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[Ciggavelli]

What is the benefit of overclocking your CPU?

I did that shyt. Better benchmarking I really haven't noticed any practical difference though. But I don't use real CPU intensive shyt

 

[yseJ]

What is the benefit of overclocking your CPU?

not much practical benefit in 99% of cases, unless you OC it big. it does up performance though,but its usually barely noticeable.

 

[daze23]

What is the benefit of overclocking your CPU?

not much, unless your cpu sucks to begin with, and you're playing cpu intensive games (bf3, planetside 2, gta4, civ5, or any game where's there's a lot going on... or crappy ports that don't scale well over multicores )

 

[Leasy]

I did that shyt. Better benchmarking I really haven't noticed any practical difference though. But I don't use real CPU intensive shyt

not much practical benefit in 99% of cases, unless you OC it big. it does up performance though,but its usually barely noticeable.

not much, unless your cpu sucks to begin with, and you're playing cpu intensive games (bf3, planetside 2, gta4, civ5, or any game where's there's a lot going on... or crappy ports that don't scale well over multicores )

Ok. I am thinking about overclocking my CPU just to see if I notice a difference in my games for the hell of it.

 

[daze23]

Ok. I am thinking about overclocking my CPU just to see if I notice a difference in my games for the hell of it.

you should only notice it if before you were getting poor performance because your cpu was the bottleneck. or if you're staring at a fps counter

and you really should be testing every step of your overclock with a program like prime95, and monitoring your temps

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

otherwise everything might seem fine, while you're running your not too cpu-intensive stuff, but if someday you do run something that is very cpu intensive... bad things could happen (most likely just a shutdown). that prime95 program basically pushes your shyt to it's limits, so you can see right away what it can handle

all in all, it might not be something you want to get into, unless you really feel like you need it

 

[Leasy]

you should only notice it if before you were getting poor performance because your cpu was the bottleneck. or if you're staring at a fps counter

and you really should be testing every step of your overclock with a program like prime95, and monitoring your temps

http://www.mersenne.org/freesoft/

otherwise everything might seem fine, while you're running your not too cpu-intensive stuff, but if someday you do run something that is very cpu intensive... bad things could happen (most likely just a shutdown). that prime95 program basically pushes your shyt to it's limits, so you can see right away what it can handle

all in all, it might not be something you want to get into, unless you really feel like you need it

oh ok. Thanks for the info. What GP do you have

 

[daze23]

oh ok. Thanks for the info. What GP do you have

GP?

 

[Ciggavelli]

3DMark has no flickering but Heaven does

@2gunsup you're my last hope before a fresh Windows install. Can I do anything else to fix my shadow flickering problem?

fukk this shyt , I'm going to go fukking watch Dexter

 

[Leasy]

GP?

GP?

Sorry gpu

 

[daze23]

Sorry gpu

gtx 660

not the best gpu, but my shadows don't flicker

 

[Ciggavelli]

I know some of y'all where talking about buying GTA IV before. It's only 7.99 at GMG

http://www.greenmangaming.com/s/us/en/pc/games/action/grand-theft-auto-iv/

and 20% more off with this code: GMG20-4B9NY-L4FEN

 

[daze23]

Arma 3 got Steam workshop integration in the dev-build today

 

[Ciggavelli]

So many fukking Ls taken. I did a driver sweep and now my shyt won't recognize my third monitor

And still fukking flickering fukking shadows.

Fresh windows install now



Props to @2gunsup for all his help though

 

[Ciggavelli]

And the third monitor is back


Still jagged fukking shadows

 

[Leasy]

Update Status. I am becoming wayyy better in Battlefield. My first ever above 500. game in Kills Death ever.