Overclocking - Hobby or OCD?

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I recently purchased a new graphics card primarily to improve the experience of playing Squad Greenlight. Out of the box i tested the game and saw great improvements. Then i started overclocking.
It is enjoyable getting more out of something and learning along the way but I have probably spent 10 hours plus this week messing around with drivers, apps, benchmarks, system restore, backups and reading forums. Squad time, about 20 minutes and that was just to test.

Anyone else feel like overclocking becomes more than just a hobby and turns into an obesession or even OCD? For the sake of a few fps it is a lot of messing around
 
I have a 6600k and a 980ti running it's default speeds and I don't feel the need overclock it just yet. People might think I'm silly for not overclocking it, but I haven't struggled in any games I've been playing so I don't feel the need to make the computer work harder and temps to be higher for no reason.

Once I start to struggle in games, I'll be overclocking.
 
That just makes me think you enjoy overclocking more than Squad Greenlight :)

Some people spend a lot of times on hobbies and like any hobby ya can get a bit carried away, if im trying to figure something out i wont wanna go to bed until ive sussed it, even when im working early the next day.

If its taking a long time to do it then your probably doing it right, i.e. making mistakes and learning from them, thats the most fun way of learning how to do something rather than just following a guide from start to finish then forgetting about it once youve achieved your overclock.
 
BluD said:
If its taking a long time to do it then your probably doing it right, i.e. making mistakes and learning from them, thats the most fun way of learning how to do something rather than just following a guide from start to finish then forgetting about it once youve achieved your overclock.
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Maybe its just an IT thing. As you say, making mistakes (hopefully in a test environment or with test objects!) learning then getting it right.


C64 said:
Overclocking these days is barely any messing around i find ?
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You must not be trying hard enough!
 
CPUs are pretty much bulletproof and I'm only using 1.25v for my overclock. It will be obsolete long before it conks out. Extra heat? Meh. I have a cheap 20 quid cooler and am in the mid 60s gaming. Whoopy doo.

I used realbench for testing and it found issues with using too few volts within minutes. All I've done is increased vcore, multiplier and set my uncore to 40x. No other settings/voltages have been touched. I've spent very little time on this.

I'm pretty sure installing GTA V and all patches took about 65 billion times longer. :p
 
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When I build a new pc the first thing I do after windows and everything is installed is overclock the cpu. The thing is it's just too easy these days and there is no challenge to it. Increase the multiplier, add some vcore and that's about it. I miss the old socket 775 style clocking. I haven't done a gpu since my old AMD 5850 which was a beast of a clocker. Every card I have had since is just not worth bothering with in comparison to that.
 
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pastymuncher said:
When I build a new pc the first thing I do after windows and everything is installed is overclock the cpu. The thing is it's just too easy these days and there is no challenge to it. Increase the multiplier, add some vcore and that's about it. I miss the old socket 775 style clocking. I haven't done a gpu since my old AMD 5850 which was a beast of a clocker. Every card I have had since is just not worth bothering with in comparison to that.
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I do miss the hands on side of overclocking, i remember when ya used to get mobos and gpus coming out with no voltage control so ya ended up with 2 or 3 volt mods on the mobo and a few on the gpu. The same with water blocks and heat syncs, there often wasnt any for a lot of the components you wanted to cool so ya just went down to the plumb center, bought some gear and made them your self, or cut up old heat syncs and botch summat together.

I wish it hadnt become so mainstream and popular, then it would probably still be a bit more fun.
 
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