It's not for everyone I guess. Though I do scratch my heads when I see people leave their K-rated Intel CPUs at stock
sorry but overclocking can make a nice difference that is most certainly worth it. its just free performance sitting there so its stupid not to use it if you know what you are doing. I never add extra voltage or push my stuff to the limits but no way am I not going to at least oc my cpu and gpu a little.
you dont get 60 fps minimum in ALL games and thats a fact
i like to use vsync so adjust options that get me 60 fps. without my cpu oced its an issue but wit it oced there are only few places in 3 or 4 games that it will ever drop below 60.Even a very stable OC won't save you from buggy games that can and will cause a good OC to become unstable and that goes for factory OC'ed GPU's, dunno how many people had to raise the voltage or lower OC on OC edition cards for BF3 alone, tons of posts.
You wont when OC'ing either. The average sustained frame rates that give smooth gameplay is plenty enough to enjoy video games unless you have some OCD issues which is what many tweakers suffer from. Obsessively tweaking your system gets you where in life exactly? Get some med drugs so you can sit back and just enjoy the damn games.
without additional voltage, 4.4 or 4.5 will not reduce any useful life of a 2500k.I have only mild clock on CPU @ 4Ghz as I believe this is a sweet spot for now and 4.5+ will only reduce the life on the equipment...As for GPU, only when at the end of their life or usefulness, will I push them for extra performance....But Im no hard out gamer now, a few FFS dont mean much to me...
without additional voltage, 4.4 or 4.5 will not reduce any useful life of a 2500k.
oh. mine is auto voltage at 4.4 which actually goes quite a bit higher than what is actually needed for 4.4 or even 4.5. problem is my board does not like to do the traditional overclocking so I use the turbo method. and btw my pc spends almost half of its life off or in stand by and even when on its just at 1.6 idle speeds and voltage 90% of the time.It might be the power delivery, however I have found it difficult to clock that high & stable, without additional voltage...
oh. mine is auto voltage at 4.4 which is actually goes quite a bit higher than what is actually need for 4.4 or even 4.5. problem is my board does not like to do the traditional overclocking so I use the turbo method.
oh. mine is auto voltage at 4.4 which actually goes quite a bit higher than what is actually needed for 4.4 or even 4.5. problem is my board does not like to do the traditional overclocking so I use the turbo method. and btw my pc spends almost half of its life off or in stand by and even when on its just at 1.6 idle speeds and voltage 90% of the time.
yes I was just saying that 4.4 or 4.5 can be done in the traditional way with even less voltage so its odd that he would need to add more.Nothing wrong with a little auto voltage,if the load temps are good and the core voltage is in the green then heck i would leave it alone.
Huh ?
If you look at the overall population using Intel x86-based CPUs, there are way less than 1 percent of them overclocked. Probably not even 0.1%. You guys are all biased, because you read websites like AnandTech. But in the real world nobody bothers.
Businesses, organizations, universities don't overclock their servers or desktops. Too risky. Too much hassle.
People don't overclock their laptops. That uses too much battery life, and makes laptops overheat. If you think performance is so important that you want to go through the trouble of overclocking your laptop, just buy a desktop.
Most people just do email, surf, twitter and facebook. Do some online shopping. And maybe do taxes once a year. No need to overclock. But also, they lack the skills or guts to even change one setting in the BIOS. ("WTF is a bioz ?").
Most gamers have no clue about what's inside their machine. Yes, suppose there are a million gamers who overclock their PCs. That is still not enough to be significant on a world-wide scale.
On a total of 1.5 billion PCs in use worldwide, plus 50 million servers (that are Intel x86 based), that one million gamers is less than 0.1%. Google alone has 1 million servers running (all x86-based, afaik). If you look at all the Intel-cpus that are not overclocked, you wonder why Intel bothers with K-versions of their chips.
yes I was just saying that 4.4 or 4.5 can be done in the traditional way with even less voltage so its odd that he would need to add more.
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Yeah, if 0.1% of users know how to OC, I'd be surprised. If 10% of those actually OC their rigs, I'd be surprised. But then, 0.0001 x 2 billion still leaves 100,000 to 200,000 OCers out there, worldwide. Does that sound about right?
It's not for everyone I guess. Though I do scratch my heads when I see people leave their K-rated Intel CPUs at stock