Decide whether to push performance beyond limits or stick to stability.
Decide whether to push performance beyond limits or stick to stability.
You're thinking about balancing performance and stability with your Xeon X3470. It's worth considering whether keeping it stock or applying a turbo boost would be better for your needs. Turbo mode can sometimes improve responsiveness but might also cause more stutter if not managed well. Since you've already achieved solid speeds, it might depend on how much you want to push it versus maintaining reliability. Your experience with overclocking gives you a good foundation to weigh these options carefully.
Enhancing a chip beyond its default performance brings it to speeds it wouldn’t naturally reach. There’s no quick fix that improves the stock turbo without sacrificing stability. If you achieve a completely stable overclock that significantly exceeds the base speed, you’ve got a much more powerful chip.
This forum seems really helpful, you answered quickly and I'm glad I can assist. I'll definitely give it another try by overclocking again.
The system won’t run Red Dear Redemption 2 even after boosting. The lowest spec needed is an i5 2500K—about 3.7GHz with four cores on a 32nm chip. Your processor runs at 3.6GHz, four cores, but 45nm—falling short of the game’s high demands. A significant performance gap from what’s expected.
This keeps me motivated to try Pirate Bay and give it a go, man!
You'll defo get much better perf with a manual OC. Though stock turbo is 3.6GHz (I don't know if that's one or all cores though), you can probably push it a good bit higher. Most of this older stuff clocks well AFAIK. Though I've mostly ran HEDT stuff. On my HEDT stuff I usually can push far, far beyond stock boost. My X5670 (32nm 6c/12t on Westmere-EP) I got to 4.54Ghz, almost 4.74 but I didn't get that 100% stable before I moved to X99. The stock boost on that CPU is 2.93Ghz IIRC, so that's over 1.5GHz on top of the stock boost. Boost on my 5820K is 3.6GHz IIRC, I run that at 4.6Ghz daily, so a full 1Ghz boost over stock. Here's your CPU: https://ark.intel.com/content/www/us/en/...3-ghz.html @Fasauceome It's LGA1156, IDK the chipsets for that but X58/5520 is built off the LGA1366 socket. This is still a 45nm chip though, I assume it'd perform similarly to the 45nm i7s on X58. I just don't know how to OC on the LGA1156 platform or if it changed at all from X58. Can still try it, and you can probably push these CPUs to around 4Ghz if they're anything like the HEDT versions, maybe 4.2. You do you, but I wouldn't advise pirating. If you like a game then buy it to at least support the devs building it (even if you don't like the company, they're still the ones employing developers). If you don't like it enough to pay for it then you don't need it.
I understand if I can help fund the devs, but my current setup uses a budget air cooler. My CPU runs stable at 3.6GHz, but during stress tests it hits around 80°C max. Going higher could damage it, so I might revert to an i5-750 again. Maybe one of you has a cooler that lets me reach 4GHz? What’s the safe temperature range for this chip?