Overclock toggle?

badbiddy

badbiddy

badbiddy

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Forgive my noobness.

I'm currently on Lynnfield which serves it's purpose for gaming, but it's time to upgrade.

I was planning to wait for Skylake and take a look at that, but in reality I wouldn't mind settling for Haswell-E as I've started doing a bit of video editing so the extra cores would be nice. Plus the premium-ness of X99 is appealing I suppose.

Is there a way to have a toggle switch for overclock? i.e. Have a 5820k running at base clock speed or even underclocked so that I can run in near silence. But then have a button (hardware or software) that enabled the overclock so that when doing rendering tasks or playing new games I can benefit from the performance available??

Is this possible with certain boards?

TIA
 
Technically yes by using software overclocking applications while in windows,but this is always not advised as it doesnt result optimal OC's,usually leading to excessive voltages and temperatures.

When you apply an OC you can still enable all power saving features,so the cpu will still downclock at idle.Would be no real need to only enable an OC for certain tasks.Just make sure you get a quality cooler like the DH-15 and it will be quiet untill put under high loads and run your OC 24/7
 
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