I7 920 Overclock for gaming with GTX 1070. Worth it? What's the simplest way?

[NoisanceRitual]

I7 920 Overclock for gaming with GTX 1070. Worth it? What's the simplest way to do this?

I never overclocked a cpu, but i have a corsair h80i so i guess i can do it safely?

Airflow is good too, i have a coolermaster case.

I don't know if there's an influence but my motherboard is a Asus P6T.

I'm running with 16gb ram.

 

So what would be the simplest way to do this and being very safe?

I really really can't get that cpu dead for some reason. If there's more than 5% chance it will fail within a short time let me know and i'll just forget about doing this.

I'm mainly asking because i upgraded from gtx 770 to gtx 1070 and it seems i don't have a lot more FPS in GTAV...

 

Thanks

 

 

 

[Psykocys]

I'm more well acquainted with previous amd than I am Intel, but this would be a good read.

 

http://vip.asus.com/forum/view.aspx?id=20081220191040237&board_id=1&model=P6T+Deluxe&SLanguage=en-us&page=1

 

[Wolther]

judging by this 

 There is still significant bottleneck @4ghz (like 20%-30% less gpu usage) when in the city. 

I'm guessing your CPU is pretty old, and overclocking will ware it down more. But you can always give it a shot. 

You just have to play with your settings. Maybe people have guides on it. Especially reviews on your cpu will be really good help and they go into major detail; more than anything I could ever give detail on

[noobs guid to marsterrace]

first generation i7 overclock really well you should definitely go for it

[Jumper118]

3 hours ago, matrixmodulator said:

I7 920 Overclock for gaming with GTX 1070. Worth it? What's the simplest way to do this?

I never overclocked a cpu, but i have a corsair h80i so i guess i can do it safely?

Airflow is good too, i have a coolermaster case.

I don't know if there's an influence but my motherboard is a Asus P6T.

I'm running with 16gb ram.

 

So what would be the simplest way to do this and being very safe?

I really really can't get that cpu dead for some reason. If there's more than 5% chance it will fail within a short time let me know and i'll just forget about doing this.

I'm mainly asking because i upgraded from gtx 770 to gtx 1070 and it seems i don't have a lot more FPS in GTAV...

 

Thanks

1366 is not simple to overclock.  You need the raise the base speed to around 200mhz. 20*200 was always a good place to start on 1366 cpus.  Also cpus are literally £5, it's the motherboard you should be worried about.

 

Maybe start with 180*20 at 1.3v and see how that goes,  you will have to watch the memory speed and the qpi speed. 

[Velvet Revolver]

13 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

 Also cpus are literally £5

I have not seen any for that price.

 

13 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

it's the motherboard you should be worried about.

 

Which motherboards?

[Jumper118]

6 minutes ago, Velvet Revolver said:

I have not seen any for that price.

 

Which motherboards?

You don't look very hard.  I he 4c8t Xeons cost nothing. 

 

The 1366 motherboards are expensive so if that dies its much harder and more expensive to replace. 

[Velvet Revolver]

2 minutes ago, Jumper118 said:

You don't look very hard.  I he 4c8t Xeons cost nothing. 

 

The 1366 motherboards are expensive so if that dies its much harder and more expensive to replace. 

yeah some xeons can go for cheap, $5

http://www.ebay.ca/sch/CPUs-Processors/164/i.html?_from=R40&_sop=15&_nkw=1366&rt=nc&LH_BIN=1&_trksid=p2045573.m1684

 

 

$50 or more for an i7-920 but a i7-960 is $100

 

[Velvet Revolver]

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