Do You OC All The Time?

[Ice Rich]

Hi all,

Was just wondering, if you run your overclock all the time?

For me, I have 3 BIOS profiles:

Stock
Overclock
Overclock Extreme

I always run my system on the overclock settings. Ive been thinking lately though that I might be putting unneeded strain on my computer, would it be best to run at stock and only use the overclocked settings when I need to? I.e games, benchmarking?

How many of you always run overclocked PC's?

Edit: Do you also put you V.cards on min stettings when yor not gameing etc?

Thanks

 

[Ice Rich]

CPU & Mem are OC 24/7, graphics i've set to run in highly underclocked mode in 2D then ramps up to OC settings in 3D.

Can you give me an example how you did this please?

I ued ati tools to do this once and underclocked everthing to the minimum, but when I set to an overclocked settings for gaming (or even back to stock), I would get artifacts?

 

[Ice Rich]

Always run my overclock to the max. No need to run it at the stock speed since it means there's a lot of extra performance going to waste.

But for some of us are stock systems are more then powerful for carrying out are everday tasks, unless we game or something where we need the extra power and then run are overclocked settings.

 

[Ice Rich]

Just as you've said using ATi Tool, not had a problem with it.

I've got 2D set all as low as possible, then the 3D (low) and 3D (high) set as my max OC's.

Works a treat

Whenever I set back to stock though I get artifacts?

There is not a problem with my card as I can run quite a high overclock.