Help with OC and benchmark

bluereddeer · February 29, 2020

Hi there. Im new to building and tweaking my own computers. In the past i mainly used my parents old stuff but I got to build my own computer for the first time a bit ago.

When i was looking up stuff and talking to friends about parts we saw that they expected new GPUs to come out this year perhaps. So it would have been a bit of a waste to spend my savings to get a big expensive card right now when new cards like big navi and new nvidia are coming out really soon. I got a really good deal on 2060 super which i am using until then. It was very very cheap like 70 dollars cheaper then ive ever seen one. However it just falls a bit short of playing some games and stuff that i want on 1440p60fps ultra. So i want to try and get as close to that as possible in the meantime and i want to do that by overclocking it.

Now i know theres guides out there about overclocking. But i can follow them and ask questions on those guides or something. What i want to do is be able to do some overclocking and get things dialed in and then benchmark it so i know how much better ive gotten things. Now i know the best way to do real gaming performance is run games. But i want to look into doing more benchmarks and OC in the future so i want to gain experience now.

The problem is i dont really know what benchmarks there are and ways to check stability. The only things i know really are prime95 and cinebench and maybe ive heard the term timespy before. I know that userbenchmark has something too. But i dont know if they are any good and reccomended by the community or if they are safe to use, ive heard the time "power virus" before and i know when i ran prime95 my temperatures were like super high for me compared to what is usual. (middle 80 degrees celsius) So i dont want to do anything unsafe or get a power virus.

Now i want to run this overclock alot while im doing gaming and stuff as well. So lets say for simplicity sake 24/7. If you are trying to get high score overclock you only have to get stable through the benchmark test. But I dont want to be 3 or 4 hours into a game with my friends and then i crash. So i am wondering if you need to sort of "dial it back" a bit from the absolute most you can get out of your GPU. So you get more performance then just stock but not push it all the way to the limit so that youre running a bit stable. How would I go about that if i had to do that and how do you work out what is a "stable safe" overclock vs pushing it to the absolute limit?

Sorry if this question is a bit vague but im still trying to learn alot.

Here are my specs

CPU ryzen 3700x
CPU cooling noctua d15
GPU gigabyte 2060 super
Memory 2x16gb 3200mz 2x8gb 3200mz
Motherboard asrock phantom gaming 4
Power supply evga supernova 1000w g2

Storage 500 gb NVME 1TB sata SSD for games and 2TB HDD

GamerBlake · February 29, 2020

2 minutes ago, bluereddeer said:

Hi there. Im new to building and tweaking my own computers. In the past i mainly used my parents old stuff but I got to build my own computer for the first time a bit ago.

When i was looking up stuff and talking to friends about parts we saw that they expected new GPUs to come out this year perhaps. So it would have been a bit of a waste to spend my savings to get a big expensive card right now when new cards like big navi and new nvidia are coming out really soon. I got a really good deal on 2060 super which i am using until then. It was very very cheap like 70 dollars cheaper then ive ever seen one. However it just falls a bit short of playing some games and stuff that i want on 1440p60fps ultra. So i want to try and get as close to that as possible in the meantime and i want to do that by overclocking it.

Now i know theres guides out there about overclocking. But i can follow them and ask questions on those guides or something. What i want to do is be able to do some overclocking and get things dialed in and then benchmark it so i know how much better ive gotten things. Now i know the best way to do real gaming performance is run games. But i want to look into doing more benchmarks and OC in the future so i want to gain experience now.

The problem is i dont really know what benchmarks there are and ways to check stability. The only things i know really are prime95 and cinebench and maybe ive heard the term timespy before. I know that userbenchmark has something too. But i dont know if they are any good and reccomended by the community or if they are safe to use, ive heard the time "power virus" before and i know when i ran prime95 my temperatures were like super high for me compared to what is usual. (middle 80 degrees celsius) So i dont want to do anything unsafe or get a power virus.

Now i want to run this overclock alot while im doing gaming and stuff as well. So lets say for simplicity sake 24/7. If you are trying to get high score overclock you only have to get stable through the benchmark test. But I dont want to be 3 or 4 hours into a game with my friends and then i crash. So i am wondering if you need to sort of "dial it back" a bit from the absolute most you can get out of your GPU. So you get more performance then just stock but not push it all the way to the limit so that youre running a bit stable. How would I go about that if i had to do that and how do you work out what is a "stable safe" overclock vs pushing it to the absolute limit?

Sorry if this question is a bit vague but im still trying to learn alot.

Here are my specs

CPU ryzen 3700x
CPU cooling noctua d15
GPU gigabyte 2060 super
Memory 2x16gb 3200mz 2x8gb 3200mz
Motherboard asrock phantom gaming 4
Power supply evga supernova 1000w g2

Storage 500 gb NVME 1TB sata SSD for games and 2TB HDD