Oc Not Producing Much Gain

[mgsmid]

i over clocked my q9550 from 2.83 to 3.4 and i didn't see much performance gain... anywhere... I'm assuming that I'm bottle necking q9550, Evga 750ftw, Evga 9800gtx+, 4gig corsair 5-5-5-18 pc 6400, 500 barracuda 7200.11 32mb. could someone point out my issue and give a cheaper solution

[Kingfisher]

Well, if alot of folks had your PC I doubt bottleneck is a word they would use.

What kind of performance are you talking about?

Is it because your 3dmark scores didnt go up?

[IVIYTH0S]

those timings are kind of high for 800mhz ram, try running them at 4-4-4-12. You should see a substantial increase in performance then.

[ccokeman]

It depends on the scores and the FPS in the games you are playing. Which Corsair ram is it? the 9800GTX will start becoming your bottleneck in games if you turn the eye candy on.

[Marne_Aeok]

i thought 750 was a bad mobo for ocing?

[ebarone]

Where were you looking to improve? Games or number crunching or what? You can always try out wprime with and without the OC and see your results, but if you're looking for visible performance gains in games, you likely wont see them. Most games now dont care how many cores or how fast your proc is, only how beefy your video card is. And with that setup, you probably already have fantastic performance, so slightly more fantastic will still appear as regular fantastic performance in most areas.