How stable is the game with overclocks?

[Sneakysnide]

Asking because I've been trying to squeeze out last bits of performance from my old machine (built for music production) and the game has completely frozen on me a couple of times.

This might happen after an hour, five or more. Temps seem okay, hovering around 50-60 while in game. I've clocked my CPU to 4,2GHz on 1,3 volts and I'm wondering whether I've had the worst luck in silicon lottery or the game just doesn't like overclocking in general. All other settings in BIOS concerning overclocking have been left to auto so far.

Machine:
MSI X99A SLI Plus
i7-6850k
96GB Corsair Vengeance LPX 2133Hz (6x16)
Radeon 7800XT 16GB

[Northwold]

Don't know about now but certainly before the 2.0 patches it had a reputation for being very *intolerant* of overclocking, with one of the first bits of advice doled out to anyone experiencing crashes being to remove the overclock. I don't overclock so can't give first hand experience, but the issue came up pretty frequently on forums.

[Schrute_Farms_B&B]

This has literally nothing to do with a game being OC-friendly or whatever. Such thing doesn't exist.

edit:
Your setup runs either stable or not.
In your case, it doesnt.
Plain and simple. :)

[₢ Cryptic Chipp]

I'm running an i9 9900kf oc'd to 4.5ghz all cores and the only time I crash, is if I'm on hour 6-8 of straight playing. Since my CPU is straight pegged to 99% usage for those literal 6-8 hours.

[r.linder]

There's really no such thing as a game being "OC friendly" or not, if it's crashing it's because your OC isn't properly stable when slammed with an AVX load, Cyberpunk 2077 is very demanding because there's so much happening on-screen and around you that it takes a lot of CPU power to keep up with

I run an overclocked i9-10850K and it doesn't crash

[Sneakysnide]

Cheers all, guess I need to do some more fiddling in the BIOS!

[₢ Cryptic Chipp]

Originally posted by Sneakysnide:

Cheers all, guess I need to do some more fiddling in the BIOS!

I don't think that's going to help you too much. Your CPU is very old and underpowered. You're actually bottlenecking it with your 6800xt.

You need to upgrade your CPU. No amount of tweaking is going to help you unfortunately.

[Amanoob105]

I keep seeing this post and keep having to remind myself they mean "overclocking their computer" and not the in game ability .

[r.linder]

Originally posted by ₢ Cryptic Chipp:

Originally posted by Sneakysnide:

Cheers all, guess I need to do some more fiddling in the BIOS!

I don't think that's going to help you too much. Your CPU is very old and underpowered. You're actually bottlenecking it with your 6800xt.

You need to upgrade your CPU. No amount of tweaking is going to help you unfortunately.

**Your CPU is actually bottlenecking your 7800-XT**

Wording was incorrect, the way you worded it states that "your GPU is bottlenecking your CPU."

Originally posted by Sneakysnide:

Cheers all, guess I need to do some more fiddling in the BIOS!

You need to leave Skylake behind, there's nothing you're going to be able to do to get very good performance in Cyberpunk with such an old chip. The game is very CPU intensive so you need something much more recent to be a good match-up with your GPU, ideally a 7800X3D or 9800X3D.

[₢ Cryptic Chipp]

Originally posted by r.linder:

Originally posted by ₢ Cryptic Chipp:

I don't think that's going to help you too much. Your CPU is very old and underpowered. You're actually bottlenecking it with your 6800xt.

You need to upgrade your CPU. No amount of tweaking is going to help you unfortunately.

**Your CPU is actually bottlenecking your 7800-XT**

Wording was incorrect, the way you worded it states that "your GPU is bottlenecking your CPU."

Originally posted by Sneakysnide:

Cheers all, guess I need to do some more fiddling in the BIOS!

You need to leave Skylake behind, there's nothing you're going to be able to do to get very good performance in Cyberpunk with such an old chip. The game is very CPU intensive so you need something much more recent to be a good match-up with your GPU, ideally a 7800X3D or 9800X3D.

Wut?

I had the GPU wrong but that was it, I said the card was bottlenecking the CPU, not the other way around.

And that's correct, the CPU cannot handle that card, the GPU itself isn't bottlenecked. It can do its job, but if the CPU cannot keep up, than that is considered the bottleneck.

[r.linder]

Originally posted by ₢ Cryptic Chipp:

Originally posted by r.linder:

**Your CPU is actually bottlenecking your 7800-XT**

Wording was incorrect, the way you worded it states that "your GPU is bottlenecking your CPU."


You need to leave Skylake behind, there's nothing you're going to be able to do to get very good performance in Cyberpunk with such an old chip. The game is very CPU intensive so you need something much more recent to be a good match-up with your GPU, ideally a 7800X3D or 9800X3D.

Wut?

I had the GPU wrong but that was it, I said the card was bottlenecking the CPU, not the other way around.

And that's correct, the CPU cannot handle that card, the GPU itself isn't bottlenecked. It can do its job, but if the CPU cannot keep up, than that is considered the bottleneck.

That's not what a CPU bottleneck is... when the CPU is the bottleneck, it's holding back what the GPU can handle. When is very old and underpowered. You're actually bottlenecking it with your 6800-XTthe GPU is the bottleneck, it's just unable to keep up with what the CPU can process and runs as fast as it can muster.

CPU too weak = CPU limits GPU performance
GPU too weak = GPU limits CPU performance

The way you worded it is reversed to what it's actually supposed to be, you described a GPU bottleneck, because the wording said that the 7800-XT was limiting the CPU.
"Your CPU is very old and underpowered. You're actually bottlenecking it with your 6800-XT."

When it should have been: "Your CPU is very old and underpowered, it's bottlenecking your 7800-XT." The way things are worded is important because when it's wrong, you're just confusing people, and people that don't know any better will just parrot what they were told and confuse even more people.