Coxy_99 Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 So ive done a huge upgrade maybe spent stupid but my hard earn cash :) Corsair 750watt psu Msi gaming 7 mobo i7-4790 @3.6GHz Evga gtx acx 2.0 980's (SLI) 16GB kingston hyper (not sure on clock speed) Kingston hyper ssd drive Monitor LG IPS LED 3D 21 inch resolution at 1920x1080 As im not confident in overclocking and probs never will, I was looking at upgrading my monitor and if so to what ? Also would getting a faster processor benefit me more my dcs settings are: High High Off High High On High 1920x1080 1.777777778 1 screen 256 16xQ Normal
rcjonessnp175 Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 Overclock your processor. I was once like you many years ago. It only take about 30 mins of reading and research these day to learn how to overclock. Since you have a gaming mobo more than likely it already has built in profiles for your processor. Google your mobo and processor along with word overclock. That would be your biggest benefit with this game. I too have 980 sli. Waste of money currently until 2.0 comes out. I have my 4770k at 4.6 and that makes all the difference in the world. I7 4770k @ 4.6, sli 980 evga oc edition, ssdx2, Sony 55 inch edid hack nvidia 3dvision. Volair sim pit, DK2 Oculus Rift.
trooph Posted March 17, 2015 Posted March 17, 2015 If that 4790 is a K go and OC it :) it should run around 3.9-4.1 at stock Vcore It took me 2-3 days of safe experimenting with overclock settings to get a decent knowledge about this stuff... Just do it safe and use small increments and u'll be fine. U will benefit a lot just by doing that especialy in DCS :)
Coxy_99 Posted March 17, 2015 Author Posted March 17, 2015 Yea mines pretty much set up for dcs 2.0 i can overclock stock is at 3.6MHz, I was more concerned about destroying my pc with a pcu at 750 watts it gets nice and toasty when in sli, I have been told to go for an 850watt for head room, My monitor on the other had only does 1ms so i get the ghosting effect to. Ill feffo look into the overclock thing
BitMaster Posted March 18, 2015 Posted March 18, 2015 wow.... be lucky that it boots !!! As soon as you oc it, CPU or GPU, it will draw more juice, the more you oc the faster the curve goes UP. You should read the PoweTraget of your GPU's and add another 50% to each one if you plan to OC both. My 980 has 300Watt PT acc. to the data sheet, when I oc I plan for 400-450W. My CPU goes from stock 95W TDP to a whopping 115-120Watt when prime95 takes it's toll. Add some wattage for the Motherboard itself, your RAM, Drives and external USB stuff if you have many external bus powered devices, they all add up and my tip the ice berg over. A 850 I guess is still too small if you want to overclock without restraints from the PSU. Aim for 1kW or higher is my advice. Bit Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus XG27ACG QHD 180Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X
Coxy_99 Posted March 18, 2015 Author Posted March 18, 2015 wow.... be lucky that it boots !!! As soon as you oc it, CPU or GPU, it will draw more juice, the more you oc the faster the curve goes UP. You should read the PoweTraget of your GPU's and add another 50% to each one if you plan to OC both. My 980 has 300Watt PT acc. to the data sheet, when I oc I plan for 400-450W. My CPU goes from stock 95W TDP to a whopping 115-120Watt when prime95 takes it's toll. Add some wattage for the Motherboard itself, your RAM, Drives and external USB stuff if you have many external bus powered devices, they all add up and my tip the ice berg over. A 850 I guess is still too small if you want to overclock without restraints from the PSU. Aim for 1kW or higher is my advice. Bit Its why i didnt want to overclock and draw more watts, ive had sli running on bf4 maxed out and fps were very impressive, I was watching the temps tho and i was gaming for awhile, unless the psu will burnout after time, I dont sli in dcs at the moment, And my cpu cooler is pretty big.
BitMaster Posted March 19, 2015 Posted March 19, 2015 Big Cooler is GOOD :) You can OC the CPU alone, that won't tax your PSU as high as 2 GPU would when overlocked to the maximum. 20-30 Watt extra is no big issue but going from 3.6 to 4.5 GHz may bring you some extra fps, I bet they do ! Really, your PSU is way too small for what you run as it is, if you can afford it, protect your devices with a better suited PSU. Sometimes, not always, when a PSU fails it takes some devices along into the digital grave. Bit Gigabyte Aorus X570S Master - Ryzen 5900X - Gskill 64GB 3200/CL14@3600/CL14 - Sapphire Nitro+ 7800XT - 4x Samsung 980Pro 1TB - 1x Samsung 870 Evo 1TB - 1x SanDisc 120GB SSD - Heatkiller IV - MoRa3-360LT@9x120mm Noctua F12 - Corsair AXi-1200 - TiR5-Pro - Warthog Hotas - Saitek Combat Pedals - Asus XG27ACG QHD 180Hz - Corsair K70 RGB Pro - Win11 Pro/Linux - Phanteks Evolv-X
Coxy_99 Posted March 19, 2015 Author Posted March 19, 2015 I have the cooler master 212 evo is is very big, (I did not mention that bit), Im not looking to overclock the cards 2 980's is so much bf4 produced 214 fps avg 160 - 175 lowest was 150 fps, so im not looking there was looking more cpu, Having sli in dcs doesnt do much so i dont bother but cpu is everything, even if i OCed to 4.0GHz or 4.2 at a push.
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