Cache Overclocking, Is It Really Needed ?

Dicehunter · 21 Oct 2014 at 13:20

So I've asked many people this question and the only answer I ever seem to get is either "Yes" or "You should overclock your cache" which both aren't helpful at all.

Now upon a little research I've found that overclocking the CPU cache improves things like unzipping by 1 or 2 seconds but not much else.

Can someone please shed some light on this ?

Make · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:45

You answered your own questions.

Helps cinebench, benchmarks, and long unzipping.

Not in games by any noticeable amount.

pastymuncher · 21 Oct 2014 at 18:49

It's free so why not do it? I can run mine at 1:1 with the core up to 4.5Ghz. Does it make it any faster? I really don't know but I have it clocked because I can.

Dicehunter · 21 Oct 2014 at 19:14

Cooleo thanks guys

Would it make much of a difference to CPU temps having the cache voltage low ?

setter · 21 Oct 2014 at 19:27

Ive seen decent gains in some benchmarks too, but no difference in gaming. Tend to leave it at stock theese days.

Dicehunter · 21 Oct 2014 at 22:33

setter said:
I've seen decent gains in some benchmarks too, but no difference in gaming. Tend to leave it at stock these days.

I just tried a few game tests and I couldn't see any difference with fraps, Maybe 1-2 fps but that could be margin of error.