OC core i7 920

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Gordon.C

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Hi

I have just got core i7 920 and am not pretty sure what to do. If I OC will there be any obvious changes in todays games? (far cry, crysis, gta 4).

I am just wondering if those vids on youtube are made after OC because when I run fraps the frame rate gets below 20.
 
Well the frames/sec is mainly limited by your graphics card.

So what card do you have, and what resolution are you running your games at?

Edit: Oh wait, do you mean poor performance while capturing video using fraps?
 
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I am using Radeon HD4870x2 so I dont see a problem there.

Yes the games runs poorly with Fraps turned on without it the games run quite well however on 1680x1050 and max setting there are some rare lugs.

So how do they do it when running fraps with high requirement games?
 
I have set 20fps in fraps but the game runs usually at lower rates while recording.

Recording is not so important, the point is if I OC core i7 920 will there be any significant change in game play?
 
Yes there will be because right now your CPU is bottlenecking your video card. You will not see the video cards full potential until your CPU is around 3.2 to 3.4ghz. Fraps is a terrible program to record live game play with. I don't have a program to suggest to you but maybe if possible the game you play has a demo record feature built in you could use that, then just play back the demo and record that with fraps.
 
HyperCam is better than Fraps but not as good as it should be.

I really don't think the CPU is bottlenecking the GPU deserves the blame, it's just the nature of the Fraps software. You might notice 1-2FPS more when you overclock .2-.4Ghz, yeah that's a huge difference(sarcasm).
 
I am really confused now. Those games dont run absolutely smoothly on highest resolution and graphics either as when I am using recording app? So what is really the bottleneck here?

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Core i7 920 2.66 Ghz
Radeon HD4870X2
3 gigs of ram

How do I get the most potential from this hardware?
 
Get that CPU to 3.2ghz or so and problem should be solved. While the I7 is faster clock for clock depending on your resolution you need more juice.

If your running a 4870x2 I would say your playing around with 1920 x 1080 or in the ball park?
 
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