Overclocking 5930k and Ram.

[AllYourF0rt]

Hi, I am doing my first OC on new computer system. I did an auto OC through BIOS 4.0GHZ for cpu and 2.4GHZ for RAM up from 2.13GHZ stock. I ran Prime95 and my CPU temps never went above 65 Celsius! Pretty good for air cooling.

Edited April 7, 2016 by AllYourF0rt

[MedievalNerd]

I personally haven't really seen substantial benefits when OC'ing my RAM. I'd focus more on getting your core ratio up, and once that's high enough and stable, move to trying to OC your cache ratio. I've seen marginal improvements to increasing it, but nothing astounding.

 

Cheers,

[AllYourF0rt]

So how beneficial is overclocking the CPU for gaming purposes? I know it's a stupid question is it worth me tinkering for only 5 more fps?

[Waco]

At 4K it matters a bit more.  Minimum FPS is really what matters more than anything, so yes, OC'ing is still worth it.

 

What are you using for stability testing?

[AllYourF0rt]

At 4K it matters a bit more.  Minimum FPS is really what matters more than anything, so yes, OC'ing is still worth it.

 

What are you using for stability testing?

Unique Valley and Prime 95. With Prime 95 I'm not sure that it's running or not.

[MedievalNerd]

So how beneficial is overclocking the CPU for gaming purposes? I know it's a stupid question is it worth me tinkering for only 5 more fps?

 

Considering how, still today, quite a few games are very heavy on a single thread, it's definitely worth it.

 

Maybe not get 'more' FPS on the high end, but you'll surely see much less FPS drops, as Waco said. (assuming that they are CPU related.) 

 

Although not necessarily fun, you can actually measure the gains you are getting by running the benchmarks of your favorite games before and after the OC.

Edited April 7, 2016 by MedievalNerd

[AllYourF0rt]

HWMonitor.txtShould I enable "Multicore Enhancement" in BIOS? I also wanted to say I have a good custom fan curve set for my GPU it never gets above 65-70c at load. However when I boot up I can hear the fans rev up really high then settle back down. It only happens at boot so I don't think it's an issue. I've included a copy of my HWMonitor.

Edited April 8, 2016 by AllYourF0rt

[MedievalNerd]

Why did you disable two of your cores?

 

Also, I havent noticed this setting you speak of, give it a whirl! For any stuff you aren't 100% sure might as well toggle it and see if you get any improvements.

 

I think fans and pump going at 100% on boot is normal, I get the very same behavior regardless of my fan profile.

 

At idle, I keep my front fans at 1000 rpm, rear fans at 900rpm. For watching movies and browsing I tend to keep my pump at 1900rpm (out of 4500).

 

Arr you using AI SUITE 3 for fan control? That's what I use and found it really easy to work with to build fan curves.

[AllYourF0rt]

Why did you disable two of your cores?

 

Also, I havent noticed this setting you speak of, give it a whirl! For any stuff you aren't 100% sure might as well toggle it and see if you get any improvements.

 

I think fans and pump going at 100% on boot is normal, I get the very same behavior regardless of my fan profile.

 

At idle, I keep my front fans at 1000 rpm, rear fans at 900rpm. For watching movies and browsing I tend to keep my pump at 1900rpm (out of 4500).

 

Arr you using AI SUITE 3 for fan control? That's what I use and found it really easy to work with to build fan curves.

I didn't disable my cores. Enable multicore from I understand is similar to unpark cores. Makes all cores run at 100% all the time. Would this decrease the lifespan of the cpu? What do you mean when you say pump? I don't have liquid cooling. I use EVGA precision for fan curve I use the aggressive fan profile. 

[MedievalNerd]

 

Why did you disable two of your cores?

 

Also, I havent noticed this setting you speak of, give it a whirl! For any stuff you aren't 100% sure might as well toggle it and see if you get any improvements.

 

I think fans and pump going at 100% on boot is normal, I get the very same behavior regardless of my fan profile.

 

At idle, I keep my front fans at 1000 rpm, rear fans at 900rpm. For watching movies and browsing I tend to keep my pump at 1900rpm (out of 4500).

 

Arr you using AI SUITE 3 for fan control? That's what I use and found it really easy to work with to build fan curves.

I didn't disable my cores. Enable multicore from I understand is similar to unpark cores. Makes all cores run at 100% all the time. Would this decrease the lifespan of the cpu? What do you mean when you say pump? I don't have liquid cooling. I use EVGA precision for fan curve I use the aggressive fan profile. 

 

 

Oh, my bad. I didnt' even read your CPU model properly. :/

 

Just saw this:

 

Processor 1 ID = 0

Number of cores 6 (max 8)

Number of threads 12 (max 16)

 

And assumed you had a 5960X with 2 cores disabled.

 

Also, yeah, sorry for the pump reference, I seem to assume many things theses days. You clearly said in your initial post you were running on air!

 

Pretty sure getting read of CPU Stepping would have 'some' effect on the lifespan of the CPU, it's probably similar to not having adaptive voltage. But I mean if you are within safe limits, I can't see that as something to be concerned with.

 

I personally can't have my Core on adaptive voltage, my 5820k just doesn't play nice with it. I leave it on fixed at 1.312, same with the cache voltage, which I keep at 1.163~.

 

But I do leave stepping on, so when I'm browsing they tend to all stay pretty much at 1.2Ghz each. You'll get really low idle temps this way.

 

If noise is something that bothers you I tend to setup my fan profiles in 2 or 3 plateaus. Idle, moderate, full. After a while I was able to see the average temperatures of my components, and just set the temperature cutoff in locations that makes it so that it doesn't jump between plateaus, but rather stays there once it reaches it. This avoids hearing you fans go up/down, which I find more distracting than having your fans full blast at all times. You cant' get used to it, but that's all more about personal taste.

 

For noise it's really just about experimenting how hot your component gets, and see how much fan speed it needs to be able to sustain it. Or whichever you that gets you to a comfortable setting that doesn't make you go crazy.

 

In the end as long as you aren't holding back the fan speed when you are near/on full load, then it's going to be fine. 

 

I'm not very familiar with HW Monitor, I prefer to use Aida64 with AI Suite III and Precision X.

That way I can peek at my system performance at all times. I highly recommend it!  One of the best thing is with something like this you can tell right away if you get a bottleneck somewhere.

 

 

 

Can you get more out of it at your current voltage? Is your core set to 1.36? or 1.42?

Edited April 8, 2016 by MedievalNerd

[AllYourF0rt]

Ok so I tried Folding@Home let it run at full power setting my CPU temps are 63c. Is this really high? I'm no longer overclocking  the CPU. I let it run all night.

Edited April 18, 2016 by AllYourF0rt