Neat increase! I'd highly recommended a better aircooler regardless, that 1 core will make a huge difference in frametimes and 1% lows etc.
You could even delid the i3 to lower temps and get 5ghz on all cores without bad temps.
Gonna oc my x5650 today, expect some pics soon T4C
3.8ghz and 1.3v ran cinebench about 10 times - seems stable. Had to run the ram at 1200mhz instead of 1333 as bclk overclocking would push it to 2000 lol.
Hi yeah delid will be ideal in future but for now run good aprox 65 to 68 degrees on game* and 71 degrees on handbrake
*In some games up 70 degrees but low to 68 degrees
In my case use lower resolution dont more 720p and dont use lastest games, another thing is use linux mainly (especially wine: this is a main goal for this cpu because wine needs so much single thread performance)
This is a example with saint row the third native with pentium G3258 @ 4.1ghz
And now with core i3 tri-core 5.0ghz
In both cases geforce GTX 1050 is used
Benefits here:
- lower cpu usage
- higher performance
Your call, but i'd highly recommend against having 3 cores on a cpu, 4 is hardly enough even for me when i game a 2160p 60hz ultra
This is especially usefull when your apps dont use more than 3 cores and use more frecuency than cores
