i was satisfied with the game at the current hardware setup but ran into a few bugs yestaday when i updated my Deadly dragons version forcing me to delete all my saves back to Helgen,these were the specs i had yesterday.

Phii 6 standard 3.2
Hyperxblu 8 gig 1333 autotuned to 1600
6850 standard 775 autotuned to 840 whenever
standard sata 3 2tb
h50 wcooler
750w psu

Today same setup but autotuned the chip to 3.6

I would'nt mind trying to take it to 4ghz but was wondering if anyone out there who has a simular system done it with a factory cooler and is the 750 up to it?

I should never have installed Skyrim wars,i think it broke my game but liked it too much.

The Mobo was a mistake should of went to the 990fx chipset.

880gma-ud2h

I bought it at the begining of last year.

Uh, what's the CPU? You haven't given enough info here...

I am assuming by this


He means Phenom IIx6 at 3.2Ghz

I can't tell cause he lists 775 with the 6850. OP, please list your specs correctly. It'd help

sorry

Phenom 2, 6 core 3.2 ghz
gpu hd radeon 6850 standard mhz 775
mobo 880gma-ud2h
corsair h50 watercooler
thermaltake 750w

You'll be pushing it, I think. Someone else can chime in here, but I wouldn't be trying that much on a 750W PSU on an old chipset. However, I'm not too familiar with AMD stuff so that's just a general observation...

Yeah that was a sneaky suspicion thats been at the back of my head but what would a standard psu be for 4 ghz?

In general, I'd be more comfortable with a 1kW, though an 850 may work. Then again, I don't usually go with AMD so an 850 may work.

I hit 4Ghz on an AMD 955 with a 750W PSU. And I hit 5Ghz with the same PSU on my i7. In general, a 750W is overkill for a single GPU system.

Eh, I tend to err on the side of extreme caution >_>

Hell a 1kw! then it's a full watercool job,can't afford that though i would love to have one

Real men use car radiators. Just saying. But if you want to put your mind at ease, then go with an 850.

well the idea was to crossfire later on but the mobo's pci setup was right next to each other and i didn't notice it til i had the system for a week,i almost threw it out the window.

When gaming, would you rather have your mind focused on keeping Lydia alive or keeping your CPU alive? At least Lydia does not age.

i got sick of cleaning my old heatsinks i have enough trouble cleaning the frikkin 5 fans the case came with.

I overclocked my i5 2500k from base 3.2 up to 4.5 the other day. It made hardly any difference whatsoever in Skyrim, 1 or 2 frames perhaps.

I have a 5870, older but more powerful than your 6850 and it seems to be holding back my games performance. It seems Skyrim is very demanding on not just your CPU but your GPU too.

the corsair h50? any good or?

I thought the game was a more cpu killer but granted i'm actually not happy with 6850,i was going to crossfire with but alas that went down the toilet.

i got a 1055 with a 5750 radeon on that one for the family tv,the only difference i saw was one gave brighter colours.

The thing is is that the trees are popping up not far from my character,whereis before i had skyrim wars and the latest deadly dragons it rendered smooth.at standard settings and i'm getting loading stutter as i near an area where npc's spawn.

You only got this problem since you installed a new version of the Deadly Dragon mod? That would suggest to me its the mod causing issues, especially if you were fine before. Have you checked if other people are getting problems with the new version of Deadly Dragons?

The game apparently renders shadows using your CPU, so yes it is heavy on your CPU. But it also uses a lot of VRAM, when that runs out performance will drop (almost 100% of mine is being uses BEFORE installing any texutre mods). If you do decide to further overclock and like me, don't see a performance increase, its not your CPU holding back your performance, (obviously).

Just to ask, are you using the 1.4 beta of Skyrim yet? Switching from 1.3 to 1.4 is an immense, like can't understate this: immense gain in CPU efficiency from the game. Per clock rate I have to agree that going over the 3.6ghz mark is likely not going to net you any further gains just less CPU usage percentage wise against the higher clock rates. I have to do silly things like loading 50-200 NPCs to tax out my CPU at 4.6Ghz for instance (and believe me you get 200 skeevers on screen and you'll see CPU saturation ) but under normal conditions its rarely to even see the primary thread rockin' more then 60% of one 4.6Ghz 2600k's core.

Even if your system can handle an overclock no problem, some games just do not get along with an overclocked card, coincidentally Bethesda games do not play well with overclocked cards.

Yep i updated to 1.4 but it was still there so i deactivated the two mods in question,which bummed me out as they give skyrim some fun but again i was getting ctd's in the end i killed all my saves back to a stable helgen save,manually wiped the mods out and well got no ctd's but the micro-freeze of new areas being rendered are still there.

Having the chip at 3.6 only made the game alittle smoother,hope it's not the gcard,i had sunnies tracer arrows installed but took it out when the game did'nt flush? the arrows that landed on the ground and could'nt be recovered,they were still there after the mod was cleaned out.That got me worried as you can't have too many things being rendered when they should not be there.

I've got skyboost going aswel,tookout a few 2k mods as i thought one has to stop and look at them to appreciate them otherwise i'm running right passed them and take no notice.


i figured i would downgrade the shadows but for the life of me i can't remember where it is to chop them to medium,i thought it was in options on the splash screen,nothing there but i distinctly remember playing with it last year.

I seemed to have things fixed for now,found shadows set them to high, only noticed that the face looked crap when the shadows moved.

any suggestions which prog is best to use for an amd overclock?

Out of curiousity, what is considered a safe GPU temp? If I get it up to 70 or little above is that getting into dangerous territory?