Less cores = higher OC?

[0wN3r]

Hi there again guys,

I was just wondering, whether disabling 2 of my 6 cores in 5820k would allow me to achieve better overclocking possibilities?

The thing is that I am unsatisfied with the results of running ArmA III @ 4.0GHz/6 cores, and wish to do better.

On the other hand, how does disabling some of the cores affect the OC possibilities of the other cores?

Thanks in advance!
 

[The Official Czex]

Disabling hyperthreading will help increase OC potential.

 

More physical cores just bumps up the temperature of the entire CPU package.

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Well I know the guy who got 8.495Ghz on a 8350 and he had to disable 7 cores to get that working. However I doubt it hinders OC'ing ability that much. So long as you have a good enough cooler you should be perfectly fine to overclock further.

Also pretty much all ARMA games are optimized like shit, so it may be that.

 

EDIT: What GPU do you have?

[007agentHP]

it should case it needs less voltage and power

but why dont you just test it out yourself?

*ONLY IF YOUR HITTING A VOLTAGE LIMIT*

[Guest]

do -threads 12 and that should help

Don't ever disable cores.

edit: right click on Arma 3 set launch options and put -threads 12

[pokechat8978]

do -threads 16 and that should help

Don't ever disable cores.

edit: right click on Arma 3 set launch options and put -threads 16

Shouldn't it be -threads 12?

OP has a 5820k

[Guest]

Shouldn't it be -threads 12?

OP has a 5820k

yep I did maths wrong again...

I'm really smart today

[Aytex]

Well I know the guy who got 8.495Ghz on a 8350 and he had to disable 7 cores to get that working. However I doubt it hinders OC'ing ability that much. So long as you have a good enough cooler you should be perfectly fine to overclock further.

Also pretty much all ARMA games are optimized like shit, so it may be that.

 

EDIT: What GPU do you have?

why didn't he contact Guinness then, thats a world record...

[Belgarathian]

Hi there again guys,

I was just wondering, whether disabling 2 of my 6 cores in 5820k would allow me to achieve better overclocking possibilities?

The thing is that I am unsatisfied with the results of running ArmA III @ 4.0GHz/6 cores, and wish to do better.

On the other hand, how does disabling some of the cores affect the OC possibilities of the other cores?

Thanks in advance!

 

 

I got confused when you said that you're unhappy with your ArmA III performance @ 4GHz on 6 cores... I'm assuming this is 12 threads? 

 

I know the game isn't on the best engine in the world but I really think that CPU limitations isn't you're issue here, and that less cores in favour of a higher OC for single thread performance is not going to show meaningful improvement in your experience. 

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

why didn't he contact Guinness then, thats a world record...

idk, I met him when I was helping my friend sell his R9 270X's. I'm doing an interview with him sometime in the next week for my YouTube channel. He lives less than 10 minutes from me lol.

 

[0wN3r]

Well I know the guy who got 8.495Ghz on a 8350 and he had to disable 7 cores to get that working. However I doubt it hinders OC'ing ability that much. So long as you have a good enough cooler you should be perfectly fine to overclock further.

Also pretty much all ARMA games are optimized like shit, so it may be that.

EDIT: What GPU do you have?

I am currently running a crappy MSI 760 Oc Gaming (2GB) Which I know is not good, but well.. Having bought asus x99 sabertooth and NVMe for over 500$ in total I limited my budget a little. I bought used 760 with plans to upgrade in the future

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

I am currently running a crappy MSI 760 Oc Gaming (2GB) Which I know is not good, but well.. Having bought asus x99 sabertooth and NVMe for over 500$ in total I limited my budget a little. I bought used 760 with plans to upgrade in the future

The 760 isn't bad at all, maybe youre just reaching it's potential in games?

[0wN3r]

I got confused when you said that you're unhappy with your ArmA III performance @ 4GHz on 6 cores... I'm assuming this is 12 threads?

I know the game isn't on the best engine in the world but I really think that CPU limitations isn't you're issue here, and that less cores in favour of a higher OC for single thread performance is not going to show meaningful improvement in your experience.

Well the thing is ArmA is like super-CPU intensive and the less, better clocked cores would do a trick there, will check tomorrow and post an update here!

yep I did maths wrong again...

I'm really smart today

[0wN3r]

The 760 isn't bad at all, maybe youre just reaching it's potential in games?

Well now I see how my comment aounded [emoji14] I know it's not that bad, the thing is I do indeed reach the upper boundary of its possibilities Im running 2560*1080

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Well now I see how my comment aounded [emoji14] I know it's not that bad, the thing is I do indeed reach the upper boundary of its possibilities Im running 2560*1080

Well it won't go too far at that resolution. Have you OC'd the GPU itself?

[Jumper118]

Well I know the guy who got 8.495Ghz on a 8350 and he had to disable 7 cores to get that working. However I doubt it hinders OC'ing ability that much. So long as you have a good enough cooler you should be perfectly fine to overclock further.

Also pretty much all ARMA games are optimized like shit, so it may be that.

 

EDIT: What GPU do you have?

what's his name on hwbot

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

what's his name on hwbot

Might be Chew*

[Belgarathian]

I am currently running a crappy MSI 760 Oc Gaming (2GB) Which I know is not good, but well.. Having bought asus x99 sabertooth and NVMe for over 500$ in total I limited my budget a little. I bought used 760 with plans to upgrade in the future

 

 

Well now I see how my comment aounded [emoji14] I know it's not that bad, the thing is I do indeed reach the upper boundary of its possibilities Im running 2560*1080

 

... I seriously think your issue is your GPU. I would be so, SO surprised if you were CPU bound by ArmA III

 

 

Well the thing is ArmA is like super-CPU intensive and the less, better clocked cores would do a trick there, will check tomorrow and post an update here!

 

Task manager shows 100% CPU usage while running the game, with 90%+ of the CPU usage bound to ArmA III?

[CatCloud]

Woah woah woah, hold on.. Arma 3 and a 760 and you're unhappy with the performance and you want to buff your CPU!?

PLEASE, there is a pink elephant in the room.

Yes the game likes CPUs, but in this case I doubt it's the problem.

As for you're question.. Well you got you're answer already from others.

[Nena Trinity]

why didn't he contact Guinness then, thats a world record...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKN4VMOenNM

AMD has 8.7GHz as record with FX-8370...