Anyone sell overclocked pc's?

[Miramonti]

I want a very fast overclocked system for work but don't currently have the mental bandwidth/time/desire to research and build a system, while at the same time also learning the latest cpu/motherboard/chipset overclocking theologies and techniques. Is there anyone somewhat reputable that sells o/c'ed pc systems with some sort of warranty or guarantee anymore?

 

[Rifter]

Even if it is warrantied you need to consider what your time and work is worth. What good is a warranty if you have to send the computer in for repairs?

Overclocking is never guaranteed and i would not use a overclocked system in a work/production environment.

 

[DaveSimmons]

99% stable can mean corrupted documents and databases. With corruption that you might not detect until you've done days of additional work using those documents.

If this is for real, paid work you're better off paying more for a faster stock system. Is a Ryzen 1800X or i7-7700K not fast enough at stock for your needs?

 

[Miramonti]

Even if it is warrantied you need to consider what your time and work is worth. What good is a warranty if you have to send the computer in for repairs?

Overclocking is never guaranteed and i would not use a overclocked system in a work/production environment.

Warranty isn't worth as much as someone that stands behind their product, ie if it says it's 4.8ghz, it is stable in a normal room temp when I receive it.

99% stable can mean corrupted documents and databases. With corruption that you might not detect until you've done days of additional work using those documents.

If this is for real, paid work you're better off paying more for a faster stock system. Is a Ryzen 1800X or i7-7700K not fast enough at stock for your needs?

I've always used an o'c pc for work, at least over the last dozen+ years. Sometimes I've had to dial it down but data/software is somewhat fail-safe and corruption is not an issue, should a system show instability and crash. An oc'ed 7700k to 5000ghz would be perfect, but I'd probably settle for 4800ghz. It has to be enough faster than my current system to warrant an upgrade, where speed is the primary variable, and I think 4800ghz on this chip is my threshold.

 

[KompuKare]

It has to be enough faster than my current system to warrant an upgrade, where speed is the primary variable, and I think 4800ghz on this chip is my threshold.

But are you sure that your current tasks are CPU limited?
Or to be even more precise, are single-threaded or max 4/8 thread limited?

Because if the bottleneck is elsewhere you might be better investing in super fast M.2 SSD or similar. Or if your tasks genuinely are CPU limited but scale well with CPU cores, you can buy a 6C/8C/10C etc. system. Ryzen for instance probably won't even cost you more than what some would charge for a guaranteed overclock. Or (at a higher cost) an Intel HEDT system, or even LGA2011v3 with Xeon and ECC (ECC is also an option for some Ryzen boards).

 

[Miramonti]

But are you sure that your current tasks are CPU limited?
Or to be even more precise, are single-threaded or max 4/8 thread limited?

Because if the bottleneck is elsewhere you might be better investing in super fast M.2 SSD or similar. Or if your tasks genuinely are CPU limited but scale well with CPU cores, you can buy a 6C/8C/10C etc. system. Ryzen for instance probably won't even cost you more than what some would charge for a guaranteed overclock. Or (at a higher cost) an Intel HEDT system, or even LGA2011v3 with Xeon and ECC (ECC is also an option for some Ryzen boards).

I wish, but unfortunately I'm confined to a single-threaded database-type app and am dependent on raw single core speed. It reads/writes everything in a ramdisk as well.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Problem solved.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I do sell some overclocked rigs, but nothing as exotic as 5Ghz. Mostly just 4.0+Ghz G3258 rigs, primarily for web browsing, and some overclocked i5 Skylake rigs for gaming. I would be "uncomfortable" selling an overclocked rig for any type of business or engineering work. Only "trivial" stuff like web browsing or gaming.

 

[DaveSimmons]

Falcon Northwest offers liquid-cooled i7-7700K systems with a factory overclock and warranty but they don't list a guaranteed speed.

https://www.falcon-nw.com/desktops/overview

 

[Miramonti]

Problem solved.

Fascinating, that's awesome, thanks. I didn't want to build something myself but that would clearly make it worth while.

 

[ancapdev]

CIARA Technologies ciaratech.com are quite popular in high frequency trading, with very robust systems for the frequency and operating environment they run in.

 

[Thunder 57]

Problem solved.

Ouch, $200 more for 200MHz extra? Talk about diminishing ROI.

 

[frozentundra123456]

I believe Digital Storm also sells overclocked systems. That said, I have the same reservations as a lot of other posters. A stock 7700k has a base clock of 4.2 ghz and single core turbo of 4.5 I believe. The most you are likely to get on top of that is another 10% or so. Is that really worth the extra initial cost, additional heat and power usage, and possible instability of an overclocked system?

 

[IEC]

Single threaded? i3-7350K, OC to 5GHz, done.

 

[escrow4]

Warranty isn't worth as much as someone that stands behind their product, ie if it says it's 4.8ghz, it is stable in a normal room temp when I receive it.



I've always used an o'c pc for work, at least over the last dozen+ years. Sometimes I've had to dial it down but data/software is somewhat fail-safe and corruption is not an issue, should a system show instability and crash. An oc'ed 7700k to 5000ghz would be perfect, but I'd probably settle for 4800ghz. It has to be enough faster than my current system to warrant an upgrade, where speed is the primary variable, and I think 4800ghz on this chip is my threshold.

Somewhat, should, dial it down, threshold. Ain't stable, ain't reliable.