Having my first try at overclocking and I have a couple of questions; Some Info: Raven RV03 Phenom II X6 1090T Gigabyte GA-MA790XT-UD4P Thermolab Trinity + Artic Silver 5 What sort of OC is a good level for this chip? Do my current OC settings seem okay, and should I be using other tools to test a stable OC other than prime95? (anything prime95 wont find) Given what we have heard so far do you think an I5 equivelent IB+Mobo set up would give a worthwhile performance gain for gaming? (My mobo is sata 2, not sure if thats slowing down my SSD's) Thanks in advance My OC attempt;
You've actually got it to 3.8ghz at pretty good voltages. My 1055T takes 1.45V to get it to 4ghz. Anyway, unless you do quite intensive work, there is no need to upgrade at the moment- my Phenom setup is fine.
I'll be watching this topic, I used the auto oc feature on my asus board. But then knackered my board. I've not tried again as I only had the machine back a week now. I found when I'd clocked it, it was much snappier, but it isn't exactly a slouch without the oc. I would like to learn to do it manually but we're getting married next week so I'm going to leave it for a while yet
Not worth upgrading for games, probably still won't be worth upgrading until the next gen console arrive. I was happy with a 4GHz, 1.41V overclock back when I had a 1055T. If your SSD's are fairly modern(ie STA3 based) then they are being limited by the SATA2 interface, however it's unlikely this makes a huge difference in loading times.
I've owned SATA 2 and SATA 3 drives and TBH I can't notice a big difference between them so I wouldn't worry. Your overclock is fine, you might be able to push for 4GHz but I doubt you'd really notice the difference if you did.
That's a good overclock, low voltage, low temps. I'd leave it at that if it's perfectly stable. However, the temperature sensors on AMD chips are known to throw wild results. Better use HWMonitor and check the motherboard's temperature sensor that's under the socket. Sometimes an overclock may be stable under Prime95 but not in games. Run a batch of demanding games for a few days and if there are no problems, then you'll know you've found your sweet spot. And "Prime95 stable" means several hours of it. I use 8+ hours but some go for 24+ hours. In my opinion it's not worth the money to upgrade to a 2500k, not when Ivy Bridge is so close to being released. Yes, Sandy Bridge is faster than Thuban but the money you'd pay to upgrade from a perfectly working (and pretty fast, I'd say) rig you'd better keep in your pocket and upgrade to Haswell or get a better graphics card or monitor.
