To OC More Or Not

[Tarbot]

Should I OC higher?  I have a i5 9600K Prime95 stable at 5ghz & Vcore at 1.35 with a Powercolor Liquid Devil at a high factory OC out of the box...  Standard temps while gaming at 1080P extreme levels...  CPU 54C and GPU 59C (All on a custom water loop)...  Should I push them or not?  I know there is a little room left for the CPU and probably a lot more on the GPU...  Just GPU???

[Tarbot]

3 minutes ago, BlueScope819 said:

Giving me GPU temps doesn't let me know if you have headroom or not. Temp wise, yes, but what GPU? What settings?

It is the Powercolor Liquid Devil...   here is the spec tab...   https://www.powercolor.com/product?id=1573110646#spe  Factory with the unleashed BIOS on...

[jones177]

There is not much of a performance gain going past 5ghz but you can always test it yourself.

 

I run one of my i7 8086k at 5.1ghz and the other a 5ghz. The difference is zero performance gain. I leave it on because it creates no more heat than 5ghz and maybe one day something will actually run faster with it on.

 

It is about the same with 5.2 but that puts idles in the high 30s.

According to Gamers Nexus my next performance plato is at 5.35ghz and that is beyond my cooling solution.   

 

[Tarbot]

1 minute ago, jones177 said:

There is not much of a performance gain going past 5ghz but you can always test it yourself.

 

I run one of my i7 8086k at 5.1ghz and the other a 5ghz. The difference is zero performance gain. I leave it on because it creates no more heat than 5ghz and maybe one day something will actually run faster with it on.

 

It is about the same with 5.2 but that puts idles in the high 30s.

According to Gamers Nexus my next performance plato is at 5.35ghz and that is beyond my cooling solution.   

 

I will be upgrading to the 9900K in the fall along with another 2x8gb Corsair Vengance 3200 in memory and a needed boost in PSU...  Not sure on that one yet...  The GPU I am happy with as game designers take a little while to catch up (It's getting long in the tooth, but it handles anything perfectly so far...).  After this in two to three years it might be time to go back to AMD (Drain the bank account again!)...  Only time will tell.

[jones177]

I got about same performance with a i9 9900k.

It is at 5ghz all cores and idles in the low 30s with a Noctua NH-D15. Its performance in games is almost the same as the i7 8086k but it has a slower 2080 ti so it does not win.

It has 32gbs ram along with one of my i7 8086k but no games I have use it. If I bought ram today I would go with 16 but get something quicker that 3200.

 

I am looking into getting an i9 10900k. So far it does not look good. In game benches even with it overclocked the performance depends on the 2080 it used. I use an EVGA FTW3 Ulta and if the i9 is tested with less I get better frames. I have to see a lot more Youtube benches before I decide.

 

I will be looking a the next gen Ryzen but it has to perform in games better than an i9 10900k. 

 

 

[Tarbot]

6 hours ago, jones177 said:

I got about same performance with a i9 9900k.

It is at 5ghz all cores and idles in the low 30s with a Noctua NH-D15. Its performance in games is almost the same as the i7 8086k but it has a slower 2080 ti so it does not win.

It has 32gbs ram along with one of my i7 8086k but no games I have use it. If I bought ram today I would go with 16 but get something quicker that 3200.

 

I am looking into getting an i9 10900k. So far it does not look good. In game benches even with it overclocked the performance depends on the 2080 it used. I use an EVGA FTW3 Ulta and if the i9 is tested with less I get better frames. I have to see a lot more Youtube benches before I decide.

 

I will be looking a the next gen Ryzen but it has to perform in games better than an i9 10900k. 

 

 

I'm debating to blow up my MoBo and start new.  Wrong time to build a new PC it seems.  I can give it to my nephews or nieces...  so my decision is made...  I push it all to the limit and hope I have a PC or some semblance of it to pass along!

[jones177]

3 hours ago, Tarbot said:

I'm debating to blow up my MoBo and start new.  Wrong time to build a new PC it seems.  I can give it to my nephews or nieces...  so my decision is made...  I push it all to the limit and hope I have a PC or some semblance of it to pass along!

I usually keep my old computers in tact. When I don't I sometimes rebuild them at some point.

The last one was my i7 8700k/GTX 1080 ti set up. I retired it in 2018 and rebuilt it a few weeks ago.  I wanted to see how it behaved on some older games that acted strange with the 2080 ti. I did the tests then gave the rig to my Son since he needed a computer for editing videos.