Bartok14

So I followed the guide located within the FAQ section of the Overclocking subreddit for overclocking my 4670k. Read a few other guides as well as watched some videos. I'm just a little confused as to where to go from here so I'd appreciate any help anyone can offer. I'm mainly OCing this rig to get a bit of extra performance out of it, but also doing this as a trial run for the next PC I build. Managed to get a stable 4.4GHz OC on the 4670k at 1.265V. I only have a hyper 212 as my cooler so I didn't want to push the voltage up to past 1.3 and I couldn't stabilize 4.5 without having to go higher than 1.3V so I dropped the core multiplier back down to 4.4 and am happy with it running at 1.265V for my cooling solution. Unfortunately I couldn't OC the uncore past stock without running into stability issues so I currently have it set to stock 34 multiplier with the voltage set to auto. I had tried OC the uncore to 36 and it wasn't stable even at a Vring of 1.265 and according to the guide I was following it said you shouldn't have your Vring higher than your Vcore so I said screw it I guess I'll leave it at stock. I've done stress testing with the voltages for both Vcore and Vring set at override (Manual mode) to ensure no crazy voltage spikes. After not being able to OC the uncore I set my sights on the RAM but unfortunately my system is unstable going above 1600MHz. So here's what I'm wondering. I could increase the VCCIN to maybe get a bit more performance out of my CPU but I don't know if it's worth it. A guide on LTT said to just start with a value of 1.9 and do the OC's with that value. I currently have it set to auto which is about 1.776V so do you think I would see much more improvement if I were to manually set the VCCIN a bit higher? In terms of RAM speed I currently can't go above the 1600MHz setting, but it's a pair of Gskill Trident X which is rated for 2400MHz XMP so I could probably tighten up the timings but I also don't want to corrupt my windows and I dunno, do you think I'd see much more performance in a game like Warzone from increasing the timings? Warzone is probably the most intensive game I play and probably the worst in terms of real world applications that I'd be using before doing a new build down the road. Does the uncore really have to be within 200-300MHz of the cpu multiplier? The guide on this forum said it makes no difference but it's also from like 7 years ago so wondering what a fresh take on this is. With the OC dialed in to what I have it, I'm going to be putting the Voltage back to adaptive mode for both the Vcore and Vring. Then I'll be enabling EIST. My question is I locked all the cores to have the same multiplier for the sake of overclocking, do I now unlock them from having the same multiplier now that I have dialed in an OC? Not really sure if you leave them forced to be all running the same multiplier or not. Lastly is there anything I need to do with turbo boost in the bios settings? I really don't know how turbo boost would work on an OC chip, do I have to touch this setting after the OC or am I good to just leave these settings where they are? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I built my gaming pc 5-6 years ago and was all gung ho about playing tripple A titles. After going to school for 4 years the majority of what I do is just watch YouTube and Netflix, play some SC2 and league of legends. I just find I don't have the patience to play long video games anymore, maybe I am just burned out.

If you are in school I would recommend getting the best bang for your buck devices. Cell phones only really have a 2 year shelf life of quality, after that they tend to slow down and the battery drains much faster. Maybe you can get 3 years of use but it depends on what you are willing to live with. So for the phone try to decide what you want that you are willing to live with. There's nothing wrong with buying a $600 phone or even cheaper that does all the things you want. I spend most of my time on my phone watching Youtube, the rest is emails, and maybe a couple games. For that a $400 phone that has a decent display is really all you need, and yeah it will stop being great after a year and a half but then you can just get another one for $400 in two years time. Most companies also allow you to upgrade for free in a couple years time also so take that into account. But a new iPhone pro is what like over a thousand dollars? Ask yourself if you really need it. Same thing goes for laptops, they will only ever get slower over time compared to what is being released each year. So is it better to spend $2-3k now on a gaming laptop or just get a cheap one that you can work on and spend $1200 on a pc that you can build yourself that will probably outperform an expensive laptop. Going to school for 2-4 years is a big commitment and you never know what you might need while you are going there. So saving money upfront is always the right decision.

I mean to be fair Apple can manufacture any product it wants and charge whatever they want for it. People who buy Apple products have known for years that they are overspending and they still buy them. You should blame the consumers for buying their products in the first place because they've essentially given Apple a blank cheque to do whatever the fuck they want. How many different cables has Apple developed to plug in their devices. Got rid of the headphone jack so now it's easier to lose your earbuds and you gotta pay to replace your old ones that work fine with new Bluetooth ones. No removable back on their phone means you can't replace the battery easily. Their Macbooks have always had a problem with overheating. You had bend-gate. Reducing the ports on their macbooks to 1 or 2 USB type c ports so you gotta buy a fucking 60 dollar dongle. The list goes on. Apple has never been an innovator of making technology the best bang for the buck, or making technology long lasting. They make these changes little by little so that you just accept them in the end. Their whole model is based on being a wasteful company by making shitty products that break after 2 years so you need to buy a new one. Like there are only so many precious metals on the planet, we are gonna run out at some point. So no Apple doesn't give a fuck about being a 'green' company unless it's counting its money. Personally I can't believe that everyone is complaining about the $1000 dollar stand when they should be really upset about $200 vesa mount adaptor. That thing should cost $20 as a square piece of metal that just screws into the back of a monitor. People are arguing about the $1000 monitor stand, but what they really should be upset about in the new proprietary puck design that Apple is going to use to attach that stand to their monitor. But since they aren't it just means that everyone is going to accept it with the next roll out of products in 2021.

Hey Everyone it's my first post on these forums so I'm not sure if this is the right place but hopefully it's fine. So I just finished college and am broke so I was looking into an alternative way to watch videos while playing video games without buying an extra monitor. My desk is too small for an extra one anyways. I was thinking how it would be cool if you could adjust any application to whatever transparency you want. I was thinking for games like league of legends or starcraft 2 where I tend to listen to a bunch of videos on YouTube in the background while I'm playing. It would be nice to just be able to glance over to the corner of the screen to watch the video while I'm dead or just running across the map. To my knowledge I couldn't find anything about how to make something that isn't a file window more or less transparent. There is also the problem of having a video as the top layer but also being able to click the application that is behind it for productivity purposes and such. I was originally thinking maybe I could make league of legends 50% transparent so that I can watch whatever movie I wanted to in the background or something along those lines. I wasn't able to find any software that accomplished this after a few google searches so I decided to come here and see if anyone had any ideas. I stumbled across a browser called "Glass Browser" that is surprisingly intuitive to use. Instead of making an application transparent it just makes whatever is in your browser transparent so that you can watch something while working on something else. So essentially I can watch youtube or netflix now overlayed on top of league of legends at whatever transparency I want, and if I click the map behind the video is still acts as if I am in the game. Just wanted to share that with anyone that might be interested as it could also be useful for people that are learning a new software and watch a tutorial video without having to constantly minimize the program you are working with to see whats going on. I think this functionality could be really useful for other windows applications so if anyone knows of another program that also accomplishes this please let me know.