i looked up a few oc benchmarks for the 560 ti, it seems if you can overclock it to roughly 1,000Mhz Core, and 5,000Mhz Ram it is just as fast as a stock 570 and 6870.
http://www.techspot.com/review/359-nvidia-geforce-gtx-560ti/page12.html
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/nvidia-geforce-gtx-560-ti-gf114,2845-14.html
It's really easy to overclock a video card, its just sliders in the driver control panel.
If you go too far, the computer just locks up its no big deal. I wouldn't overclock the video card till your 100% sure your cpu overclock is stable.
My video cards never oc as much as the ones reviewers get... good luck!
no matter what clocks you get your still ahead bang for buck wise.
Ram: Will the ram I got work with the CPU or not? I already ordered the ram. =/
You need to get 1.5v ram, go with mfenns suggestion.
If you manually downclock the RAM to 1333Mhz then you MIGHT be able to lower the voltage to 1.5v
I still stand by my previous comments that you're spending too much in places where it doesn't matter. However, the parts you've picked out (other than the RAM) will work together.
And I've talked to numerous people that told me that the ram will work.
Yes, it will "work" at 1.65V, for a while at least. However, know that you're slowly killing your CPU.
You really confuse me to be honest. You cheap out where it matters, but spend a bunch of extra money where it doesn't.
How did I "cheap out" where it mattered? I got the ram that I thought was going to be good for a really good deal. I upgraded the CPU/GPU/SSD because I did have the extra budget. I got a bigger power supply even though I might not need it. So where did I exactly "cheap out"?
How did I "cheap out" where it mattered? I got the ram that I thought was going to be good for a really good deal. I upgraded the CPU/GPU/SSD because I did have the extra budget. I got a bigger power supply even though I might not need it. So where did I exactly "cheap out"?
Bolded the place where you cheaped out. You saw a low price, then the "gotta save some money" instinct took over and you purchased without researching fully.
Got the PC up and running perfect! Now I just need to see about overclocking it :-D
at least 4.0ghz i used to think 4.0ghz was the magical number to oc, now its 5ghz
Just messing around with it, I got it to 4.4ghz so far =D
Grats! 4.4Ghz is pretty much the sweet spot for hassle-free Sandy Bridge overclocking.
Ya, ran into a problem though. Was playing battlefield bad company on all high settings for about an hour and the cpu ran hot. I had to tune it down a notch =/