Solved good idea to overclock intel i7

[DarthZash]

I was wondering is it a good idea to OC my i7 3770? or would it just waste power and shortening its life spam.

 

[M1GU31]

Depeneds for what purpose. Are you haveing issues with a certain program and want to boost perferomance or you just kind of want that extra horsepower just to have it? It's all up to you, I have my processor overclocked because I want that extra horse power since I run games on mine but everyone has their own purpose for their own doing and such. I wouldn't say a waste unless it does no performance gains, can possibly shorten the life span but you're more likely to just get a new cpu by the time it goes out. Though somtimes hardware can give suprises and doing things at unexpected times or possibly nothing could happen and would of lasted just as long so you're taking that risk. All in all it's your choice and behind what reasoning you believe it would be a good idea to overclock it.

Also another thing you got to think about is do you have sufficient cooling. Will your processor get too hot if clocked to high, is it stable. Do I have suffcient power to handle the extra power being juiced from my power supply. Does my motherboard handle overclocking a processor well or does it support overclocking at all. Got to take all these things into account when planing to do these type of things like overclocking.

 

[NoN]

I was wondering is it a good idea to OC my i7 3770? or would it just waste power and shortening its life spam.

If you have a non "K" i7 3770 i wouldn't bother overclocking as you might have to do it through "BCLK Frequency" and it is not the icore that will suffer but the others PCI/PCI express components to raise too much power. And yes, care about a cooling solution.

 

[whs]

I would not do it. The gain is marginal and the risks are high. And in any case you'd need better cooling.

 

[DarthZash]

I have the cooling to do it its sitting at 30 c right now. but i am using a aisuite2 provided my asus And it recommended to OV to 4.3 witch i did. All the voltage settings are manage by that program. but if it dosent accelerate loading times then its useless.

check my system specs

 

[whs]

but if it dosent accelerate loading times then its useless.

How is that. Loading times should already be instant from your Intel SSD.

 

[DarthZash]

it is for the os. but my games like bf4 take way to long to load and guild wars 2. all my games are sitting in the hard drive

 

[whs]

More CPU power will not help. Your problem is the HDD access speed. Get another SSD just to store the games. The access speed of a SSD is 150 times faster than that of a HDD.

More RAM may also help a little, but not as much as a SSD.

 

[DarthZash]

any thoughts of a good one. Should I put back my cpu default setting?

the write speed of the HD is arround 130 mb/sec

 

[whs]

It's not the R/W speed of the HDD. It is the access time that is very slow.

I saw you have Mushkin RAM. They make good SSDs too. I have 2 from them and they are fast. Last month I bought another one - a 240GB for $138 on special at Newegg. Have to watch for the sales.

I use the 240GB model to run all my virtual machines from an external enclosure attached via USB3. There is hardly a performance difference to my internal SSD which is a Crucial M4.

Right now the Mushkins are not on special.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produ...MATCH&Description=mushkin+SSD&N=-1&isNodeId=1

 

[DarthZash]

i just transfer BF4 over to my ssd the loading time was slightly faster. I am think its the game thats not optimized very well.

I got another question that is out of subject of this. But it seems that i can t transfer any files to my external drives. its stop transferring about 1/4 way it stays their.

 

[whs]

What kind of files are you trying to transfer ??

 

[DarthZash]

any files really. when its a big file 30gb it says prepare to copy and the windows disappear and nothing happens. but i can do this on my old computer no problem.

 

[whs]

That is really odd. Try this:

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/516-context-menu-add-copy-folder-move-folder.html

 

[DarthZash]

it seems that it stop for a while then eventually it transfers. but it works now...
odd thanks a lot for the help.

So should i put back my default cpu settings?

 

[whs]

That's up to you. If it works without problems, you might as well leave it as is. Just keep controling the temps.

 

[mjf]

I have an i7 2600k and regularly overclock it if I'm doing computationally intensive tasks (eg. video encoding). I don't overclock it most of the time. Also, I have a well ventilated case and definitely do not use the stock cooler (see my specs). If you want to overclock I'd strongly recommend a good non stock cooler at ~$30-40. I use HW Monitor when I overclock and the CPU always stays within specs with all 8 threads going flat out. I use my Asus motherboard Turbo mode and don't overclock too hard.

I believe the 3rd and 4th gen Intel i7s run hotter so I'd certainly monitor the core temps and CPU power usage.

However, overclocking may affect your warranty which is puzzling since you pay extra for the "k" overclock capability.

 

[tinmar49]

If you can overclock from 3.4g to 4.5g you will have only 1/3 more speed, is it worth it? Maybe there is a problem with the optimisation of your system. One of my pc's has a processor of one third of the power of yours, but with a Samsung 840 pro running well, it opens and runs superbly. Your processor is one of the high end components already.