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Effects of Overclocking on CPU usage?

HaMMuS

HaMMuS

HaMMuS

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I apologise if this is the wrong forum to ask this, but I have a couple of questions for all you CPU guru's out there.

If I have a CPU at stock, and perform some task on it that has 60% CPU usage, if I overclock it by 50% and perform the same task again will my CPU usage be lower?

Also how does windows gauge how much CPU is being used? Does it depend on the number of registers or pipelines in use or is it simpler than that?

Mikey
 
benwoodcock said:
I think it will be the same amount of usage but for less time, die to the mature of CPUs.
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In some cases I would have thought this might be the case, but what about say for H.264 decoding whilst watching a movie? Wouldn't it only decode the move as fast as you watch it?
 
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