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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
lol@ myself and gurusan falling into the MAX IT OUT catagory

i must say, whilst i do like thrashing my hardware, i do run my own rig on fairly standard settings

unless im putting a large batch of encoding on then it gets slammed at 4.4ghz to get it done quick

and it is quick, especially at the moment.

great post wayne, its good to see contributions like this.
easy, i think he hit the nail on the head in some respects.

i liked the original idea of this post but it has taken a bit of a turn in the wrong direction imho
 
rjkoneill said:
easy, i think he hit the nail on the head in some respects.

i liked the original idea of this post but it has taken a bit of a turn in the wrong direction imho
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rjkoneill ,Well the assuption is that people have a PC to do more than one thing.

Its not a hard concept to understand for me but others seem to be having problems with it.

I will be building a Studio Music PC.It will not be connected to the net and it will be running maybe two pieces of software.The PC is designed to be used for one purpose.

So It will be overclocked.

It will be very quiet.

I will not damage my hardware in anyway when I overclock it.

I can afford the tiny extra running cost's

The PC is not on 24/7 only when recording.

I want this computer to run extremely fast on a budget so I can poor more money into some quality microphones.Hence why I will be overclocking.

Running 128+ audio tracks with realtime filters and EQ and effects will run better and faster on a fast system.

Encoding these tracks down to stereo will be quicker a lot quicker.

I will notice the difference running from stock but it will save me money as I have not spent 1000's on the top end chips.

This saving offsets the extra electricty I might use when I bump the vcore up a few notches.

The PC will not be running a huge power hungry GFX card as this is not needed.So I could argue that this highly overclocked Music PC with its onboard GFX is actaully cheaper to run and better for the environment than a stock running gaming pc with a 5890 in it.:p

There are to many fake stories, Old wifes tales, and quite frankly BS in this thread from all walks of this forum community.

Anyone who runs a gaming PC and says they run it at stock for power saving reasons and heat is really talking out of their hoop when they go and stick a massive GFX in there. Never mind running SLI or XFire.

Talk about being hypocritical :p

I requested this thread that I started to be closed 2 pages ago.

I think the time as come for it to be closed.:cool:
 
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nice read big wayne,i however have gaming profiles all ready at the flick of the right mouse button,unless im gaming at run at default minmum power settings,YES if you have the hardware to oc then oc it and get even more value for your money:)
 
Th3D0n said:
A H50 is still water cooling hence the fact it uses water to cool
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still this point stands! no matter how good it is it still uses water to cool the cpu. At end of the day evey way of cooling has its purpose and the h50s is to be as good as top of the range air cooling by useing water yet still being cheep and easy to use!

dmpoole said:
Not so long ago I built a Q6600 system for a friend and we did a few tests with the main one being encoding an AVI into a DVD which took 8 minutes.
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How big was the file and what Quality was it since mine takes 17mins to do a 700Meg Avi to a good Quality dvd and my Q9400 @3.5 is a bit faster then a Q6600

And now for Big wayne!
all i have to say to you is...............
1. i agree with you a lot on this topic and if i need help with overclocking your the one id know can all ways help me out :)
2.(off topic) sct 775 witch we have argued about already and i still win!:p
3 you still need to go watch a real football team it will change your life (man utd);)

easyrider said:
Mobos and GFX cards are all designed for overclocking.
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Mobos maybe but i don't agree about GFX most of them are a b***h to overclock

dmpoole said:
Perhaps they are now but they didn't used to be.
I can remember shifting jumpers on a motherboard to get a 486DX100 up to 120 and I remember Overclockers drawing on chips with pencils.
Cyrix chips were famous because after a year you had to underclock them to work.
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i remember getting a 486 66Mhz up to 100Mhz and a intel pentium mx (i think that was what it was called:confused:) from 166 Mhz to 266Mhz ;)

P.S if theres any think you dont understand im sorry but iv had a LOT to drink:D


Hmmmmm guinness a real mans drink!
 
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Well, with tech these days, you don't really need to overclock, especially with things like Turbo mode from Intel and AMD releasing affordable 3GHz CPU's at stock, it reduces the need to overclock. My personal need is a 3GHz CPU, and i got one without the need to overclock at an affordable price, but say if i chose a 2.6GHz CPU with no fancy turbo mode, i would then overclock to meet my needs of 3GHz.

Basically, if i can afford a cpu already at 3GHz and no overclock, i'll buy it, but if i can't i will buy a cheaper CPU and overclock it to meet my needs.

I also like to fiddle with my CPU to see what it can get to as well.
 
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Balance for me.

I can run at 3ghz when browsing, word processing and have my radiator running passively and silence except for the small noise from the psu and hard drives seeking.

When gaming, it ramps up to 4.6Ghz and I have good enough cooling to acheive this and it doesn't matter about a bit of noise as either the z5500 are on or the headphones are.

I used to just aim for out and out performance but silence is just as important to me nowadays.

It's good to have that 4.6Ghz of quad goodness on tap when needed in a game which supports multi cores or encoding dvd's and I can't imagine needing more power for some time to come.

I suppose that if I hadn't managed to hit such a good overclock then I would be more tempted to upgrade sooner.
 
Greebo said:
Balance for me.

I can run at 3ghz when browsing, word processing and have my radiator running passively and silence except for the small noise from the psu and hard drives seeking.

When gaming, it ramps up to 4.6Ghz and I have good enough cooling to acheive this and it doesn't matter about a bit of noise as either the z5500 are on or the headphones are.

I used to just aim for out and out performance but silence is just as important to me nowadays.

It's good to have that 4.6Ghz of quad goodness on tap when needed in a game which supports multi cores or encoding dvd's and I can't imagine needing more power for some time to come.

I suppose that if I hadn't managed to hit such a good overclock then I would be more tempted to upgrade sooner.
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4.6Ghz!! Waw that is superb. Do you notice a big difference going from stock to that speed? Is cooling a big issue with it also? Ta
 
golwg said:
4.6Ghz!! Waw that is superb. Do you notice a big difference going from stock to that speed? Is cooling a big issue with it also? Ta
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You certainly notice it with encoding videos etc and certain mutli core supporting games which run smoother.

Certainly helped in setting some hwbot records but they were run even higher at 4.9Ghz.:eek:

As for cooling I have a nice case (TJ09) and certainly not the best watercooling setup as my double rad (which also cools my 5850 on a full ek block) is mediocre at best. The swiftech d5 (with aftermarker top) and XSPC Delta V3 CPU block are decent though.

However my 38mm san ace 120mm fans are some of the best at cooling radiators. ;)

And before people pass comment about cost, all my cpu watercooling stuff was sourced 2nd hand (5850 ek block bought new :().

Cpu block £20
Swiftech 25mm 240mm rad £20
Laing d5 £25
Aftermarket top £15 (waste of money tbh and made little difference to temps)
Swiftech mini res £9
7/16" tygon tube £10
San Ace fans x 2 £14

Total cpu cooling cost £113.

So quiet system when I need it to be and as fast I want at other times. Hence option 3 is a valid option in the poll IMO.
 
I find the maximum the chip will take and then find the sweet spot - the bit which requires either zero or very little vcore increase and leave it there. Currently I have the i5 750 (2.66) at 3.2GHz which is on default voltage (i.e very little and speedstep drops it down to 0.9v).
 
Just added my 2c and a bit of % to the Yellow Bar.

My QX9650 stays @ Stock (3Ghz) nearly all of the time, but may up it somewhat during a 4 core gaming session that needs a we bit more herz (Dirt2/Armed etc)
 
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