Pretty pleased with myself

[horrorshow]

Around the time Fallout 4 came out, I said "screw it, finally time to try overclocking."

(my initial investment in a CM Hyper 212+ proved to be a wise one)

Anyways, point being, as you can see from my sig, my rig is old as dirt and pretty low-end.

But with a little research and patience, I've somehow managed to keep it pretty damn relevant.

End results: 3.6 Ghz (180x20 @ 1.2v, 65c load) & a reasonably oc'ed GTX 960 4GB equate to one helluva a rig for being 8 years old....

As a 34 year old long-time PC gamer, the age of this system vs its current capabilities, completely blows my mind.

(I'm just assuming I hit the lottery with 3.6 at 1.2v using such a mid-range motherboard, thats basically why I made the thread etc)

 

[CAD4466HK]

Around the time Fallout 4 came out, I said "screw it, finally time to try overclocking."

(my initial investment in a CM Hyper 212+ proved to be a wise one)

Anyways, point being, as you can see from my sig, my rig is old as dirt and pretty low-end.

But with a little research and patience, I've somehow managed to keep it pretty damn relevant.

End results: 3.6 Ghz (180x20 @ 1.2v, 65c load) & a reasonably oc'ed GTX 960 4GB equate to one helluva a rig for being 8 years old....

As a 34 year old long-time PC gamer, the age of this system vs its current capabilities, completely blows my mind.

(I'm just assuming I hit the lottery with 3.6 at 1.2v using such a mid-range motherboard, thats basically why I made the thread etc)

Yeah those Lynnfield's are still feisty after all these years, hows your performance with that 960 in FO4? Any random crashes at those clocks in your sig?
I'm running a 960 @ +120 core and +200 mem and +25 vol, sometimes I have random crashes at random times, was wondering if it was the game or my clocks.

 

[horrorshow]

I've never crashed in anything.

I run my gpu fan at 60% constantly, it never hits over 72c....

FO4 runs like butter as long as shadow distance is at medium and god rays are at low etc.

 

[CAD4466HK]

I've never crashed in anything.

I run my gpu fan at 60% constantly, it never hits over 72c....

FO4 runs like butter as long as shadow distance is at medium and god rays are at low etc.

I got my shadows maxed and godrays at med. Fan speed is at default and I Max out around 74c. I get great frames except in diamond city and corvega.

 

[Raendor]

I've never crashed in anything.

I run my gpu fan at 60% constantly, it never hits over 72c....

FO4 runs like butter as long as shadow distance is at medium and god rays are at low etc.

Turn godrays off completely (anything other than ultra us not worth it, so it's better ultra or off) and you can run highest shadows.

 

[Gulvan]

GJ! I am in the same boat with my 3570k still rocking hardcore. Just cant stream anything well enough.

 

[horrorshow]

Just to clarify, shadow quality in FO4 is set to its highest setting but shadow distance is set to medium.

It's common knowledge that high shadow distance causes randoms fps drops even on high-end configs etc.

Low godrays vs off doesn't really yield much, if any, of a performance difference, so I figured I'd just keep them on low.

*shrugs

 

[Araxie]

random drops on FPS on fallout 4 at or around Diamond city, financial district, good neighbor are more related to CPU single thread performance than any other thing, im CPU bottlenecked at 1080P even with my 6700K at 4.8ghz. for all of those with weaker CPUs I always recommend to use insignificant object remover mod it's an amazing mod, it helped extremely nice my brothers machine which sport an i7 2600@4ghz with a GTX 980, huge performance boost in those areas, for those who can't turn on Godrays Ultra without the stupid performance hit you can use Ultra Quality God Rays Performance Fix Mod another great mod worth to try on mid to low end machines, again tested on the same i7 2600 + 980 and worked flawlessly. even tested on a 3770K@ 4.5 + R9 390X (which suffers more with godrays) and results were stellar, just don't forget to turn up god rays up to ultra setting.

i've modding fallout 4 since early days and im still playing fallout 4 with over 200 mods and have always found CPU to be a big burden in that game, it's just the way the game and the engine are, it was the same with skyrim..

 

[Krenum]

random drops on FPS on fallout 4 at or around Diamond city, financial district, good neighbor are more related to CPU single thread performance than any other thing, im CPU bottlenecked at 1080P even with my 6700K at 4.8ghz. for all of those with weaker CPUs I always recommend to use insignificant object remover mod it's an amazing mod, it helped extremely nice my brothers machine which sport an i7 2600@4ghz with a GTX 980, huge performance boost in those areas, for those who can't turn on Godrays Ultra without the stupid performance hit you can use Ultra Quality God Rays Performance Fix Mod another great mod worth to try on mid to low end machines, again tested on the same i7 2600 + 980 and worked flawlessly. even tested on a 3770K@ 4.5 + R9 390X (which suffers more with godrays) and results were stellar, just don't forget to turn up god rays up to ultra setting.

i've modding fallout 4 since early days and im still playing fallout 4 with over 200 mods and have always found CPU to be a big burden in that game, it's just the way the game and the engine are, it was the same with skyrim..

Thanks for the Godrays Mod, Will try soon!


I have a 6700K also @ 4.7, I thought for sure that the 6700K would have enough single threaded power to not get bottlenecked in F4, I'm assuming its the lackluster engine

 

[Araxie]

Thanks for the Godrays Mod, Will try soon!


I have a 6700K also @ 4.7, I thought for sure that the 6700K would have enough single threaded power to not get bottlenecked in F4, I'm assuming its the lackluster engine

physics still run with a single thread, and also rendering engine run with a single thread, so the game require two very strong Threads, the rest of the loads AI and calculations run in the rest of the threads. I think it will need about 5.2ghz and ultra fast RAM to be able to sustain high FPS regardless of the place as financial district in example. fallout 4 at 120hz it's amazing, one of the few games that really worth the performance to sustain 100hz+ sync'd.

The mod totally Worth, also if you are interesting i can't be tired enough of recommend NAC Mod it also includes the fix for God Rays.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I never messed around with Lynnfield (only Bloomfield and Westmere), but isn't 3.6GHz a little on the conservative end?
Then again, I might have been spoiled by the half dozen 920 D0s that all hit 4GHz+ with very low Vcore.

 

[horrorshow]

I never messed around with Lynnfield (only Bloomfield and Westmere), but isn't 3.6GHz a little on the conservative end?
Then again, I might have been spoiled by the half dozen 920 D0s that all hit 4GHz+ with very low Vcore.

I'm certain I could push it farther, but again, my motherboard isn't exactly meant for overclocking

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

I'm certain I could push it farther, but again, my motherboard isn't exactly meant for overclocking

Likewise am not familiar with Lynnfield mobos, but all my 920 D0 OCs were on "cheap" Gigabyte EX58-UD3Rs.
Half dozen UD3R + 920 D0 combos, all from the MicroCenter in Minneapolis

 

[horrorshow]

Sorry to necro this thread, but I just discovered a useful tidbit regarding Gigabyte motherboards:

At the main BIOS screen, hit "CTRL-F1" to unlock certain advanced settings.

I finally managed to disable CPU Spread Spectrum.... Huzzah!

 

[pendragon1]

that ctrl+f1 advanced menu thing works on a lot of mobos...
also, there was no necro here, thread started in aug.