Any point?

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hi, im new

I have the same setup as dan7827 i7 950 + gigabyte ud3r + Corsair 6GB (3x2GB) DDR3 1600.

I have been screwing about with computers since my IBM XT but never clocked a machine in my life.

My question is this, I now use my machine for quite high intense drive scanning. So far its rapid fast and miles better than my last effort.

Would going from 3.06ghz to 4 ghz make any real world difference provided I could cool it properly.

Doing it just for the sake of it does not interest me in the slightest but if it would make my job any faster then im all for it?

Benchmarks are fine but in reality would it make much difference?

thanks

andy
 
Best bet might be to suck it and see if you can't find any benchmarks for that specific task. What cooler do you have? If it's half decent you ought to be able to get some overclock for a short while and see how your task scales with overclock. If it's very CPU intensive above all else you'll see a gain proportional to the overclock. But sounds to me something like disk scanning may be limited by the I/O system, even the disk being scanned itself. Can you find any information from the writers of the program you use? Maybe send them an email - they should know how it scales with CPU GHz.

Welcome to the forum by the way :)
 
nice one mate, thanks for your reply. I was going to go with an H70, not because i need it but mainly because it looks friggin cool :)

I've got a H50 and I love it's compactness and elegance. Its performance can be matched by top end air coolers, and they may even be slightly quieter, but I prefer having the H50 there than a monstrosity of a giant heatsink. A good cooler is a good thing to have in any system, so you could go ahead anyway if you really want it, and as above suck it and see with the overclock.
 
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