You dont need it, but its nice to have it, a few years ago i was quite happy to run a system at stock, tbh i was scared of overclocking. Took my first baby steps with a graphics card oc, soon got the bug, cpu overclocking followed pretty quickly after that, im certainly no expert at it but ive had some great results on the 4 intel cpu's ive owned.
Overclocking-why and do I need it?
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More like cigarettes.
The other way of looking at is that you do not need to overclock it today. An i7 CPU and a 5870 GPU will probably be fast enough for anything you need today.
At some point, the technology will move on and it will become a little slow at some tasks. At that point, you can always overclock it to gain a free speed boost rather than buying new hardware.
On the other hand, you are asking the question of "Should I overclock" on an overclocking forum so I guess you are not going to get many people saying "no"
At some point, the technology will move on and it will become a little slow at some tasks. At that point, you can always overclock it to gain a free speed boost rather than buying new hardware.
On the other hand, you are asking the question of "Should I overclock" on an overclocking forum so I guess you are not going to get many people saying "no"
And the ones that do say no, they get banned rather quickly.you are not going to get many people saying "no"
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Are you kidding me? More like drugs.
I dont need a Range Rover either but I want one
all good sound advice as usual on here, thanks fellas, well it looks like I'll be joining the overclocked fast as #### PC brigade.........and why not.....your a long time dead
on that happy note I'll get my plastic out and do some damage
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Some really useful info there. I don't think you need to overclock but its to get the very most of your hardware. I did my very first overclock a few months ago not because I needed the extra power but to see if I could. Intel core i7 920 3.6ghz at stock voltage. Didn't push it any further as I didn't need to, but maybe when I need the power ill push to 4.