Pre OC'd Bundle or not

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Is the extra ££ worth it for pre overclocked bundles from ocuk ?
ive managed to OC my current spec and the spec before with no real issues.
Im unsure if the extra is worth it.
Is i7 much harder to configure an overclock or not ?
what are your thoughts on the OC'd bundles and buying the items individually and having a go yourself ?
 
there seems to be a couple of grumblings about the forums about these, ie.
occasionally they decide to not play ball, and changing settings/flashing bios vioding warranty.

i would personally prefer to do it myself, but thats me. i like to fiddle...
 
If doing it yourself you learn and for most of us get pleasure from doing it, its also abit cheaper too, as ur not having to pay for someones time.

Now that being said, the upside to the pre overclocked bundles are that you get given a bios profile that is/should be 100% stable.

So you could try to overclock more, knowing that you have a fully working setting that you can go back to, i guess best way to put it is, is the extra worth it for peice of mind, thats how i see it.
 
Also, with the overclocked bundles you can get support help from ocuk, saying that though, you sem to have oc'd your current rig pretty well. An i7 isnt much harder to clock than an s775 setup, id suggest having a read at a few guides on i7 clocking to give you an idea on whats involved.
 
You save yourself coin, but you have to install the RAM and CPU, and you have to do some tweaking in the BIOS. You would have to test it's stability.

On the other hand they install the CPU and RAM and it's tested so you know what you are getting will at least work. But you will probably still have to do some tweaking in the BIOS. And test it as said before.

Your choice. :) I would say "or not".
 
Depends on time for me, I used to do it all myself but life takes over sometimes. I've bought one system and bundle from OCUK which I'm pleased with. I'm just testing another bundle from them now.

Regards
Fred
 
Im probably goign to buy a over clocked version myself but what i can say pro cons from what i see.

Pros Asthey overlcock it you have warenty, pros do the work for u, the settings are probably been tried and tested of long period of time so will hold up.

Cons cost more, you dont learn anything about overclocking maybe and should you change things in the future for example ram you will need to reset the settings and be back at stock to you learn to overclok yourself..
 
I've always OC'd myself, last one being Q6600, but this time I bought the pre-overclocked bundle since a lot has changed with mobos since then. I've still read a bit about what''s going on, but its nice to know I have a guaranteed 4ghz clock, and it didn't really cost much more, in fact i swear it was a couple of quid cheaper..
 
Ive just got the i3 4ghz bundle and despite a couple of teething problems (as much my own fault with unfamiliar hardware I think) its been 100% solid and super fast - Im happy to pay a couple of extra quid to have the right components specified and some tech support on the overclock should it go wrong.

My main concern with mine was the (relative to my old cpu) silly high tempertures, up to 80*C in prime95:eek: This is going from an A64 that couldnt get hotter than 58*C. Ive lapped the heatsink which helped a fair amount (shaped like a pringle! - got a bit more to do on it) and also dropped the vcore from the 1.325v it was set with to 1.125v, its passed 12 hours straight of prime95 with a peak temperature of 62*C :)
 
id do it yourself tbh. by all accounts factory clocked bundles use a generic bios profile to acheive said overclock. much better to do it yourself imo and keep voltage and heat to its mininmum.
 
My i5 @4ghz has never been stable, it would fail prime after a few minutes even after returning to OC.

Add to that the bios supplied was rubbish and needed updating to make the thing function correctly which of course I then had to Overclock myself anyway.

From my point of view I found it a total waste of money and time consuming experience.

If i'd know the problems I was going to have with the I5 I'd have gone for a none overclocked I7 set up.
 
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