Do you overclock your computer?

[Jannie]

My i7-5820K is running at 4.4GHZ and about 15% OC on my Phantom 970's.

 

[WhoCares123]

Pentium Core E5400 @ 2.7 GHZ
into 3.25 GHZ
then a Pentium 4 @ 1.8 GHZ
into a burnt Processor -_-

 

[MrBlkfx1]

My I7-2600k is OC'd at 4.6Ghz. I've personally OC'd all parts in my build that can be OC'd. However, I've reduced my GPU's down to stock as I've had issues with high GPU temps. I tend to go for a 15-20% OC for my GPUs as that's what I've been able to successfully the last couple years. (6950's,7950's,R9290's)

 

[Per Hansson]

Only every computer I've owned for the past 15+ years
Went out on a small nostalgia trip here

https://www.techspot.com/articles/athlonxp_overclocking/index.shtml
https://www.techspot.com/tweaks/geforce4-vmod/index.shtml
https://www.techspot.com/tweaks/radeon_voltmod/index.shtml

 

[feathers632]

I5 2500k @ 4.8ghz. It was 4.9ghz but had to reduce it after a few years. I have always overclocked and always built my own PCs. CPU is liquid cooled. I used to have a peltier and liquid back in the days of Pentium. Used to chill my CPU below 0c. I miss those days but thermo-electrics use a lot of current. I once bought a mazda RX7 car radiator and modified the fittings for my liquid cooling. The two 12 inch fans had an incredible sound like a C130 at full speed. Another thing I did was drill a hole in one of my water-blocks and have the water pumped directly on to the CPU heat-spreader. I was never brave enough to try and remove the heat-spreader from any of my processors.

 

[darkzelda]

I have an Core i7 4790K with a little overclock to 4.2 GHz and a GTX 970 with a little boost (+90) to the memory, but to tell the truth, with today's hardware, over clocking is hardly needed.

 

[feathers632]

I have an Core i7 4790K with a little overclock to 4.2 GHz and a GTX 970 with a little boost (+90) to the memory, but to tell the truth, with today's hardware, over clocking is hardly needed.

Depends what you're doing with it. For flight sim X with HD scenery you need every bit of processor power you can get (and I don't mean GPU). It was pushing even my old i7 1st gen overclocked to 4ghz. 3d rendering is another thing. My rendering would take a lot longer at the default speed. 4 years down the line and my CPU is still top of some of the processor benchmarks due to overclock. Some programs benefit from high clocks over parallel.

 

[Cryio]

FX 6300 @4.5 GHz with Vcore 1.38

R9 280X @1080/6800 with no Voltage adjustment

 

[mosu]

AMD Phenom II X3 720 @3.2 GHz w Arctic Cooler (200 MHz x16 instead of x14 original clock)
AMD A10-7850K @4.4 GHz on air Noctua , so mild overclock overall.

 

[Petr Bendak]

I5 4670k @4.1 GHz
r9 290 @1080/5000

 

[Axle Grease]

I set a lower and an upper CPU multiplier limit in BIOS setup, but that's it. My motherboard wears the pants on the matter of when to overclock.

 

[Lionvibez]

I7 970 @ 4.2Ghz

Stock clocks are 3.2Ghz

 

[tonylukac]

No. Would suffer burnout.

 

[lripplinger]

I was mildly overclocking my Core 2 Duo E8500 (3.6 GHz instead of 3.16), until it hit me that I cannot afford a new CPU, Mobo, and RAM, so I went back to stock to hopefully squeeze a few more years out of this setup.

To bad Intel chips predated 2010 are vulnerable to a serious exploit recently discovered.

 

[Yarrow]

Not unless I am benchmarking. I found myself being distracted by temps and gpu clocks instead of actually playing the games.

Man that is so true...

 

[DaveBG]

Yes about 20% of the CPU and RAM

 

[feathers632]

Yup, CPU overclocking doesn't do that much for most games but there are some that benefit more. Flight sims or anything with heavy simulation. My Zotac GTX 680 overclocks very well with 145mhz on GPU core and 155mhz extra on vram. I get a boost of at least 20fps.

I have 16gb Gskill 1866mhz ram and it was only after 3 years did I discover it overclocks! It's now running at 2133mhz.

Timings relaxed slightly but still absolute top of memory latency benchmark on Aida64.

 

[Nobina]

Sometimes I overclock my GPU on the cooler days but cannot my CPU due to motherboard limitations, not really looking to overclock it since it's a Celeron G1820 and I'm going to replace it soon.

 

[dexterkarthik]

Intel Core 2 Quad still running fine at stock 3

 

[EClyde]

No. It's a waste IMO. BUT, if that is what guys want to do I am all for it after all it is a personal computer

 

[feathers632]

No. It's a waste IMO. BUT, if that is what guys want to do I am all for it after all it is a personal computer

How can it be a waste of time if it benefits some games and apps? Even the desktop is noticeably faster when overclocked beyond a certain point. If I set my 2500k back to default speed and I can the effect on the desktop, browsing etc and of course games. Complex simulations benefit from big overclocks too. As I mentioned previously... flight sim X with HD scenery is too much even for an overclocked intel CPU on very high settings. It all depends on your applications. Clearly you aren't doing anything on a PC that benefits from overclock but many people are.

 

[Razer]

A couple of weeks ago, I OC'd my gpu, and then my gpu fans toasted
so, I put 120mm fan below my vga card

currently looking a way how to overclock my dvd-rom

 

[Spykezxp]

Overclocking is always a yes for me. I like to squeeze out as much juice as I can from any machine that comes in front of me. Current rig has a FX 6300 @ 4.3Ghz (Daily) and my HD 7870 (I know - its aged) is running 1155 / 1375.

 

[deemon]

Intel Core 2 Quad still running fine at stock 3

mine is at 3.2GHz (stock was 2.67)

 

[Squid Surprise]

Always have... just got myself a beast (triple Titan X, 5960X, 64GB RAM) and I'm finding I don't really need to any more...

But I still did it for some benchmarks - and as it ages, I'm sure I'll find myself OCing to squeeze a few extra FPS on the newest games...