4770k turbo boost.

[MasterGiles]

I have a 4770k and a Corsair H60 (2013 edition) The idle temps vary between 32-36oc (At most 39oc) The load temps vary between 60-70oc. Do you think its worth putting on the turbo boost mode to achieve 3.9 ghz?

My aim is to get maximal performance out of games. Also to add, Do you think it would be beneficial to games that use CPU a fair bit? Or will the change only be like a 1 fps increase?

Specifications:
7970 direct CUII ghz edition in crossfire
4770k @ 3.5Ghz
16gb RAM 1333mhz
MSI GD65 gaming motherboard

[76561198001357399]

Those temperatures are nothing to worry about at all. 3.5-3.9 will yield >4 fps in most games. If you did plan on overclocking more you can get some more substantial results.

[rotNdude]

Turbo boost is on by default unless you somehow took the time to disable it.

[FluffyPinkDecoyBunny]

Usually fair rule of thumb is if you OC your CPU, expect to see upwards of a similar performance boost in games and application (though the results will vary). Take my old Phenom II x4 940, when I pushed it to 3.7GHz (up from 3) that's roughly a 23% overclock. Some applications and games would sometimes prove to show around a 20% performance increase while other games/applications showed less or the very few, no improvement at all.

Figuring out if it's worth it - well, it's a time grueling task of running benchmarks, recording results, working on OCing and keeping a stable OC and then going through and re-running all the previous benchmarks. Obviously you don't have to go through all this and you can just take my word on it, but that's usually what I end up doing, just to see if the gains are worth the effort or not.

As for the 4770k, the max temp I found listed for it is 67C - if that helps you out at all.

[ZeekAncient]

FluffyPinkDecoyBunny님이 먼저 게시:

As for the 4770k, the max temp I found listed for it is 67C - if that helps you out at all.

The max temp for a 4770k is 100c, not 67C. 67C is actually a really good temp for a 4770k(at load I mean). And ofcourse Im talking about Core temp, not case temp.

[Azza ☠]

No point, your pc is bottlenecking elsewhere.

16gb RAM 1333mhz will tend to bottleneck and lag a bit with gaming. Optimal level is actually at 8GB DDR3 1600MHz CL9 or CL7 (faster but more expensive) timing. Note faster RAM such as 2400MHz won't show more than 1% performance gain towards gaming purposes, so could be a waste of cash depending on how you use the system, specially if the timing goes up to CL11. Making sure the timing is CL9 or lower is much better to look for. 8GB is enough for gaming, more would only be really used with raw image processing, multitasking and graphical applications.

I would highly recommend next to install a small 64-120GB SSD (Solid State Drive) to be used as caching (Intel Rapid Storage Technology > Intel Smart Response Acceleration > Maximized) over your main HDD. Your motherboard should be able to support this, but double check the manual. This will put the most commonly used files into solid state which is as fast as memory. Startup and shutdown time should be < 5 seconds and application/game launch almost instant. Use a small area remaining to lock down the Windows page file into, so it doesn't adjust size (match size depending on real RAM size) and boosts performance. You will find overall system performance greatly improved.

Ignore using Intel Rapid Start unless you put your PC into sleepmode a lot - rather than turning it on and off.

Your graphics card shouldn't have much of an issue keeping up to speed. Temperature is a little on the high side, but to be expected with crossfire setups and not an issue as they can survive double that. Ignore using Lucid Virtu MVP on your graphics, it will most likely cause more problems than good and not needed with high spec cards.

[MasterGiles]

You think my RAM is bottlenecking my performance slightly?

[_I_]

for gaming, ram will not bottleneck anything
unless its an amd apu build using the apu

[the champion of family values]

your ram is not bottle necking anything, you could OC the ram but I think it's a waste of time. Ram speed is the most over rate PC spec in the book you will never see any real world gain from it. Your cpu has tons of OC in it, 4.2 ghz should be easy with a good air cooler or aio water kit. Those two gpu's should be ripping 1080p res games to bits with all settings maxed out. A ssd in the 240 gb range is only $150 so why would you mess with setting up a caching drive. I don't see much that needs fixing a ssd would be your best upgrade and OC that CPU & GPU if you think the games are not looking just perfect.