PC Upgrade

[Pitu189]

Hey guys,

 

I want to overclock my build. I have an i7 4770k at 3.5 ghz( is it ok to overclock it at 4.0 or higher(how high is the max you recommend?), I have a Corsair h110 liquid cooler on the CPU), 32GB of ram( Corsair Vengeance 1666mhz), one GTX Titan and a 27' 60Hz monitor. I want to have better fps( I get 60+ already on ultra) but a friend of mine has an overclocked 770 and gets 10-20 more fps, I know I will not see the difference but it will help when I will record gameplay videos. Also down the road I want to upgrade to a 3 23' 1080p at 120hz monitor setup. Is it worth to overclock and liquid cool the GPU until I get the monitor upgrade and do the same with a second GTX Titan? This also leads to my second question, will 2 stock GTX Titans be enough to run 60+ fps at ultra or very high (on 3 monitors also I would like more that 60 fps thou, somewhere around 80) or should I overclock and water cool them? Would like to not have to water cool them if I overclock because this also means to get a bigger case. Thank you in advance for the help. 

[Dude]

You can overclock it through Nvidia Inspector. I do love Nvidia Inspector. It can provide you with many other services too including temperatures and clock speeds.

[D2ultima]

1 - What in the world is 1666MHz RAM? O_O

2 - I think your monitor is likely higher resolution than his, or he is running his games at a lower resolution. Statistically, a 770 would need to be overclocked past 1500MHz on the core to match a stock titan, not even counting the memory clock. If he had TWO 770s, that'd make more sense.

3 - I think two titans is quite enough to grant you 5760 * 1080 gaming at ultra getting above 60fps.

4 - If your titan is a reference cooler I'm sorry; I don't think reference coolers are that good for OCing. If you watercooled them though, that may make a nice difference.

5 - Your CPU can easily hit 4.5GHz, though I don't know the voltage/current limit/etc you'd need for it. I'd aim for that speed.

6 - If you go the double-titan route, might I suggest a nVidia 3D vision 2 glasses kit? I think surround 3D would be beautiful.

7 - If you're gonna get two titans, might as well watercool and OC them to fit your needs if you're not getting enough frames. I still say though, a single 770 shouldn't even ballpark a titan. Two 770s smoke a single titan even at 80% efficiency in a game, though. I don't know about 10-20fps, but they definitely outperform it. Anyway, if you have non-reference coolers you probably don't need to watercool. Good air cooling is usually more than sufficient for most instances; once your cooler is designed well enough.

 

In other words: if you've got such high end hardware and for any reason at all you're unsatisfied... it IS worth it to overclock =D. Why do you think these things were made? Kekekeke