Worth OCing?

Hi,

I would like to ask You guys, if it is worth to actually bother OCing my CPU at this stage.

I got an AMD Athlon II x4 640 running at stock 3.0Ghz

I got some stock cooling, no extra fans, no water cooling ect.

My PSU is a 450W no brand one but it is relatively new (bought about 3-4 months ago)

I already OCed my GPU (HD5670 Iceq) up to 820Mhz GPU and 1030Mhz Memory clocks and I also OCed my double Geil DDR3's 2GB sticks up to 1600.

It all runs fine and stable, so I was wondering, since my ASRock N68-GS3 UCC has an option to play around with CPU clocks, if it is anyhow timeworthy to fool around with it.

Oh.. typos..

Hi,

I would like to ask You guys, if it is worth to actually bother OCing my CPU at this stage.

I got an AMD Athlon II x4 640 running at stock 3.0Ghz

I got some stock cooling, no extra fans, no water cooling ect.

My PSU is a 450W no brand one but it is relatively new (bought about 3-4 months ago)

I already OCed my GPU (HD5670 Iceq) up to 820Mhz GPU and 1030Mhz Memory clocks and I also OCed my double Geil DDR3's 2GB sticks up to 1600.

It all runs fine and stable, so I was wondering, since my ASRock N68-GS3 UCC has an option to play around with CPU clocks, if it is anyhow timeworthy to fool around with it.

Oh.. typos..

Mareczek99

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Hi,

I would like to ask You guys, if it is worth to actually bother OCing my CPU at this stage.

I got an AMD Athlon II x4 640 running at stock 3.0Ghz

I got some stock cooling, no extra fans, no water cooling ect.

My PSU is a 450W no brand one but it is relatively new (bought about 3-4 months ago)

I already OCed my GPU (HD5670 Iceq) up to 820Mhz GPU and 1030Mhz Memory clocks and I also OCed my double Geil DDR3's 2GB sticks up to 1600.

It all runs fine and stable, so I was wondering, since my ASRock N68-GS3 UCC has an option to play around with CPU clocks, if it is anyhow timeworthy to fool around with it.

Oh.. typos..

swehunt

I got a 18,5 inch monitor supporting up to 1600x900 but I usually play at 1366x768 with 4x AA. I know that card is a budget (though plays most games with high settings and AA + Vsync fine) I will buy a 6850 soon but I wanted to know, if the Athlon II x4 640 can squeeze out some additional power via OverClocking it.

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[QUOTE="Mareczek99"]

Hi,

I would like to ask You guys, if it is worth to actually bother OCing my CPU at this stage.

I got an AMD Athlon II x4 640 running at stock 3.0Ghz

I got some stock cooling, no extra fans, no water cooling ect.

My PSU is a 450W no brand one but it is relatively new (bought about 3-4 months ago)

I already OCed my GPU (HD5670 Iceq) up to 820Mhz GPU and 1030Mhz Memory clocks and I also OCed my double Geil DDR3's 2GB sticks up to 1600.

It all runs fine and stable, so I was wondering, since my ASRock N68-GS3 UCC has an option to play around with CPU clocks, if it is anyhow timeworthy to fool around with it.

Oh.. typos..

Mareczek99

I got a 18,5 inch monitor supporting up to 1600x900 but I usually play at 1366x768 with 4x AA. I know that card is a budget (though plays most games with high settings and AA + Vsync fine) I will buy a 6850 soon but I wanted to know, if the Athlon II x4 640 can squeeze out some additional power via OverClocking it.

Depends on how you overclock it, but you'll need an insane voltage increase to get it stable around 3.7ghz-4.0ghz(and I'm not sure that's possible).

Your system is well balanced and there's no reason to overclock anything. Only if you get a better gfx card like 6870, then a little CPU overclock would make sense. And no reason to lower the resolution eather, especially for an LCD monitor. I play at 1920x1080 with HD4670 512MB, so I'm sure your 5670 can handle 1600x900 just fine.

Your system is well balanced and there's no reason to overclock anything. Only if you get a better gfx card like 6870, then a little CPU overclock would make sense. And no reason to lower the resolution eather, especially for an LCD monitor. I play at 1920x1080 with HD4670 512MB, so I'm sure your 5670 can handle 1600x900 just fine.

gamerns

That is true, but I get some issues with screen size and position while swapping resolutions, so in games that does not support 1600x900 will have to swich back. Sadly my monitor does not auto-adjust itself when jumping from 1600x900 which is kind of bummer really. Dunno why..

When you change the resolution just click the "auto" button on your monitor and it should set everything right, and it will probably remember that setting, too.

When you change the resolution just click the "auto" button on your monitor and it should set everything right, and it will probably remember that setting, too.

gamerns

I tried, but it seems to not remember that setting. I can adjust it manually, but I truly hate doing that.

It'd a LED Phillips 196VL and seems like 1600x900 is simply fit to the screen but it looses it's sharpness.

Is it possible it's not a fully supported res. but shrunk to fit the screen?

I don't really mind playing on 1366x768 in a screen this size with 4x AA but beeing able to play on 1600x900 would be nice actually.