[poll] do you lie about your overclock in your sig? have you ever?

[soccerballtux]

Just last night, I turned my overclock down to 4.3ghz because of the heat, and felt bad for being dishonest :hmm:

what's the worst lie you've told? did you feel good about it fooling the n00bs, or did you realize it was pointless?

 

[Harrod]

I'm guilty of this, I'm not running the cpu in my sig right now, but am going to switch back to it in a few weeks.

 

[crashtech]

The closest I have come to lying is cranking up the voltage and opening the window on a winter night to be able to run good numbers. Suicide run stuff. But I don't put that in my sig.

 

[Zodiark1593]

Meh, have no reason to lie about my pc. It's pretty low end for anything but browsing nowadays.

 

[MongGrel]

I just leave my X5680 at 4.5.

It can go faster but what I use it at, have never had it in my signature I guess.

 

[sandorski]

Sort of. My CPU is currently as stated in my sig, 4ghz, but a month back I reset it back to default a few times due to overheating under certain circumstances. A cleaning of my Rad has remedied the situation though.

 

[YBS1]

I will put benchmarking speeds in sig, but have never implied those are my daily driver numbers.

5960X - 4.75Ghz - daily is 4.5Ghz
3930K - 5.1Ghz - daily is 4.6Ghz
X5670 - 4.9Ghz - daily was anywhere from 4.44 to 4.68 depending upon mood.

 

[alcoholbob]

My sig used to say 5ghz for my 4790k but I didn't like running it at 1.3v to reach that speed. So yes I have benchmarked it at 5ghz but in actuallity I run it at 4.8ghz 24/7 at 1.22v since its recommended you stay under 1.25v on Haswell.

Is this thread a poll you're making for psych class? Lol

 

[BonzaiDuck]

The ASUS BIOS's have a "profiles" section allowing you to name each profile.

On my two Sandy Bridgers, I've got maybe four or five profiles that are "finished" and "validated" for each one, at different speeds.

Occasionally I may drop the clock back a 100Mhz notch if there is something that needs tweaking at the higher speed, but I've had these chips for a while: so what I post is as good as butter on toast.

I should probably update the sig to show the 2700K machine I used to replace a dying system last fall.

 

[soccerballtux]

Sort of. My CPU is currently as stated in my sig, 4ghz, but a month back I reset it back to default a few times due to overheating under certain circumstances. A cleaning of my Rad has remedied the situation though.

if you have to clean it more than once every 5 years it's not worth the effort IMHO. That's mainly why I like 25-45% on my 133CFM fan. It idles at 25% 500RPM so basically nothing, and only ocasionally spins up to %45, which still hasn't caused any problems even after years on the cooler

I will put benchmarking speeds in sig, but have never implied those are my daily driver numbers.

5960X - 4.75Ghz - daily is 4.5Ghz
3930K - 5.1Ghz - daily is 4.6Ghz
X5670 - 4.9Ghz - daily was anywhere from 4.44 to 4.68 depending upon mood.

see, now that's dishonest to me

 

[soccerballtux]

My sig used to say 5ghz for my 4790k but I didn't like running it at 1.3v to reach that speed. So yes I have benchmarked it at 5ghz but in actuallity I run it at 4.8ghz 24/7 at 1.22v since its recommended you stay under 1.25v on Haswell.

Is this thread a poll you're making for psych class? Lol

under 1.25 eh? interesting!

 

[sandorski]

if you have to clean it more than once every 5 years it's not worth the effort IMHO. That's mainly why I like 25-45% on my 133CFM fan. It idles at 25% 500RPM so basically nothing, and only ocasionally spins up to %45, which still hasn't caused any problems even after years on the cooler





see, now that's dishonest to me

My main problem is that I smoke right in front of my case. So dust sticks to the fins. So #don'teverstart or something. :biggrin:

 

[soccerballtux]

My main problem is that I smoke right in front of my case. So dust sticks to the fins. So #don'teverstart or something. :biggrin:

switch to vaping

 

[sandorski]

switch to vaping

I should, but we're veering.

 

[crashtech]

Where I live, the HSFs get clogged fairly rapidly, a six month service interval nets great clouds of dust when blowing out a case (non-smoking). Some areas are worse than others.

 

[VirtualLarry]

I voted "No", but in the interest of full disclosure, I had two identical rigs (E2140 @ 3.2). Well, one rig didn't fully like 400FSB, and would reboot, after a week or four of uptime, doing 24/7 DC loads. I had to clock one of them down to 2.8, but I didn't update my .sig right away, because it entailed splitting one rig line into two.

Edit: I did buy a Q6600 and OC it to 3.6Ghz, partially just so I could put it into my .sig and join the "3.6Ghz club", but that wasn't a lie, it actually ran at that speed, for 24/7 for a month doing F@H during the Dec. race, and never crashed or blue-screened. I was using a $260 DFI X48 overclocker motherboard though (one of the first with integrated digital-control VRMs).

 

[NTMBK]

Frankly, I only ever read people's "rig" sigs when I am in the VC&G forums, and checking whether a poster is biased because they have 3 Titans in their PC and are trying to validate their purchase by crapping on AMD.

 

[JimmiG]

No, been running the CPU in my sig at the same since I de-lidded it in 2013. It will get *really* close to throttling when running pure AVX tests, but it's 100% stable.

 

[moonbogg]

I lied indirectly and was without knowledge of it. I had my CPU at 4.3 for years when the whole time I could have been running it at 4.6. This is a much worse sin IMO.

 

[IGemini]

Nope. I update with OC values if I'm using them.

My current machine is well-suited for overclocking but haven't taken the time to experiment yet. The silicon lottery was really good with my Q9650. Most of the time I was able to run that at 3.6GHz @ 1.8v (stock was 3GHz @ 1.225v).

 

[manimal]

I change my crap around so much I stopped updating my sig. Its now a museum piece. For its day it wasnt bad

 

[Ketchup]

I may have once upon a time. Been too long. I don't show that I do or don't now. And 99% of the time I don't have one.

 

[DeathReborn]

No, what would be the point? Only those who need their ego stroked would do it. The closest I have come is rounding to nearest .1GHz.

I only ever put what my chips have done in my own hands. I do try and seperate max OC and daily levels so as to show what it can do & it what it is doing.

 

[lord_emperor]

No, my PII is a beast and I'm proud of it.

 

[Ajay]

I will put benchmarking speeds in sig, but have never implied those are my daily driver numbers.

5960X - 4.75Ghz - daily is 4.5Ghz
3930K - 5.1Ghz - daily is 4.6Ghz
X5670 - 4.9Ghz - daily was anywhere from 4.44 to 4.68 depending upon mood.

see, now that's dishonest to me

I do the same thing as YBS1. I don't think it's dishonest, because there is no forum rules stating that posted overclocks must "day to day" values. But, I'll change it to 4GHz so you can sleep easier.