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Do you always run your GPU/'s overclocked?

Last time I overclocked was when I was running a PowerColor Radeon 9800 128MB DDR card at Pro stock speeds, and the AMD Athlon XP 1800+ 1533MHz JIUHB DLT3C @ 2506MHz with a Thermalright SLK800U + 92mm Papst 2500rpm fan.

I have never manually OC'ed since.
 
Always overclocked, but with lower clocks than benching and lower voltages than stock.
my 7950s are always on 1000/1250 when booting on windows (with lower voltage than stock), running games I usually have 3 profiles: 1000/1250 - 1000/1375 - 1100/1500

Benching I use something around 1180/1700.
 
Yep, i have a 24/7 clock profile in Afterburner as default for my GTX690 which is 1006/1702(6808) basically to get GTX680 stock clock with higher boost and memory.
 
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I normally have my 680s at stock. I have OC'd in the past (unsuccessfully) and will probably do so again in the future, but at 2560x1440 there is nothing which really benefits from an OC on my rig apart from BF3. When I do bother to get a stable OC again, I will probably only ever use it for the more demanding titles.
 
Well l use to overclock anything that moved but at the moo, my toxic 6950@6970 still pays any recent game's l'v bought just fine. But it's good to know it will run at least 950/1350 with just altering the Power Control setting if l need it.

My 470 was a cracking overclocker.
 
Quite suprised at the outcome so far, with many people not keeping their overclocks, I myself keep my overclocked gpu 24/7, with the gpu throttling itself when not it use - such as web browsing etc and then beef itself up for gaming use, maybe its because I only have a moderate overclock with my card on stock voltages, if I had to use additional Voltage Id be a bit more careful with when I use o.k.

Additionally, because I use a high res. Monitor and only run a single gpu, the extra power from my overclock is noticable, perhaps instead of the idea of using an amd vs nvidia overclock poll we should try a 1080p vs high res and see what that outcome would be :-)
 
I have 2 overclock profiles on my 780, 1 for everything and 1 for benchmarks. So yes I do have it overclocked all the time, the temps and fan speed remain the same so I see no harm in leaving it like it.

As mentioned earlier the card takes what it needs so all the time I am not in a game it's massively underclocked anyway, even with my oc profile active.
 
I didn't use to. But this 7950, it just seemed wrong to leave it at stock :p. Cranked it up 1150/1400 at the moment, its probably good for more but I havent tried nothing I'm even playing is stressing it out too much, still nice to have the extra boost on hand if/when required!
 
with 2 670s under water and being volt locked anyway I just keep mine overclocked, I figured as theres no extra voltage going through them and under 60c fully loaded im safe
 
Yes, I always run everything overclocked

I will tend to play about quite a bit to find the maximum my cards will do for a benchmark run and then knock 25-50mhz off both GPU and memory and use that as an every day setup so that I know it will be rock stable

e.g. I know my cards will do 1202 with voltage bump, but I tend to leave that off and just run 1189 and +250 on memory (6500?)
 
I never overclock GPU's but I always overclock CPU's. I find that when I overclock a GPU I become paranoid when I see any graphical glitches and I think they are caused by the overclock.
 
Depends on the game. I used to always run them o/cd when I played bf3 but I got bored of that game fast.

Most games these days seem to be utter guff so there's not much point buying them, let alone overclocking my gpus.
 
Out of the 16 graphics cards I've owned since around 1998, my last 6 cards have always been overclocked. First card I really overclocked was an Asus 5850 1GB.

I will be overclocking my GTX 780 once it gets here...
 
Overclocked my 470s when I had them.
I don't find I need my 670s overclocked so I keep them stock.

I even go as far as keeping SLI disabled unless I need it for a more demanding game.
 
About half my GPUs I've ran overclocked from day 1 until they were retired, the other half I've only run overclocks for benchmarking or games that really needed it, mostly only overclocked them to prolong their useful life once they were getting long in the tooth - for some like the 470s where they do ~40% overclocks that actually gets quite a lot of extra useful mileage out of them.
 
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