Hardware for Gaming

[w8kdrifter]

I wouldn't call myself a gamer, so to speak, but recently I have really been getting into COD WWII. I have a GTX GEFORCE 1060, 6GB Extreme OC from Galax and an i7 6700k (running at stock settings) on air cooling. Will overclocking my cpu provide an advantage in games such as COD WWII? Seems like the bottleneck is usually the connection to the servers...but again, I am new to this world and would appreciate any input from more experienced folks. 

[Firewrath9]

No but if your worried about server latency, get a 1 gigabit ethernet connection.

[TrigrH]

25 minutes ago, w8kdrifter said:

I wouldn't call myself a gamer, so to speak, but recently I have really been getting into COD WWII. I have a GTX GEFORCE 1060, 6GB Extreme OC from Galax and an i7 6700k (running at stock settings) on air cooling. Will overclocking my cpu provide an advantage in games such as COD WWII? Seems like the bottleneck is usually the connection to the servers...but again, I am new to this world and would appreciate any input from more experienced folks. 

a light CPU OC can always help, I can give you some settings to try but I need to know the cooling solution and motherboard first. 

[Firewrath9]

Honostly for cod, it doesnt matter.

[w8kdrifter]

21 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

a light CPU OC can always help, I can give you some settings to try but I need to know the cooling solution and motherboard first. 

That would be great. I am running an enermax ETS T40F. I had bumped up to 4.6 @ 1.300v before running around 76c max. Ran several bench tests, thought it was stable but ended up crashing several times exporting a 9 min video using premier pro so I reset to factory settings. Would love some input on overclock settings if you have some. 

 

MOBO is the asus z170 Deluxe. 

[TrigrH]

3 minutes ago, w8kdrifter said:

That would be great. I am running an enermax ETS T40F. I had bumped up to 4.6 @ 1.300v before running around 76c max. Ran several bench tests, thought it was stable but ended up crashing several times exporting a 9 min video using premier pro so I reset to factory settings. Would love some input on overclock settings if you have some. 

 

MOBO is the asus z170 Deluxe. 

try 1.35v at 4.6ghz also increase the load line calibration if you haven't already.

[w8kdrifter]

54 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

 increase the load line calibration if you haven't already.

Can you please expand upon this? Haven't heard of that before. 

[TrigrH]

12 minutes ago, w8kdrifter said:

Can you please expand upon this? Haven't heard of that before. 

Load line calibration adds voltage when the cpu is under load to circumvent voltage droop (which happens under load).

 

[w8kdrifter]

2 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

Load line calibration adds voltage when the cpu is under load to circumvent voltage droop (which happens under load).

 

Much appreciated. Thank you for the detailed response! 

[LogicalDrm]

2 hours ago, Firewrath9 said:

No but if your worried about server latency, get a 1 gigabit ethernet connection.

 

It matters more where server is located and can its connection handle load. You don't need more than 50mbps connection for gaming.

 

2 hours ago, TrigrH said:

a light CPU OC can always help, I can give you some settings to try but I need to know the cooling solution and motherboard first. 

With CoD? The most GPU intensive game there is? Nah, that i7 will do fine as is.

[w8kdrifter]

On 7/5/2018 at 10:36 PM, TrigrH said:

try 1.35v at 4.6ghz also increase the load line calibration if you haven't already.

This worked great! So far I have tested via realbench 2.56 on 15 & 30 min and hour tests. Max temp was 84/85 degrees C, depending on temp tool used. What other tools should I test with? 

[TrigrH]

17 hours ago, w8kdrifter said:

This worked great! So far I have tested via realbench 2.56 on 15 & 30 min and hour tests. Max temp was 84/85 degrees C, depending on temp tool used. What other tools should I test with? 

i recommend non synthetic workloads like games, lower the graphics settings a bit and uncap the framerate, what did you set the loadline to?

[w8kdrifter]

5 hours ago, TrigrH said:

i recommend non synthetic workloads like games, lower the graphics settings a bit and uncap the framerate, what did you set the loadline to?

I have not messed with the load line yet. 

[TrigrH]

5 minutes ago, w8kdrifter said:

I have not messed with the load line yet. 

you should turn it up a bit, it would let you go back down in voltage.

[w8kdrifter]

4 minutes ago, TrigrH said:

you should turn it up a bit, it would let you go back down in voltage.

I had never heard of load line calibration prior to you mentioning it. Little scared to mess with something not well known (to me). Any rule of thumb settings to start with? 

[TrigrH]

2 minutes ago, w8kdrifter said:

I had never heard of load line calibration prior to you mentioning it. Little scared to mess with something not well known (to me). Any rule of thumb settings to start with? 

loadline adds voltage when the CPU is under load, every motherboard has different settings.

 

Let me know what your options are.

 

Here is an example:

Quote

CPU voltage on bios 1.310V

Load -line Calibration Level 6
( Level 1 = greater Vdroop )
( Level 8 = minimum Vdroop )

CPU-z reads - Core Voltage 1.312V idle and 1.328V full load with some boost up to 1.344V