successfully.


But even if I take streaming out of the equation-

How come when both of us run just WoW, and neither of our processors are even close to maxed, his is always running better? Could it be a Windows settings, or...?

 

[alvine]

you cant compare apples to oranges
yes your cpu will be faster if you oc it to 3.1 but your friend has more cache on the processor and they are more efficient clock per clock
you would have to run your cpu at ~3.5ghz-3.6ghz to have similar speeds of your friends 3.1 newer cpu. his wow is playing better because his cpu is newer, more cache, better instructions, ddr3