Can I make my 3770K run faster?
Can I make my 3770K run faster?
Hello there, I've had this cpu for almost 5 years now and i just upgraded to windows 10 a week ago, and i noticed that my cpu usage is almost at 90-100% half the time im playing, where i miss browsing firefox while waiting for my game to start, as of now its a bit slow. i want to know if its worth it to overclock my cpu on this particular motherboard thanks in advance CPU:i7 3770k motherboard : h61m-s2p gpu : 1660 ti ram : 16gb
You need a Z77 board to overclock that CPU. Sometimes you are just lucky and can push the turbo speed up by 400MHz, but that is all you will get with an H series chip. I have tried to find every motherboard driver from the maker's site and their last BIOS file. Windows Creators edition (the latest of Win10) broke a lot of old drivers, especially for sound and network, which made everything lag a lot more.
You need a Z77 board to overclock that processor. Sometimes you can squeeze in a 400MHz boost for turbo speeds, but that's all the H series chipset allows. I'd check every driver file and go back to the old Windows Creators Edition (latest Win10) just because it broke so many legacy things like audio and LAN, causing really bad slowdowns.
Do you think the computer chip drivers on my boardcause make my PC run slowly when I switch to Windows 10, and what other steps can I take?
Here is the list of drivers and bios. See if that helps. The i7-3770K is still a good CPU, I have it for almost seven years now, it works fine. But you need some knowledge to fix things up properly. I use a tool called WinAero. It makes Windows settings easy on me. There are many performance tweaks and switches to turn off stuff like the Windows Store that I don't use. Also run through your settings with high performance power plan and turn off Xbox DVR or Game Helper (those are junk and useless). I upgraded my computer last year, but now I am slow too lol. It was a big shock. There were so many things I took for granted because XP and 7 were easy to navigate, like the control panel being simple to understand. The new "Settings" is designed for teenage girls raised on iPhones. It's totally confusing. But start with the motherboard drivers first, cuz right now you are using Windows generic substitutes, like trying to use Windows to drive a gpu. That doesn't work out well at all. You want to use the ones tailored for your specific mobo. And you'll need the last bios to accommodate those changes on a 64bit platform, the original bios was better suited to 16/32bit systems.
my motherboard is old; the last update was in 2013, and there are only four drivers for Win10 left: audio, LAN, and some Intel stuff nobody uses. getting slower when you upgrade feels sad because I have a good build already. I'll try other things and hope it works, but if you know more tricks to help me, please tell me. God knows I need that help too. Also, the iPhone thing is annoying so I installed ClassicShell right after installing Win10. It looks like Windows 7 but it's a program called ClassicShell. Give it a try! Thanks
Yes. My mobo is also old. An MSI Z77 Power card had its last BIOS update on October 2013. But Windows 7 and Windows 10 often run the same drivers, so you should probably use the Win7 x64 (64-bit) drivers for any hardware that doesn't support Windows 10.
Could you tell me if I can make my RAM run faster or swap out the two big sticks to get a speedier setting after updating the BIOS? My motherboard supports 3000+ MHz already. For seven years straight, I've been using this setup (I used presets from the factory without changing voltages myself).
My CPU is an i7-3770k running at about 4.2 GHz on a stock cooler that can handle up to 4.5 GHz if needed.
The RAM sticks are Corsair Vengeance with two modules totaling 16 GB, all set for 8GB x 16GB (10-10-10-27) at the factory speed of 1600 MHz. I can push them to about 1866 MHz if I let my motherboard do it, but I've never tried going higher than that before this exact setup.
My motherboards is an Asus Z77 Extreme 5 with a BIOS version P2.90A from April 2018.
I also have an H100i CPU cooler which might help with overclocking numbers showing up to 3000+ MHz in UEFI mode.
So, I'm pretty sure my current RAM can't handle anything faster than that. Here are two questions for you:
Will my processor support a speed like 3000 MHz?
What options do I have when buying DDR3 RAM back in 2020 if I want to run at those speeds?
Please help me out with suggestions thanks.