Old(ish) system overclocking advice

[ant666_2]

Hi I have a rather old system that I'm trying to get a bit of life out of before it gets set aside for spares.

Specs:

fm2a58m hd+

A8-6600k 

Stock cooler

8gb ddr3 

Pny gtx960 4gb (blower style cooler)

750w psu

Windows 10

 

I'm looking to play gta v. It plays now with most settings turned down and at 720p.. But still barely hiting 30fps.

Watching task manager the cpu maxed out at 4.06ghz and was wondering if I overclock to even around 4.25  and leave voltages alone. would I see a difference 

 

I have absolutely no experience in overclocking so all advice would be appreciated 

 

Thank you 

[Skiiwee29]

Not enough to improve gameplay above what you have already. You may see a 2-5 fps increase at most if you are lucky. You would be better off upgrading your rig to something newer or on the intel side of things for gaming. 

[19_blackie_73]

you won't see much as you are probably hitting very fast the temperature limit because you are on the stock amd cooler...

check temps first before attempting anything

[ant666_2]

2 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

Not enough to improve gameplay above what you have already. You may see a 2-5 fps increase at most if you are lucky. You would be better off upgrading your rig to something newer or on the intel side of things for gaming. 

thats the problem money is very tight, hence why im trying to overclock, but i guess its just a really bad/old cpu

[ant666_2]

2 minutes ago, 19_blackie_73 said:

you won't see much as you are probably hitting very fast the temperature limit because you are on the stock amd cooler...

check temps first before attempting anything

if i where to invest in a 212 evo would that help things? i could use all the proformance i could get as i cant afford an upgrade yet

[Skiiwee29]

10 minutes ago, ant666_2 said:

if i where to invest in a 212 evo would that help things? i could use all the proformance i could get as i cant afford an upgrade yet

no, not really. The chip is very bad for gaming.... You are still only going to gain the very few FPS on this chip as I have mentioned above regardless. 

[19_blackie_73]

15 minutes ago, ant666_2 said:

if i where to invest in a 212 evo would that help things? i could use all the proformance i could get as i cant afford an upgrade yet

well as @legacy99 already stated, overclocking does not magically double your fps with .2 Ghz more. Even if you would put an AIO or very good air cooler on that chip and would be able to squeeze another 1 GHz out of hit (which I highly doubt is even possible), you would see at best max 10fps improvement if you are very lucky.

Bottom line: bad chip -> ocing makes it only a little bit better, not very noticeable

[ant666_2]

ok with that in mind would getting a better fm2+ chip be a better,getting an am3+board and cpu or would you suggest just saving for a better pc.