Will Overclocking a CPU/GPU greatly increase the performance?

Kris_90 · 30 Dec 2011 at 19:15

Hi

My question is in the title

Will overclocking a CPU/GPU greatly increase the performance of a pc, particularly in games?

My CPU - AMD Phenom II X6 1055T @ 2.80 GHz
My GPU - Gainward GeForce GTX 560Ti "Phantom" (don't know what it's clocked at, I don't think it was overclocked by the manufacturer)

I've only recently started playing games on PC but I haven't had any issues with my CPU/GPU. They seem to run every game on high @ 1920x1080. Will overclocking them give me a big performance boost?

Cheers

koooowweeee · 30 Dec 2011 at 19:21

No it will slow your games down. That's why we do it. Games are to fast and run to smooth

Deception · 30 Dec 2011 at 19:23

If you have the cooling for it, I dont see why not. I will give you a better average FPS in games. What games you mainly play and current FPS?

WingZero30 · 30 Dec 2011 at 19:31

koooowweeee said:
No it will slow your games down. That's why we do it. Games are to fast and run to smooth

cammy5477 · 30 Dec 2011 at 19:33

koooowweeee said:
No it will slow your games down. That's why we do it. Games are to fast and run to smooth

quality

j.col · 30 Dec 2011 at 20:12

koooowweeee said:
No it will slow your games down. That's why we do it. Games are to fast and run to smooth

lol

@OP
go for it (this is an overclockers forum :rolleyes:

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Kris_90 · 31 Dec 2011 at 08:32

koooowweeee said:
No it will slow your games down. That's why we do it. Games are to fast and run to smooth

lol obviously it helps, I'm asking will it massive improvement?

For example does overclocking your CPU from 2.80 GHz to 3.80GHz make it a lot better?

Geeman1979 · 31 Dec 2011 at 08:37

koooowweeee said:
No it will slow your games down. That's why we do it. Games are to fast and run to smooth

Haha classic!

Jay794 · 31 Dec 2011 at 08:44

I recently upgraded from a Quadcore 2.33Ghz to an i7 currently at at 3.70Ghz (stock is 3.40Ghz) my own personal benchmark tests are how long it takes to open Microsoft Word and Photoshop CS5 and how long it takes to convert a 30min TV show, now although Windows itself doesn't appear any faster (except a few higher numbers on the monitoring software) I can tell you that on my own personal benchmark tests its a hell of a lot faster, for one thing 64bit CS5 doesn't crash on startup anymore lol

WJA96 · 31 Dec 2011 at 08:49

Kurby said:
lol obviously it helps, I'm asking will it massive improvement?

For example does overclocking your CPU from 2.80 GHz to 3.80GHz make it a lot better?

It will be better at benchmarks, and there have been cases where overclocking a graphics card has actually made unplayable games playable. So yes, the difference can be quite startling.

It can also be completely invisible if you don't actually stress what you already have. If you make your car capable of 100MPH rather than 70MPH, but you never drive over 50MPH, you'll never notice the difference, will you?

I have also seen massively overclocked PCs that felt slower than stock in use because memory timings had been badly done and although the PC benchmarked like a dream it actually felt sluggish to use it.

Kris_90 · 31 Dec 2011 at 09:04

WJA96 said:
It will be better at benchmarks, and there have been cases where overclocking a graphics card has actually made unplayable games playable. So yes, the difference can be quite startling.

It can also be completely invisible if you don't actually stress what you already have. If you make your car capable of 100MPH rather than 70MPH, but you never drive over 50MPH, you'll never notice the difference, will you?

I have also seen massively overclocked PCs that felt slower than stock in use because memory timings had been badly done and although the PC benchmarked like a dream it actually felt sluggish to use it.

Thanks, that's what I thought, I don't max out my pc in anyway so it looks like it will be pointless in me trying to overclock it.

Cheers

WJA96 · 31 Dec 2011 at 09:08

Kurby said:
Thanks, that's what I thought, I don't max out my pc in anyway so it looks like it will be pointless in me trying to overclock it.

Cheers

That's probably a good strategy. Then, in 9 months time, when it won't do something you want it to, you can try overclocking it and see if it gives you an improvement.