[QUOTE=WingedAssailant;34143734]My 1055T cant even pull 30 FPS on GTA iv, no matter what settings its on. Yes GTA iv may be poorley made, but it is one of my favorable games to play, i keep getting kicked all the time due to "your comptuer is running too slowly"[/QUOTE]
My unlocked Phenom II X2 550 (now a quad) can handle GTA IV perfectly fine. I highly doubt your CPU is holding the rest of your hardware back. Also, GTA IV is a horrible thing to base performance off of.
[QUOTE=Trumple;34199385]Even with proper cooling, it will reduce the life.
Think about it: if you ramp up the clock speed, the voltages in the processor are changing that many mHz more frequently. That means it will go through more clock cycles for the same amount of time. Each logic device in the processor can go through a number of clocks, so it will fail sooner than it would have at a lower frequency.
Nowadays, it's not a problem because by the time it would have failed you would have upgraded already.[/QUOTE]
Increasing the clock rate will wear out transistors more quickly and cause them to fail. Increasing voltage will speed up the process of electropheresis that eats away at the traces on the substrate in the CPU, eventually causing a microscopic short and destroy the CPU. There are always imperfections in CPU dies, so overclocking could expose a fault much earlier than it would normally have happened.
The only reason I suggested over clocking is because I have a very similar system to the op, and at 3.5ghz GTA4 has been running well. Not to mention despite it being a six core CPU, its architecture is very old compared to the current Intel line up and raising the clock will help lower that gap.
Zerokateo I can understand your reasoning if the op was using a i5 2500 at stock clocks, but not a considerably worse 1055t.
[QUOTE=bohb;34200556]Increasing the clock rate will wear out transistors more quickly and cause them to fail. Increasing voltage will speed up the process of electropheresis that eats away at the traces on the substrate in the CPU, eventually causing a microscopic short and destroy the CPU. There are always imperfections in CPU dies, so overclocking could expose a fault much earlier than it would normally have happened.[/QUOTE]
I want a source for this as it doesn't sound quite right. I don't see how a higher clock rate will wear the transistors faster if the heat is in check, and the second one sounds interesting to learn about if it's true. Either way at the end of the day even pushing your CPU to its limits won't affect its lifespan significantly enough to be a deterrent. Most people move on to a new CPU in 3 or 4 years anyway. The overclock might take off a few years of the 20 year realistic working lifespan, but nobody will ever use it for that long.
[QUOTE=james0724;34200596]The only reason I suggested over clocking is because I have a very similar system to the op, and at 3.5ghz GTA4 has been running well. Not to mention despite it being a six core CPU, its architecture is very old compared to the current Intel line up and raising the clock will help lower that gap.
Zerokateo I can understand your reasoning if the op was using a i5 2500 at stock clocks, but not a considerably worse 1055t.[/QUOTE]
i did overclock my 1055T, GTA iv still ran like absolute crap, and i cant record with fraps smoothly in any game
[QUOTE=WingedAssailant;34203458]i did overclock my 1055T, GTA iv still ran like absolute crap, and i cant record with fraps smoothly in any game[/QUOTE]
Fraps lagging is normally because you're writing a lot of shit to the same HDD as the one you're running the game on. Put another HDD in your computer, and make Fraps save video there.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;34205749]Fraps lagging is normally because you're writing a lot of shit to the same HDD as the one you're running the game on. Put another HDD in your computer, and make Fraps save video there.[/QUOTE]
ive tried each hard drive (i have 4 HDDs and an SSD) even on the SSD there was no performance increase
[QUOTE=ice445;34201130]I want a source for this as it doesn't sound quite right. I don't see how a higher clock rate will wear the transistors faster if the heat is in check, and the second one sounds interesting to learn about if it's true. Either way at the end of the day even pushing your CPU to its limits won't affect its lifespan significantly enough to be a deterrent. Most people move on to a new CPU in 3 or 4 years anyway. The overclock might take off a few years of the 20 year realistic working lifespan, but nobody will ever use it for that long.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=Trumple;34199385]Even with proper cooling, it will reduce the life.
Think about it: if you ramp up the clock speed, the voltages in the processor are changing that many mHz more frequently. That means it will go through more clock cycles for the same amount of time. Each logic device in the processor can go through a number of clocks, so it will fail sooner than it would have at a lower frequency.
Nowadays, it's not a problem because by the time it would have failed you would have upgraded already.[/QUOTE]
I know it's not a source but hopefully that explains it.
[QUOTE=GoDong-DK;34205749]Fraps lagging is normally because you're writing a lot of shit to the same HDD as the one you're running the game on. Put another HDD in your computer, and make Fraps save video there.[/QUOTE]
Actually, I've run off a RAMDisk and noticed no difference in performance. I'm using a Phenom II X3 720 BE overclocked to 3.4 GHz (from 2.8). I'd imagine the lack of performance when using Fraps is due to my low processing headroom (when running a game at the same time at 1920 x 1080).
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