To be honest I am not even sure how to overclock. Probably wouldn't until I got more comfortable with all this stuff. I get the idea of it, but still will just leave it alone ha Basically aren't you over running the cards to squeeze more power out, while potentially having a hire risk of failure? Are you overclocking for Beam?
Blue, take over the factual side of the talk again. Thanks. @Jacob Carlson the CPU is overclockable via the BIOS, the GPU... What do I know.
A i5-4460 isn't designed to be overclocked. If you're thinking about possibly overclocking, you should go with a K-suffix part (e.g: i5-4690K) and a Z97 chipset motherboard.
You can do that, of course. I'd try it on stock clock first though. Should be enough, EDIT: at first.
As of now I ordered the NZXT Elite with only one fan pre-installed. I probably won't be overclocking, should I bee installing more fans anyways?
Get yourself two to three more fans. You need one up front, one in the back and one on the side. At the most minimum; more fans are almost always better.
alright well I'll decide on the EVGA 2.0+ or the G1 tomorrow, may just stick with the EVGA since I'm over budget anyways. Wish me luck on assembly lol
CPU is overclocked through BIOS, not all motherboards and CPUs support overclocking, for example the 4460 cannot be overclocked. You need a K processor and a Z series motherboard. GPU is overclocked through a control utility such as MSI Afterburner. Pretty much any GPU can be overclocked and most are factory overclocked. If you're over budget definitely go for EVGA, it's still a great card. Glad to have helped, and have fun building!
So I got my PC together. I played Beam a little bit. I can run on high with reflections. I can run 3 vehicles with no frame rate drop. I added in a semi as a fourth and it dropped to 30. I would say it seems pretty good. Not sure how to even control more than one vehicle at a time so I don't think it matters. I am trying to find a way to monitor cpu temp and gpu temp. Is there gadgets, apps, widgets, etc (not sure the name) that you know of?
hwmonitor is a good one, as is rainmeter. the ladder takes a little more fiddling, while the former can just be installed.
MSI afterburner allows you to display frame rate, temperatures and load for both GPU and CPU, and more in real time. You can also overclock your GPU or set custom fan curves. If all you want is to track max temps, HWmonitor is lightweight and easy to install.
Regarding base clock overclocking, this guide is meant for beginners. I cannot recommend BCLK tweaking to anyone who doesn't know what they're doing extremely well. Same goes for the new overclocking B/H-boards - I simply cannot recommend them to anyone. They're not officially supported by Intel, were said to be unreliable by some important manufacturers (ASUS), and are what I can only describe as a horrible hack. Just add $20 to your budget and buy a proper Z-board. Thanks for the RAM info though - with DDR3, RAM speed didn't really do much for performance. Looks like that's changed with DDR4 and its higher speeds. --- Post updated --- Updated: Rewrote RAM section. Thanks to @Darren9 for info. --- Post updated --- Updated: Added CPU coolers. Probably the longest part yet.
Have you heard of the new Mini-STX Mainboards? Tell me your thoughts, BlueScreen. (Checked it. You can at least fit an i5-6400 on it, I'll look if I can find other ones.)
essentially a nano ITX... Both seem pointless to me beyond mini ITX What would be interesting is if someone made one with an onboard discrete GPU
You can build some really nice office PCs with that, or you can make it a console replacement. Totally about efficiently using space. I don't understand, please give me more information in the most basic English you can talk. Like you would talk to a three year old.
No PCI-E slots, M.2 storage only, it's useless. ITX is only slightly larger and can be used for a fully featured PC.
