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Overclocking is dying, Silicon Lottery announces shutdown

Gerard said:
Same here, was a different ballgame when you just had to play around with voltages, now theres so many options to prat about with (any one of which could be the cause of instability) it's just tedious.
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Yeah, it is a lot of messing around, although I do enjoy learning the nuances of hardware. Anyway, I had some time to kill recently and after about 3 hours of fiddling I had barely had a 10% gain.
 
jigger said:
Yeah, it is a lot of messing around, although I do enjoy learning the nuances of hardware. Anyway, I had some time to kill recently and after about 3 hours of fiddling I had barely had a 10% gain.
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Which likely would be gained by the autoboost function, overclocking these days is nothing but a time vampire.
 
Companies just don't want to let people get any free extra performance nowadays so pre overclock the chips and charge a premium for it instead.
 
Everything is on such a small process now the tolerance before you hit instabilities is much tighter. It’s more a case of fine tuning than overclocking today.
 
I was trying to remember the mobile cpu that was a popular desktop overclocker in the early to mid 2000s. Anyone remember?
 
I don’t agree. I have always been a fan of undervolting while getting the highest clocks. The silicon lottery makes a massive difference to success. I think it’s more relevant now than it’s ever been. My 5900X runs a -30 CO and a negative offset with a maximum boost offset. Minimum power with near maximum performance. The silicon lottery allowed me to do this.
 
sgoaty said:
I was trying to remember the mobile cpu that was a popular desktop overclocker in the early to mid 2000s. Anyone remember?
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There were a few that spring to mind over the years from the K6-2+and K6-III+, the Athlon XP-M, the socket 479 Pentium-M and Core Solo/Core Duo/Centrino parts, all of these were good clockers, mainly due to them being low-voltage parts based on silicon that could run much higher voltages.

I've had some gems over the years, probably my favorite was my Pentium Dual-Core E2140, that thing was a clocking monster, 1.6GHz base clock that would run up to 3.4GHz overclocked.

I also miss the days where I'd strap my Vapochill XE to a P4 1.8A northwood and clock the nuts off it.
 
paradigm said:
I've had some gems over the years, probably my favorite was my Pentium Dual-Core E2140, that thing was a clocking monster, 1.6GHz base clock that would run up to 3.4GHz overclocked.
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I had one of those, it was rock solid at 3.6Ghz which seemed to be very common for that series of cpu's as I had a E2160 and a E2180 that also topped out at that speed. I had my first 4.5Ghz cpu on socket 775, a E8500 back in 2008. Those were the days.

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