CloD and overclocking

[Qpassa]

I have my 920 at 3.8 Ghz

[III/JG53_Don]

Taking this into consideration it seems to be more like a problem of the ineffective utilisation of multi cores..... so the game benefits mainly from the oc of the first core and minor from the other 3 i guess.

further enhancements of the multi core utilisation would equilize the benfits of overclocking i suppose... as soon as dynamic weather and maybe AI are transfered to the other cores.

[AKA_Tenn]

i think how this game works is more like... it uses 1 core as the main one, and offloads smaller tasks to the other cores, that way if you only have a two cores, it can offload multiple tasks to the second core without bogging it down... games are still not truly multi-threaded yet

[l3uLLDoZeR]

To answer your question, YES overclocking your cpu makes a huge difference in this game. I don't think the number of cores matters as much as speed, so overclocking is the way to go.

I had an e8400 overclocked to 3.6ghz and it ran the game pretty well.
Now I have a i2500K @ 4.5 ghz ....so 2 extra cores and a higher overclock. I gained about 15fps and got to turn a few setting from medium to high, but nothing drastic.

Whatever cpu you have it's worth overclocking as long as you have good cooling in your case and for the cpu. Don't crank anything with a stock cooler!

[CWMV]

Shameless plug for my Zallman CPU fan. Keeps the i7 2600K cool at 4.4ghz. Even with CoD maxed out ASUS monitor has never registered the CPU temp higher than 51*

[FS~Phat]

Going above 4.2Ghz is diminishing returns as you become more dependant on GPU. I cant wait to see what the next overhauled beta does, they are promising a minimum 50% performance increase from rewriting the core/graphics engine.

I have 4way SLI that is going to waste at the moment with this game as it doesnt even support 2way SLI! None of the SLI workarounds make any difference with 4way SLI for me so hopefully I can get back close to the performance I was getting with 4way Xfire which was 200FPS+ compared to 60FPS with SLI not working

[cronustr]

I have a laptop with i5-2430m 2.4ghz cpu and Nvidia GT540m with 2MB gpu. I'm overcloking the gpu from the stock 672Mhz to 800Mhz and memory from stock 800Mhz to 1000Mhz. System is %100 stable, gpu is at 74C maximum and performance gain is very good. I'm using native resolution of 1366*768 with grass, shadows off, roads detail off, buildings detail low, forests ver low before and barely playable at crowded air wars. But now it's quite smooth with these settings.

[ATAG_Septic]

Originally Posted by Qpassa

I have my 920 at 3.8 Ghz

I run my 930 at 4.2 stable and cool, water-cooled. I might not be quite so adventurous with different motherboard etc.

Thanks very much for sharing your results Cheesehawk, I've often wondered whether it's a benefit to Clod but don't have the patience to do scientific tests (I always seem to end up changing more than one setting between tests!)

[III/JG53_Don]

Are some technical details of the new Ivy Bridges allready known? Like how many cores and with which initial ghz they run? Any Price speculations?
I just found very general informations about it, but nothing more...