Worth overclocking Phenom II X6 1055t.

[lazyboy947]

Have a Phenom II X6 1055t@2.8GHz (stock), a MSI NF750-G55 motherboard, 8gb kingston hyperx ram @1600, down to 1333 due to motherboard limitations at stock. 500 watt raidmax psu that works, but i dont trust for a major overclock, XFX radeon hd 6770, zalman cnps 9900 max, thermaltake element g case.

I know most games dont utilize 4 cores and with 6 cores i really dont see a major reason to OC, beside the ram. would i see an increase in preformance in games and other with an OC? atm at stock i play BF3 on high at 1080p around 30-40 fps. which i know is mostly gpu, and is good fps for me. and i can get the cpu to 3.3GHz using the motherboard built in overclock switch and it was stable for gaming. should i do an OC? use the OC switch again? or do it in the bios? is the cpu clock speed increase gonna show some better preformance, and the ram increase?

 

[FPSmadMEDIC]

Hio

I would go for the best cpu oc possible on stock volts b/c any OC with no temp gain ROCKS. (..and.. I'm a low risk kind of geek. 😛 ) That mobo should easily do 13 - 14x 250mhz on 1.3v -1.4v.

I doubt you'll see much, if any, performance loss by running the NB/HT and memory at stock. If you set the FSB to 250mhz, the NB, HT and memory speeds will not show odd numbers when you lower the respective multi's.

What are your temps like ?

I have the same motherboard with the Phenom II x6 1065t, NB at 2500mhz @ 1.3v NB-VDD Voltage, and the vcore @ 1.3 to achieve a steady 3500mhz on my cores. Below is the link to the thread I started and the links to the photos are all over in there.
http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-1936928/phenom-1065t-msi-nf750-g55-mobo-voltage.html

 

[lazyboy947]

little late to the party lol alrdy changed boards since.

 

[FPSmadMEDIC]

little late to the party lol alrdy changed boards since.

I figured just wanted to chime in because that board and cpu can OC rather well if you pull the MSI heatsink out and reapply thermal compound to assure your NB is safe. I have no special fan or heatsink on my NB and am doing great! You should use that chip and board to get some practice overclocking on with the FSB, if you can figure that out actual Black Editions will be a breeze for you to overclock.