Practical Benefits of Overclocking

[Demonicon]

Originally posted by: Duvie

Originally posted by: Demonicon

Originally posted by: Duvie
http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview...atid=28&threadid=1531414&enterthread=y


Are some of these test practical enough for you??? The growth in almosty linear to speed increase...I can still drop back to 2.55ghz and run default vcore and have load temps of 46-47c and I would still show 30+% gains in performance....


"and risk of instability really worth it aside from bragging rights?"

If you know what you are doing and not a moron it shouldn't be an issue.....

I for one test stability and put it out there in front of you guys...I dont test on untested speeds just for sake of number. I got screenies that show my prime95 testing, my temps, my voltages, my scores....

I see alot of synthetic benchmarks there and no reasonable game scores (Read: Games that people actually play at reasonable resolutions). I'm not going to say that overclocking doesn't provide real world results. It certainly does. But for the average gamer it isn't going to make any difference whatsoever. Sure it's nice to get a flashy 3dmark score, but it doesn't mean much more than that.

Well the world doesn't revolve around games...does for some of you kids!!!!! I alos say in that thread I am not a big gamer and didn't test...

OPen your eyes!!! Go down in the thread and read where Jeff filled in those test for me...It shows good movement there as well...

Well the World doesn't revolve around you either. I saw the graphics card you had and just assumed you would use it for gaming. I'm not trying to invalidate your existence, i'm just pointing out the fact that for your AVERAGE GAMER (For clarification: Not you Duvie) it doesn't usually make a huge difference.

 

[Duvie]

Probaly for any one using lower then GF5 series or radeon 9500's...yes.....If the vid card is not a bottleeck like many of the new 6xxx series and ATI latest the cpu is the bottleneck once again at the low levels of 3000+...so a difference can be seen....

I also agree that 60fps versus 140fsp as lows in games wont mean a whole heck of a lot fro me cause they are both playable....


LOOK at Jeffs numbers....6xxx series so cpu is starting to become a bottleneck for most average systems of xp chips and under 3ghz p4's...

3500+ Winchester, MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum, 6800GT @ 400/1050, PC3500 RAM 2-3-3-7 1:1

----------------------------------------------------1.8 (200x9)------------------2.4 (218x11)-------------+33.3%


Doom 3 Timedemo-------------------------88.9---------------------------101.5---------------------+14%

CS:S Video Stress Test--------------------141.0-------------------------166.23---------------------+18%

HL2 HardwareOC Bench - Coast--------70.3---------------------------87.1-----------------------+24%

Far Cry Regulator (Ubi) --------------------66.23-------------------------80.87----------------------+22%

Far Cry Research (Ubi) --------------------117.6-------------------------140.71--------------------+20%

 

[WA261]

Yes, you noitce a differnce...a HUGE one with a nice OC.

 

[Quentin]

Mild overclocking doesn't require added expense. The A7N8X 2.0 in my signature has a stock XP2500+ AMD heat sink/fan (copper cored version).

Sometimes you overclock to balance out mistakes you made when buying the components - maybe to get the RAM and CPU FSB in sync. Your overall speed may not increase much but it's a smoother, better balanced configuration.

A multiplier of 12 times 166/333 FSB is better than 15x133/266 even though both give you 2GHz overall. 10x200/400 is better still.

 

[gvbjr]

It all comes down to cost versus benefit, in relationship to your objective. There are some scenarios mentioned that make good sense. The are a lot of scenarios that are just bs. If you can squeeze 20-30% more our of a system without having to sell the farm you might have something. To spend a lot of extra cash on a cool motherboard, fancy memory, outrageous cooling solutions...and walk away with a 10% gain in efficiency is totally ludicrous.