Upgraded my CPU and am very pleased

Whys that? I built my own... Lol

I used a pogram to disable tlb back in wow days. Helped immensely

Hey everyone...

Is there any need to Overclock a Intel® Core™ i7-3930K Six-Core 3.20 GHz 12MB Intel Smart Cache LGA2011?

The place I am buying my PC from has an option where they will overclock it 30% from the factory as long as you make sure all other parts are OC Certified by them.

I was just wondering if you guys think there would be any need to overclock this CPU within the next couple of years.

Also... could them overclocking it 30% make it's life shorter or mess it up?

I guess what I am asking is should i order it overclocked or not?
I know I could take it to a shop in the future if i needed it overclocked but if it would be wise to get it out of the way and go ahead and do it then i will.

And they do this for free.
Opinions?

For the person who asked, I use a hyper 212+ cooler and am clocked at 4.5 on my i5

Yes oc but I wouldn't say you need to but id take it while you can get it. just make sure they don't make it go over 70c on a stress test and stable

No.

You should use the SSD as your OS drive.

There is a reason they are selling it this way. Ignore the other poster. The vast majority of system builders will tell you without hesitating that putting the OS on an SSD is perfectly normal and even recommended. Don't expect it to have any huge impact on gameplay. It simply won't, no matter how you use the SSD. However, the most common use of an SSD is as an OS drive.

If you don't want to trust some guy on the SWTOR forum, just check any of those links, or post the question yourself on places like AnandTech or [H]ardforum. Even the people at Tom's Hardware will tell you the same thing.

That's weird. I called the place selling these and they said it would be fine to swap the first hard drive from a SSD drive to one that is not SSD, and have them both as non SSD drives with one used as the OS drive. Why could I not do this?
I was not asking if I should use the SSD for games and the Regular HD for the OS.
I was asking about getting rid of having the SSD all together and having TWO regular HD's instead of one SDD and one regular HD.

I went to Tom's Hardware and it seems they think SSD's are NOT the best drives right now, and that they have much higher failure rates and do not last as long.
And that as time goes on after 2yrs.. the failure rates go much higher.
Also from what I am reading the SSD's do NOT make your games run any faster or better, they just make load times a little shorter in between action.

Look at this article by them:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...rate,2923.html

I'd still like to know...
Why can't I replace that first HD with a regular HD and not use a SSD?
Thus having a regular HD for the HD and a different regular HD as the Data Hard drive?
(Two regular HDD's and not a SDD)
Is there some reason why this cannot be done?

I was wanting to use a 600GB Gaming Western Digital VelociRaptor 10,000RPM SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 32MB Cache WD6000HLHX for the OS HD and also use it to put this game on perhaps... or should I use this HD as the Data HD,
and make the 2TB (2TBx1) SATA-III 6.0Gb/s 64MB Cache 7200RPM HDD the OS Hard drive (Running only the OS on it), and run the games on the 600GB Gaming Western Digital?

You are well behind the times. Old HDTVs stopped at 60Hz now 240Hz + is easy to find.

Intel > AMD on most games performance wise, take a look at various benchmarks. So clearly most people here complaining about low fps bla or performance issues are the AMD owners.

Congrats with your i5 processor. I got i7 myself and no performance issues.