PC specs for Falcon BMS+ MFD Extractor
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If done reasonably OCing is a great way to get extra performance for free. I am also running with an Asus mobo that is more than a few years old and the BIOS has a built in OCing feature which works great. It set up an OC of my i7-2700k CPU to 4.4 GHz and it has run stably in this configuration for years now.
The two most important things to keep in mind when OCing are voltage and heat. Both are CPU killers if not managed within reason. Can you get a large stable OC at much higher voltages than stock? Sure. Will the CPU last any real length of time pushing a major OC? No it won’t. I would stay as close to stock voltage as you can.
I am also just running an air cool setup but I knew I was going to OC so I did my research and bought one of the best air coolers (at the time) that I did my upgrade many years ago. If you just have a stock air cooler that came with the CPU you can get a bit of an OC out of it but not as much as a good quality air cooler or if you wanted to a closed loop liquid cooler setup.
I am not one to mess around with GPU OCing as even getting stable OCs on GPUs doesn’t net much of a performance boost. Not as much as the CPU will gain you.
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yeap GPU oveclocking is more dangerous than CPU. I never overclocked with moded firmwares or soldering or extra voltage… I have seen them live and they can do miracles but fine tuning and going stable is a pain in the ass…
So I always choose vga’s that there is a little room for software settings overclocking. Right now I take the core clock from 7xx to 900 and a notch on the vram all from the manufacturers software… the gain ain’t much but I find it stable and it keeps a low limit when the going gets tough.What I enjoy most is the smoothness by using 3 monitors with SOFTH and not having to go as high as above 60 fps to be smooth, it’s smooth even in 20-25fps. LAst week I had my first EMF flight and I was surprised to see above 35fps. Maybe 60 or 90 or more is more smooth or even maybe and noticeable but I’m ok with what I have and it doesn’t make me say I need something else.
When I went from 1 monitor to 3 I said it… so I overclocked but my cpu coouldn’t get stable at the speed I needed. So I changed the CPU to less cores but higher speed and I gained. Also I upgraded my GPU and for long I enjoy 3 monitors on 5440x1200… which surprised me to tell you the truth that it can cope with it.
I would love and the display extraction but I need 2 more cores and maybe a better GPU… but the total on those nears or exceeds the 1.000 euros… which I don’t have to spare right now. And as MavJP says maybe I will also go for a new VGA first and then change mobo cpu and ram… the thing is my mobo is pci express x2 and new VGA’s are x3 … so the bottleneck will be there… we’ll see… it’s 3-4 weeks afterall… :lol:
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The slickest mod I’ve ever seen for multiple graphics cards (PNY in this case) was to slave then all to use the clock from a “master” single card - this keep all of the frames/rates of multiple projectors in dead-solid synch.
I’m new to the PC world of things, so I have no idea if this is what things like Cross-Fire or SLI do…school me!