Squid Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 (edited) It has been long time since i last OCed my i7 880 (and / or played an ED title) and i have totally forgotten how i OCed the thing. If i remmember correctly the 3.73 GHz max turbo freq is achieved with load on a single core? (edit: yes. the scaling factor scheme is '5,4,2,2," -> 3059 (stock clock) + (133 x factor) = Turbo freq. for active cores: "1,2,3,4". Or multiplier increase over the stock multi (23x) as + "5,4,2,2" meaning a 28x multiplier with turbo when one core is active. Note, disabling HT lowers the maximum Turbo multi by one (28x->27x), at least on my system. ) What you estimate would be the minimum OC that would add at least around 10fps increase : Just runing ED titles on a single (3.73 GHz turbo) or two cores (3.60 GHz turbo) would be enough or is necessary to have a full time OC on all cores and in that case what would be the minimum freq necessary to make a worth difference in performance and again would be worth running in only 2 or 1 core ? Thanks :) Edited November 13, 2012 by Squid . i7 880 | HD 7870 | 8 Gb DDR3 1600 | ECS P55H-A | OCZ Vertex 2 180 | Intel 330 180 | WD 500 AAKS | 2x WD 2T Green | Enermax Liberty 620 | CH Combatstick & Throttle | TrackIR 3 | HP ZR24W | Windows 7 x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted November 11, 2012 Author Share Posted November 11, 2012 Any suggestions maybe on how to utilize best this CPU for DCS / FC3 ? Or if maybe theres no worth gain in doing anything more than to run this CPU everything stock (HT enabled, stock intel turbo, all cores enabled, no affinity changes for DCS / FC3, no clocks increase etc) . i7 880 | HD 7870 | 8 Gb DDR3 1600 | ECS P55H-A | OCZ Vertex 2 180 | Intel 330 180 | WD 500 AAKS | 2x WD 2T Green | Enermax Liberty 620 | CH Combatstick & Throttle | TrackIR 3 | HP ZR24W | Windows 7 x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squid Posted November 12, 2012 Author Share Posted November 12, 2012 bummer i just remembered my board wasnt able to resume from sleep (S3) when i had the thing OCed in the past. And i use Sleep a lot although i prerer hibernation much more but i have it disabled because of the SSD :( .... . i7 880 | HD 7870 | 8 Gb DDR3 1600 | ECS P55H-A | OCZ Vertex 2 180 | Intel 330 180 | WD 500 AAKS | 2x WD 2T Green | Enermax Liberty 620 | CH Combatstick & Throttle | TrackIR 3 | HP ZR24W | Windows 7 x64 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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