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Poll: Is Overclocking Relevant?

Is overclocking relevant?

  • Yes, its important to run my PC as fast as I can

    Votes: 194 36.5%

  • No, Noise ,heat and energy saving is more important

    Votes: 75 14.1%

  • A *balance* of the above to suit my personal needs

    Votes: 262 49.3%
  • Total voters
    531
3 - any other choice comes across as a bit retarded -- who really thinks i must squeeze every mhz out of my CPU ?? Surely just a few that like to bench.

If you are into quiet and energy saving you would just buy accordingly..

this whole poll comes across to me as ...
 
I haven't really done much since putting my V350b back to air, mainly because the time it takes to over clock the thing just isn't worth the few extra FPS in wow or tf2. (I only use it for gaming)

If I do end up doing it at some point it will be because I get an urge to because Im bored, rather than because I need to or must.

And I clicked a balance, as currently its not OC'ed due to me not bothering but pre upgrade and removal of custom water it was.

Maybe the sections should read.

I over clock on water and max out every component.

I over clock on air and max out within temperature boundaries as I'm on a limited budget, or don't think the extra cost is worth a few extra MHz to W/C.

I occasionally over clock here and there when I can be bothered.

Over clocking, doesn't that break stuff???? :eek:
 
Im guessing my water would be classed as noob too, even though i had to physically put it all together (swiftech H20-120).

I got that for £50 so less then the H50 costs new, and was my first step into water, oh wait i better not call it water as it did'nt cost me a fortune, and will be upgraded with better stuff shortly.

Like some have said they like to find a balance, some like to have there stuff running max all the time, each to there own when it comes to that one.

Myself for example, i allways love to find the max i can run my stuff at, because im curious, but i then choose upon an overclock that is best suited to me for 24/7 use.

My E8400 runs 24/7 @3.6ghz due to the fact i can have it at that speed, on the lowest vcore my mobo will allow, so in essense i get a free overclock, at under stock vcore.

But iv also pushed this cpu to its limit on the current setup (4.5ghz, memory limited), and if i really wanted to, i could run that 24/7, all be it with high temps, so would need to upgrade my rad.

I personally overclock not becuase i need to, stuff i do is fine on stock speeds, i overclock becuase
1: I can
2: I enjoy it

Same kinda reasons why i wanted to dabble in water cooling, all be it low end atm, becuase it was something new to learn, i don't need it, but keeps the mind active doing research and stuff.
 
easyrider said:
Is it?

PLease close this thread.

I wasn't to happy that a POLL I created was edited too..to massage certain audiences.:mad:
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Do you suffer a split personality disorder easyrider? :confused:

I'm geniunely curious because some of the time you are very helpful and concidered in your responses, yet in this thread you're just being a douche to be honest.

Nothing that Big Wayne responded with should have warrented the responses you gave. You engineered an argument out of absolutely nothing but a discussion. Something that you may want to look up the definition of.

Asking for the thread to be closed is childish as all you've done is attempt to argue with someone who was just discussing his opinions of your thread. Last time I checked this was the very purpose of a discussion board.

I'm hoping this thread isn't a reflection of your posting quality from now on, as if it is, I don't see you contributing anything worth while at all.
 
bifday2k touched on an interesting point which makes 3 more appealing to me.

If a current setup is air cooled, or low end water and can't cope with a huge overclock because of heat/noise... I'd imagine an awful lot would leave it at their last stable clock they were happy with. No reason to spend an arm and a leg on a new water cooling system if your happy with what you've got.
 
JonJ678 said:
I suspect because it performs as well as an air cooler (certain imaginative uses aside) which costs the same amount yet the H50 has produced a fanatical following who all seem thrilled to bits that they have a "liquid cooled computer".
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Say it as "liquid cooled CPU" and that's entirely correct.

JonJ678 said:
This antagonises/irritates those of us who have a more conventional water cooling system as there seems to be no reasoning with most of them.
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That's because the entire argument revolves around definitions, what defines watercooling.

Is it home made systems only because they were doing it first? If so, it's elitism only.

1) It's a heatsink that can leak - but has two years of guarantee that it won't. Home plumbed loops can leak all over components as well

2) The rad is inside the case blowing air into/out of the main compartment therefore no better than a heatsink - and a lot of custom loops are exactly the same. Void. Also if you put some effort in, the rad could be outside the case anyway.

3) Can't top up coolant - exaggerated issue. It's designed to minimise coolant loss because it's sealed for life. Home plumbing isn't using the same sealing methods or tubing. Hence, again, the guarantee that evaporation won't be a problem.

I'm seeing people becoming wound up because its similar enough that comparisons between custom and prebuilt have enough weight to bother them.

So for the same reason, arguments that custom loops are "real watercooling" can be seen as less than watertight (excuse the pun).

So like I said, why bother with the hate. There's nothing to win, just egos to defend :)
 
Again more mis-truths surface.

bifday2k said:
Im guessing my water would be classed as noob too, even though i had to physically put it all together (swiftech H20-120).
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You see I have run the swiftech Apex watercooling kit and its cooled every single one of my chips with ease.

Overclocked Q6600's countless C2D's so again top end watercooling is not needed.

The chips and mobo's maxed out before the Kit was unable to cool them.

So don't be so defensive. :p


The H50 though is not watercooling its top end air. It can try to be but it just does not offer the perfromance.

The swiftech kits are real watercooling and custom kits
 
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Lol was'nt being defensive, just well, actully it may have read like that, ahwell lol.

Yeh some of the kits are very good, well apart from the crappy swiftech tubing, and there an excellent route into the world of watercooling.

I wonder if i can overclock my Nokia N900, now that would be funny lmao, ok now im being silly.
 
Interesting thread.... started off well, but now it's turned to s***.

I chose option one in the poll, I really enjoy pushing things to the best of my ability, noise doesn't really bother me if I'm pushing for high clocks to run benchmarks, however for 24/7 usage, I do prefer my system to be quietish, but it's far from being silent.
 
A balance. I tend to pick a nice overclock that (hopefully) doesn't require any extra volts but still gives a good boost in speed, and is easy to obtain.

When I get a new CPU I don't want to spend hours tweaking for maximum clocks, I just want to get on with using the thing.
 
There is no simple answer for this thread. :)

General PC usage then a balance is ideal. For those using sff or htpc setups then a cool power efficient system is required. Its only high end and enthusiast that loves pure power.

So although and interesting question , each environment of computing has its own answer.

lol , I voted for option 1 :)

McT
 
It depends, if you have an i7 920 at 4.2ghz, it's a huge difference from stock. I got my 965BE to 3.8ghz but I wasn't happy with the voltages it needed to keep it stable, so I've put it back to stock and to be honest, I haven't noticed any difference, but it was only roughly a 11-12% increase after all. I was also told that it meant instead of running at 140w it was nearing 200w, no idea how to work that out but it's too much for my liking. :P

If I had an i7 or C2Q then I'd have it overclocked for daily use, but with AMD it seems kinda pointless when at the limit it's only 11-12% up on stock.
 
depends what mood im in. generally, no, im in for the low consumption and silent running these days - i no longer need to keep up with the Jones' given my current hardware is powerful enough to do everything i need it to.
 
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