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Overclocking is dying, Silicon Lottery announces shutdown

LePhuronn said:
It's 2021. I don't understand why people still want to strap 2kg of metal to a fiberglass board 1.6mm thick to cool their CPU.
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What's the current date got to do with it? People could have been saying that in the 90s for example.

People like to push the limit, that's why we have the Olympics for example. Pushing passed things.
 
Grim5 said:
What is still surprising to me is that water cooling is still making a killing, despite lowering temps on cpu and gpu having negligible effects on performance in 2021, due to how "cool" they look water cooling parts and AIOs are still making a killing as people buy them just to look cool
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Water cooling is still about functionality, to me at least. I just upgraded my main PC which sits in the dining room and had 3x 1080ti's water-cooled in a custom loop (mining crypto 99%, gaming 1% of the time) since late '17, they've payed for themselves about 8 times over and offset against the Gas bill for heating downstairs too (they kick out about 800w of heat 24/7). Just replaced them with 3090 & 3080's just in time for winter. Without water cooling it would sound like a Jumbo Jet in the dining room, It's silent.. Oh and its pretty too :D
 
On one hand it is giving us a chance to get a better chip but on the other hand the manufacturers are doing the overclocking for us by binning the chips in order to gain profit. So we are left with a choice to squeeze the last bit or not to bother.
 
I miss the days where a blob of solder gained you speed as well. Was it the Duron that you could unlock by bridging a couple of pads on the CPU.
 
Grim5 said:
Back in the days a solder mod on the gpu could mean an extra 30% performance
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Maybe it's why were not interested in signs digit results. Not worth it.
I remember doubling the speed of one CPU I had previously.
Too many extra settings now as well that get disturbed if you manually OC.
 
A lot of fun was taken out when it all changed from buy a lower grade CPU to match a higher one via overclocking to buy the most expensive model to get slightly more performance.

P3 Coppermine on 440BX chipset were the best days
 
Toasty said:
A lot of fun was taken out when it all changed from buy a lower grade CPU to match a higher one via overclocking to buy the most expensive model to get slightly more performance.

P3 Coppermine on 440BX chipset were the best days
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Dual malay celerons on a ABIT PB6 board. Good times.
 
I guess overclocking is dead because chip manufacturers want to squeeze every last drop of power without instability because margins between competition are small as well as Moore's Law.
 
Toasty said:
A lot of fun was taken out when it all changed from buy a lower grade CPU to match a higher one via overclocking to buy the most expensive model to get slightly more performance.

P3 Coppermine on 440BX chipset were the best days
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Yep you can say that again use to be able save a lot of money in those days and have a lot of fun playing around with hardware.
 
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