• Competitor rules

    Please remember that any mention of competitors, hinting at competitors or offering to provide details of competitors will result in an account suspension. The full rules can be found under the 'Terms and Rules' link in the bottom right corner of your screen. Just don't mention competitors in any way, shape or form and you'll be OK.

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
I voted 3 and it's always a balance.

I will always strive for the fastest hardware I can have, whether it's by overclocking it further or purchasing newer/faster hardware.

On the opposite side of the argument, I will always strive to make my machine as quiet as possible and would gladly sacrifice speed for peace and quiet.

If performance is becoming a major issue with a game, and it's a game I really want to play/enjoy, then I'll sacrifice that quietness for raw power and noise.

More often than not, I will have my machine running slower than it's fastest OC is capable of to keep heat/noise down.
 
easyrider said:
Thats funny


As I will use water and a rad and max my hardware in nr silence
Click to expand...

Why is that funny?

I generally prefer air cooling over watercooling after purchasing defective all in one kit a year or so ago and have it leaking over my rig.

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.

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.

By the way, your first screenshot that you uploaded is stupendously large too... it's making my little Netbook cry :p
 
Of Topic:

easyrider said:
800x600
Click to expand...
The image you posted is 1024x839 :confused:

Most of my images are normally 750 pixel wide if I can help it, bit busy tonight sorry!


easyrider said:
Again you fail to impress
Click to expand...
I'm not trying to impress? :confused:

easyrider said:
no thought to Dell mini users etc...?
Click to expand...
I didn't think a lot of overclockers.co.uk forum users sat at home surfing the forums on a DELL mini! . . .sorry! :p

easyrider said:
No personal insults!! Big Kev
Click to expand...
Oh lovely! . . .your in a good mood as usual, you really gotta work on your debating skills, you always seen to get so huffy if you don't understand something or someone see's things in a different way to you!

I guess perhaps your not being given the information in a way that you can relate to/understand . . that must be it! :cool:
 
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.
Click to expand...

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.
Click to expand...

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
Click to expand...


It worked 2 yrs ago.... ;)
 
easyrider said:
No m8 they can run at 5v which is silent.

Water is quiet..thats why we do it
Click to expand...

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.

Big.Wayne said:
it's 2am Friday night?

What are you doing in bed? :D
Click to expand...


Haha! It's not by choice mate, been off work all week sick...

Believe me it's not by choice! I'm normally far too drunk to even find my flat, let alone use a computer at 2am on a Friday!! As we all should be of course :)
 
Last edited:
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.
Click to expand...

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
 
I know what you mean about the H50, it's not "true" water cooling since it's entirely self contained, you don't need to fill it up, never need to check it, never need to test it or even put it together.

It's essentially a hybrid liquid/air cooler.
 
Why would you NOT overclock?

Increased noise is the only thing I would care about, but my comp isn't noisy. :confused:

Couldn't care less how hot it runs as long as its stable.
 
mmj_uk said:
It is but not at the detriment of stability.
Click to expand...

This is critical. I'll run it as fast as I reasonably can, as long as it doesn't get calculations wrong. No interest whatsoever in processor or ram which can't get its numbers right however little time it takes to give me the wrong answer. I'm quite cowardly with voltages though.

I don't tend to overclock laptops if I can help it, as I want the battery life. This probably counts as energy saving.
 
I went for the balance option.
Right now, nothing is clocked in my PC, it's still relatively fast at stock so I haven't felt the need.
If I see it start to struggle at all, I'll experiment with some mild clocking on th GPU and will test how far I can push CPU.

Older hardware or mid-range, cooler running graphics cards. I'll always tend to clock them a bit just to see how far they'll go. Often surprised what you can get out of them. :D

Understand the need people have for silent PC's and lower power useage. Also see the appeal for people running things clocked to the bleeding edge. :)
It's all good.
 
Ziggy said:
Why would you NOT overclock?
Click to expand...

I suspect ten possible answers you could get from people to that question would be

  1. Because you didn't know how
  2. Because the computer was *more* than fast enough at stock
  3. Because the computer was *more* than fast enough with a mild overclock
  4. Because your feared the boogeyman who eats overclocked hardware
  5. Because the extra power used meant the electric bill increased in price £££
  6. Because the computer overclocked itself according to load & Thread count
  7. Because without spending extra money on improved cooling it was not possible
  8. Because even with improved cooling it still meant the PC was too noisy

I can also make a list of good reasons to run a mild overclock and extreme overclocking!

Remember to become a good debater you absolutely have to be able to argue a point from all sides :)

Ziggy said:
Increased noise is the only thing I would care about, but my comp isn't noisy. :confused:
Click to expand...
Noise and how loud a PC is is entirely subjective . . .what is quiet to you will be noisy to someone else

Back in the day serious overclockers had to use sic 80mm YS-Tech fans and I tell ya those buggers were *NOISY* :eek:

fast forward to the present day and it's not that hard to have a fairly quiet PC, even when overclocked when spending a bit of extra cash on a good air-cooled heatsink and some quiet 120mm fans . . .

Ziggy said:
Couldn't care less how hot it runs as long as its stable.
Click to expand...
see option #4 :p

The Boogey man has a sweet-tooth for ram!
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom