Benchmarks / Overclocking / E-peen!

**DancingCorpse** · 02-23-11, 11:16 PM

Too bad 3Dmark doesn't recognize I have the NVidia card in here for the PhysX and doesn't use it as a result, my score would be a bit higher in the physics area.

**St!nkFist** · 03-02-11, 02:04 AM

Overclocked my i5 2500k tonight to 4.1ghz, going to go 5+ tomorrow im content with the scores since my old q6600 only made it around 3200 3dmark11.
http://3dmark.com/3dm11/749100

**HeavyG** · 03-09-11, 07:13 PM

I just upgraded to the Core i7-870. Here are the results:

Result

Not bad for a first pass. I am gonna wait until the arctic silver 5 is broken in and do some real benchmarking.

**Gumby** · 03-19-11, 05:46 AM

grr... I finally had some time to do some of this, but FM has not approved the new Catalyst drivers yet.
So I got this: Result with some modest overclocking. I am going to work on the CPU and GPU and see if I can improve that somewhat. Not bad for a cheap rig.

**HeavyG** · 03-23-11, 02:19 PM

Latest result... I am getting some good overclocking from my GTX 570s.

Result

I broke 10k. Is it time for a good water cooling system?

**Toker** · 03-23-11, 02:27 PM

If you do, check out those koolance quick disconnects..pretty cool...

**HeavyG** · 03-30-11, 09:31 PM

Latest results with new water cooling setup.

Result

Almost at 11k. My CPU is running a bit warm. I am gonna let the Arctic silver break in for a few days then will benchmark again.

**BigHub** · 03-30-11, 09:34 PM

Nice, a smidgen over 4GHz.

I keep my quad-core stock at 3.2GHz, no need to overclock.

**HeavyG** · 03-30-11, 09:46 PM

Originally Posted by BigHub

Nice, a smidgen over 4GHz.

I keep my quad-core stock at 3.2GHz, no need to overclock.

Yea, there isn't MUCH difference from the CPU overclocking. I have found I can rip BluRays much faster with the higher clocks and convert video, but the real difference in gaming is coming from the GPU overclocking.

**HeavyG** · 03-30-11, 10:46 PM

Just broke 11K! I pulled off the Arctic Silver 5 and put on some Arctic MX-2. It doesn't require the 200 hour burn in period for best results like Arctic Silver 5. I was able to bump my CPU overclock an additional 200 MHz and at lower temps.

Result