I suppose you're going to tell me I need to experiment with the individual motherboard and CPU that I have. That's fine because I have no idea what settings to even try to tweak anyway. The last thing I over clocked was my heart and that was only when I saw Phoebe Cates in "Fast Times at Ridgemont High". So needless to say, any help would be greatly appreciated. I am in possession of a Core i5 2500k, a Gigabyte Z68X-UD3P-B3, and 8gb of G.Skill Ripjaws-X DDR3 2133 memory. I'm not sure what video card to get but any advice on that would be well received.So please advise and thanks for any help :)MarkBTW...my signature...that's my other system...

I have the exact same parts so this is what I did. First I disabled Turbo boost, C1E, C3 and C6 State support, CPU thermal monitor, CPU SIST function and Bi-Directional PROCHOT. Then I put the multiplier to 40x then ran a stress test. Nothing really needs to be done with the voltage at 40x. Then what you should do is start playing with the voltage if you find it a bit instable, don't go past 1.35 is what I have been told. If you have it fully stable start to increase it in 100MHz increments. This is what I did, the system is stable but FSX, not so good.Stick with your old GPU.

Thanks again! I wonder if we're using the same parts because we're in the same region of the world! (Except that I hang with the crims in Sydney these days :)Also, thanks for the advice on the GPU. You know, I might be inclined to get the Super Over clocked version of it because they're starting to be available locally. (I actually was considering a trip home to Santa Monica California to send some stuff back but now...)So that's all you have to do...hummm...I'll give it a whirl as soon as I pickup my new video card. Does your CPU Cooler do a good job...I mean, what kind of temps are you seeing?Mark

i wouldn't bother, just manually OC it.

I cannot tell you about OC'ing your CPU , why do you want to OC ? Are you not getting performance in FSX ?

i wouldn't bother, just manually OC it.

I'm not going to pull the TI from the XP32 system. It needs to stay intact in case I need to use it. So, (unfortunately), I need to buy another card. The super over clocked TI seems like a good bargain but would love comments to justify a GTX580.

I cannot tell you about OC'ing your CPU , why do you want to OC ? Are you not getting performance in FSX ?

If there is someone out there who wouldn't want more speed and better frame rates while using X then that person is probably already OCing their box!Mark

560TI for the bang for buck option but the ASUS GTX 570 Directcu ii is a great overclocker and would easily reach speeds of a GTX 580. Speaking of overclocking it, I have to use ASUS smart doctor cos it has a custom PCB but when I restart the system, it goes back to default settings, anyone know how to fix this?

If there is someone out there who wouldn't want more speed and better frame rates while using X then that person is probably already OCing their box! Mark

LOL yaya my box has been OC'ed , I thought that I should ask you if you were having any performance issues as there were no details on the performance in your post.

How do you overclock a box?

How do you overclock a box?

hahaha the box reference is to my rig.

Ah, lol. interesting.