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Poll: Is Overclocking Relevant?

Is overclocking relevant?

  • Yes, its important to run my PC as fast as I can

    Votes: 194 36.5%

  • No, Noise ,heat and energy saving is more important

    Votes: 75 14.1%

  • A *balance* of the above to suit my personal needs

    Votes: 262 49.3%
  • Total voters
    531

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Seems a few poeple are arguing that overclocking PC hardware is now less relevant to people and people are no longer interested in RAW speed


Is overclocking relevant?

1:Yes, its important to run my PC as fast as I can.

2:No, Noise ,heat and energy saving is more important.

3:A *balance* of the above to suit my personal needs

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Just what I thought.

The majority who work hard and play hard,with the skills, want the fastest PC they can

muster.

Phew! Its good that companies are looking into shrinking fabrication and having cooler less power hungry hardware and all that.

Just means we can get higher clocks with less heat and noise and more performance

out of our hardware.Plus we don't have to get massive PSU's


For a minute...I thought I was in a different forum...Like a " I love to Frag but I don't

want to hurt the earth" :D

Glad the overclocking vibe still lives.

Its the human need for speed.

Embrace it

Easy :)


P.S The EDIT in my last part of the poll- A *balance* of the above to suit my personal needs.

This is too vague

My windows home server is underclocked using 45nm tech and draws very little watts. Reason being? its on 24/7 streaming media to my PS3 in my cinema room when i want.

The main Gaming/editing/photoshop/studio pc is a different beast....raw power is what counts thats why I overclock.
 
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Big.Wayne said:
Cheers JohnnyG, Chelsea for the win! :p

Voted #3

A *balance* of the above to suit my personal needs

Once an Overclocker, always an Overclocker but these chips have become so flippin powerful now that outside of batch-encodes and heavy-duty processing work like Folding@Home I cannot tell the difference in actual day to day use between a mild overclocked/tweaked system and one that is at the absolute edge of stability!
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I can

The last really useful overclock I did for gaming was probably 2003 when I first played Far-Cry on a socket 478 Intel® Pentium® 2.8GHz (northwood) and a Radeon 9800 Pro @ 1024x768, some of the levels got well choppy so got the chip overclocked to 3.5GHz and bumped the GPU Core/Mem MHz and that made a really big difference!
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Oh really, Mine was clocking a 6400 from base to 3.8ghz

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Wayne you're talking pap :p
 
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Big.Wayne said:
Underclocked eh, I still haven;t had the heart to do that, it's almost against the old spirit of the OverClocker
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What I would do...is before you pimp energy saving and £'s saving etc.. you actually have a basis of arguement.

The mere fact you haven't underclocked shows the banal attack of your thought process.

Its easy

PC's that are on all the time = underclocked near silent home server

Everything else raw speed
 
nikebee said:
That said, your setup will still be using fans to cool the rad, and would surely make just as much noise as an air cooled setup.
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No m8 they can run at 5v which is silent.

You could in theory hit a higher OC on a triple rad cooling just the CPU compared to an air cooler; but with three fans (whether rated silent or not) will still be making noise.
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Water is quiet..thats why we do it

By the way, your first screenshot that you uploaded is stupendously large too... it's making my little Netbook cry :p
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It worked 2 yrs ago.... ;)
 
nikebee said:
Aye well my point is still valid, without me going to water (although I admit I do want to dabble with the Corsair H50 as another entry back into water cooling again) I'm option 3.

I run air cooling in my main rig, with the fans slow/quiet as possible with as much OC as I can get away with before feeling the need to ramp up the speed on them.
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Just get good.

H50 is for noobs

So, in essence i get your point...somehow:cool:

BTW Corsair H50 is not true watercooling

Its a fancy cpu cooler for noobs
 
billysielu said:
most important is component lifespan, i dont want to replace my gear too often, it's expensive.
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Eh?

Do you actually have any clue?

I think this thread should be closed at the request of me.

I have overclocked for years.And have never killed a cpu,mobo,GFX card or anything else.


Your statement is Phallusy.

The more I read this thread the more I can see how people are confused or misguided about the art of overclocking.

It gets my goat that people with H50 think they are watercooling when in fact it offers the performance of top end air.

then we hear


"I don't overclock as I can't afford the electricty cost."

"I don't overclock because why do I need more speed"

"I don't overclock as my PC is fast enough already"

"I don't overclock as I will kill my computer"

Maybe I should have worded my poll differently


Overclocking, and I mean maxing out a chip, can be done silently. My water loop and countless others is testament to this.

Option 3 A *balance* of the above to suit my personal needs is too vague so this thread should be closed.

Reason being.

A *balance* of the above to suit my personal needs means what exactly?

It is to ambiguous...

Needs to some is they don't know how to max out the chip

Needs to some is they don't know how to build a silent watercooled rig

Needs to some is they don't know the true fact about overclocking and think they will kill their hardware if they push to much...so they balance

Enthusiast's will understand where I am coming from

MODS please close thread - easy:)
 
Again more mis-truths surface.

bifday2k said:
Im guessing my water would be classed as noob too, even though i had to physically put it all together (swiftech H20-120).
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You see I have run the swiftech Apex watercooling kit and its cooled every single one of my chips with ease.

Overclocked Q6600's countless C2D's so again top end watercooling is not needed.

The chips and mobo's maxed out before the Kit was unable to cool them.

So don't be so defensive. :p


The H50 though is not watercooling its top end air. It can try to be but it just does not offer the perfromance.

The swiftech kits are real watercooling and custom kits
 
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JonJ678 said:
Sure, perhaps I should have said referring to the normal arrangement of radiators and blocks as "liquid cooling" strikes me as pretentious as well and annoys me just as much.



If watercooling is cooling things with water as well as air, sensibly, then the H50 qualifies. However computer watercooling has a long history of outperforming air cooling and the H50 doesn't. I suspect you follow this objection really, it's an irritating association to draw as the H50 fails to do the main thing watercooling is required to, i.e. beat air.

If a home plumbed loop leaks, it's almost always user error. Sometimes blocks leak, like the one I broke. However someone who has bothered putting a loop together is likely to know how to deal with this, someone who bought a H50 off the shelf is less likely to. A few people on here have had to return them for leaking, so the two year warranty is unsurprisingly fallible. I don't follow the reasoning which puts the H50 as safer.


I can't tell what you're voiding. The main issue with the H50 is small radiator surface area. A custom loop with the same crap radiator, weak pump and cheap block will perform the same as the H50 and I'll have just the same contempt for it as it performs no better than air.

Yes. However some people like to be able to strip a system down and fix bits, others don't want the hassle and would rather replace it when it dies.

My annoyance is that watercooling, in my definition, has to cool better than air otherwise you're introducing risk with no benefit. The H50 doesn't cool better than air, so I consider it undeserving of association with the superior approach.
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Agree 100%
 
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