Question about my cpu overclock

[rpalmz46]

Hi,

I was wondering if it is at all possible that my cpu overclocked to 4.2ghz isn't actually increasing my performance like I just recently got a gtx 1070 and I've been playing a lot of wow recently in some of the intense invasion legion zones. (For anyone that knows what the areas are like) My main question is should I with a gtx 1070 be maxing wow 60 fps at 1080p or can my overclock possibly be downgrading some of my performance. It is stable in all the testing I've done and havn't gotten any bluescreens.

Thanks for any replies in advance.

 

My Specs:

Asus Gtx 1070 Strix

I5-4690k 3.5ghz stock - 4.2ghz overclocked currently

hyper 212 evo cooler

msi z97 pc mate

1tb toshiba hdd

12gb or ram

Corsair CS650m psu

[ARikozuM]

WoW relies more on the CPU. An overclock will help more.

[rpalmz46]

Just now, ARikozuM said:

WoW relies more on the CPU. An overclock will help more.

Yeah I knew that which is why i originally wanted to overclock I was just wondering if based on my chip, motherboard, and power supply if maybe I pushed it too far and somehow its like at 4.2ghz and not actually giving me the performance of it but I guess that would probably mean I would be bluescreening.

[ARikozuM]

Only way to check is to see the CPU usage via Task Mgr. If it's at 100%, an overclock can help. If it's at 50%, it may help. If it's at 10%, nope.

[rpalmz46]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

Only way to check is to see the CPU usage via Task Mgr. If it's at 100%, an overclock can help. If it's at 50%, it may help. If it's at 10%, nope.

Im sitting at about 30% usage in wow according to MSI Afterburner in game monitoring, task manager says the same but it changes drastically when you alt tab to check it down to like 2%. It fluctuates seemingly between 30-50% usage.

[ARikozuM]

Just now, rpalmz46 said:

Im sitting at about 30% usage in wow according to MSI Afterburner in game monitoring, task manager says the same but it changes drastically when you alt tab to check it down to like 2%. It fluctuates seemingly between 30-50% usage.

You won't benefit much from an overclock then. Your CPU isn't being asked to do anything else.

You could try to unlock V-Sync to get more usage.

[rpalmz46]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

You won't benefit much from an overclock then. Your CPU isn't being asked to do anything else.

You could try to unlock V-Sync to get more usage.

I see thats sort of lame wish I could force make it use more for better performance if there was a safe way of doing it or any way of doing it. But anyways thanks for the responses appreciate it.

[tiberiusmoon5]

your spec's didnt show a ssd, maybe upgrade to that?

[ARikozuM]

8 hours ago, rpalmz46 said:

I see thats sort of lame wish I could force make it use more for better performance if there was a safe way of doing it or any way of doing it. But anyways thanks for the responses appreciate it.

As @TiberiusMoon mentioned, can you get an SSD (which would usually be for the OS) and use it for WoW?

[Imakuni]

8 hours ago, ARikozuM said:

Only way to check is to see the CPU usage via Task Mgr. If it's at 100%, an overclock can help. If it's at 50%, it may help. If it's at 10%, nope.

Afaik, WoW is a single core app. I could be wrong here (I didn't double check before writting), but assuming I'm not, 30% is exactly a full core being hammered to the max, + some extra fat from the OS and such. An OC will help.

8 hours ago, rpalmz46 said:

I see thats sort of lame wish I could force make it use more for better performance if there was a safe way of doing it or any way of doing it. But anyways thanks for the responses appreciate it.

Go ask the devs to optimize WoW for quad core CPUs and pray. That's really all you can do.