What can I run with this and how good/bad?

[Romano Lara]

What can I run with this? If someone knows too, can someone give an information about 'heatsink' and overclocking.. I wanted to overclock this to make use of the processor to its full or if not, almost, of its extent to get good performance. But how can I do that? Alright, here's the specs:

 

Intel Core i5 760 2.8GHz 8MB LGA1156 -

4GB DDR2 RAM -

500GB SATA -

Inno3d GT240 1GB DDR5 128bit DVI/HDMI -

Asus P5P43TD/USB 3 Intel P43/A/GBLAN -

Asus DVDRW DRW-24B1LT 24X SATA -

Antec 300 (Cool and Quiet Case) -

Chloride 500VA UPS

Edited December 4, 2010 at 03:47 PM by Guest

[Romano Lara]

Thanks! Question now is, can this thing run FSX?

[Ernesto Alvarez 818262]

if its a new PC, i dont recommend overclocking. you have to run the PC through its paces before that, kinda like warming up a car when its cold outside before driving. if you dont do that, good chance something will fail.

 

also remember overclocking will usually void some warranties.

 

if you arent familiar with how to overclock, dont try it yourself. have someone who is familiar do it. you can very easily pretty much destroy your PC if you dont do it right. (been there )

 

make sure you have extra cooling aswell, very important, heat = bad

[Erhan Atesoglu 1050499]

Ernesto is right... the voltage is the key part that will fry any CPU. The experts know how to do this to get the peak performance. You can overclock without upping the voltage and get fairly safe results. If it's too hot the chip will underclock itself autmatically. IF the voltages are too high/low you end up doing some physical damage or risk instability.

[Abdelrahman M. Elfeky 1044]

What can I run with this? If someone knows too, can someone give an information about 'heatsink' and overclocking.. I wanted to overclock this to make use of the processor to its full or if not, almost, of its extent to get good performance. But how can I do that? Alright, here's the specs:

 

Intel Core i5 760 2.8GHz 8MB LGA1156 -

4GB DDR2 RAM -

500GB SATA -

Inno3d GT240 1GB DDR5 128bit DVI/HDMI -

Asus P5P43TD/USB 3 Intel P43/A/GBLAN -

Asus DVDRW DRW-24B1LT 24X SATA -

Antec 300 (Cool and Quiet Case) -

Chloride 500VA UPS

 

I would say this is an over-kill build for today games. When it comes to over-clocking , your i5 is a wild-hourse and can do anything up to 4Ghz with a quality air-cooler, I would suggest to get either Thermaltake VenomusX or Corsair H70 both of them sells for the same price and they can get you one cool cpu.

 

If you want to go extreme , spend 200$ and buy custom-made water cooling kit with EK or Swiftech waterblock and 360mm raditor and MCP655 or lower grade water pump , you can reach 4.5 or more with no problem!

 

And remember to READ READ and READ when you start over-clocking your system.

 

P.S: you are having DDR3 and not DDR2 as LGA1156 and P55 only support DDR3

[Ivan Kovacevic 920456]

Abdelrahman,

 

Actually, an i5-750 (different from it's 32nm brothers of the i6-6xx series) only clocks to about 4GHz. Anything above that requires uncomfortably high voltages, even on water cooling.

 

And that PC isn't really an overkill for Flight Sim. In fact, there's still room for improvement, by adding more than one HDD to improve FS scenery loading performance.

[Abdelrahman M. Elfeky 1044]

Abdelrahman,

 

Actually, an i5-750 (different from it's 32nm brothers of the i6-6xx series) only clocks to about 4GHz. Anything above that requires uncomfortably high voltages, even on water cooling.

 

And that PC isn't really an overkill for Flight Sim. In fact, there's still room for improvement, by adding more than one HDD to improve FS scenery loading performance.

 

Regarding the i5 overclock , it will mainly depend on the batch and the stepping . Any extreme over-clock would need extreme bump in the voltage , and that's why its not so much recommended but still the OC will help to get more FPS in most games (not sure about the sim).

 

And yes ,I suggest you look for a good HDD .I absolutely recommend getting an SSD, This things are wayyyyy faster than any regular hard drive you would see in your life . I got myself a OCZ Vertex2 LE 60GB and already installing W7 and FS9 and overall performance is really nice. Pricing might be the problem but trust me its absolutely worth it.

 

Regards,,,,

[David Garrison]

if its a new PC, i dont recommend overclocking. you have to run the PC through its paces before that, kinda like warming up a car when its cold outside before driving. if you dont do that, good chance something will fail.

 

also remember overclocking will usually void some warranties.

 

if you arent familiar with how to overclock, dont try it yourself. have someone who is familiar do it. you can very easily pretty much destroy your PC if you dont do it right. (been there )

 

make sure you have extra cooling aswell, very important, heat = bad

 

 

You know that every chip goes through some sort of stress-testing before they go out to the consumers right? I overclocked my i7-920 the day I got it to 4.2ghz and its been humming for a year and half.