Overclocking is like a Gt turbo car with no race track ?

Overclocking has a direct correlation of your e-penis size. That is the only reason we all spend so much on cooling for a decent overclock.
 
I like to ensure my machine is set up to get the most out of it.

Considering a buddy of mine was running a stock Q6600 and the motherboard had set his vcore to 1.38v at a stock speed! Seriously too high volts for the clock!

Anyway, my 5 year old E6600 is running at 1.375v @ 3.6ghz and has been for most of it's life, near enough free power that makes all the difference and you have the peace of mind that you know its been stress tested to be working correctly.

So, it's more of a nerdy requirement to fiddle with the settings!
 
Overclock for free performance, not often you get much for free theese days tbh. Means i can run my games with that bit more detail/frames per second.
 
It depends.

If you buy the exteme edition cpu for twice the cost of the normal ones, buy watercooling and clock it to death then buy 4 graphics cards it is probably a waste of time other than benchmarks unless you must play Crysis on 3x 30" monitors at 16x AA

If you bought a normal computer, clocked it, waited 24 months and bought another it would be more performance overall. Just because technology moves so fast.

If you are spending more on cooling than it costs for the next CPU/GFX card up then it is probably a waste of money also. but then some peoplethink it is worth it for the quietness.

I tend to buy the top GFX card, standard CPU and clock the CPU a lot and the GFX card a bit.

My GFX card is getting a bit old now but until the next gen of consoles come out or some uber game I am saving money. trying to save a deposit on a house.
 
bonehead666 said:
When will i be able to buy a 5Ghz cpu off the shelf ?
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Probably never? Parallelism > Clock speeds. AMD are allegedly planning on 10 core desktop CPUs for 2012, I've not doubt Intel are well into developing their own too.

Expect to see 16 core desktop CPUs before you see retail chips weighing in 5GHz stock, technology has pretty much already pushed the limit of clock speeds and the only way to reduce heat output significantly enough to reach stable 5GHz speeds is to get down to die sizes a great deal smaller than is currently possible. Bearing in mind Intel are working on 22nm SOI (which is still not small enough to reach 5GHz without some kind of ultra-enthusiast cooling) and probably are more interested in their new 3D transistor gate technologies, that will be a long while coming.
 
Theophany said:
Probably never? Parallelism > Clock speeds. AMD are allegedly planning on 10 core desktop CPUs for 2012, I've not doubt Intel are well into developing their own too.

Expect to see 16 core desktop CPUs before you see retail chips weighing in 5GHz stock, technology has pretty much already pushed the limit of clock speeds and the only way to reduce heat output significantly enough to reach stable 5GHz speeds is to get down to die sizes a great deal smaller than is currently possible. Bearing in mind Intel are working on 22nm SOI (which is still not small enough to reach 5GHz without some kind of ultra-enthusiast cooling) and probably are more interested in their new 3D transistor gate technologies, that will be a long while coming.
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Tbf you can get 5ghz out of a sandy ridge chip with a 30 quid cooler :)

Oh and whoever posted "because I can", this should be the motto of the forums! The amount of times people ask why you spend so much on pcs, beggars belief!
 
Q9550 at stock speed doesn't really cut it for GTX470 SLI - yes I do use the speed, 120Hz panel so I want as close to or preferably over 120fps as much as possible.
 
Agreed, at stock my i7 doesnt cut it with sli either. Have the cpu clocked at 4.2ghz at the minute, (just wanted to see if the cpu/i could do it). But may knock it back to 4ghz. Id love a 120Hz 24" monitor as my rather old benq fp241w is a bit of a weak link.
 
Can i just ask how do you guys know that your processors can't cut it with regards to the GPU?
I'm just curious how you would test for this to see if your processor needs an upgrade/overclock to get the most out of your graphics cards.
 
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