Weekend Open Forum: Do you overclock?

well I try to overclock my best was with my phenom x6 1055t which I got to 3.64 ghz it wouldnt go any further due to a motherboard hardware limitation

Q9550 at 3.8ghz. Air cooled by a Tower Tuniq. Solid. Once had a e8500 and it overclocked like a freaking NUT! from 3.16ghz to 4.2ghz on air!!!! That thing stood up to Crysis' face. Overclocking is always fun, I also overclocked my GTX465 (OMG WTF IS THAT!?) by a good 25% with even more room. but I'm happy with this for now.

A friend of mine and myself tried overclocking back in the Pentium 3 days (He was a computer tech at the time), the speed gain although impressive in the 3d benchmark made little if any performance difference in games. Haven't bothered since then.

hey guys i overclock cause i want to play may fav games at a respectable fps n my cpu overclocks 2.9 to 3.9 n i think that's good enough to stretch the legs of my graphics card, i also overclock my graphics card but i hasn't given me a good result.

Yes I overclock I7-930 to 4.2Ghz.
But I tend to buy a PC fairly high end at first then overtime increase the overclock. I would like to upgrade some of the maincomponants, ie Processor as things get cheaper, but INTEL keep changing the ruddy sockets... I went from Q6600 skt 775 standard at first purchase to in the end 3.2Ghz. My next move was having to change the entire barebone system. I should have gone AMD as at least they have the forthought to try and keep same sockets for ages.

I have slight overclocks on GPUs but only software and light tweaks in crossfire, luckily most games have yet to catch up.

Nope I have no reason to, no game bogs down my system.

i have never,,,

phenom II X6 1055, stock speeds are more than enough

I overclock an I7 960 3.2GHz to 4.05GHZ just to make the 4.0 club on an ASUS PT6D Deluxe Mobo with basic water cooling (bus clock 166x25)! I overclock my Radeon 5870 to GPU 890MHz and memory clock 1290MHz! My ram is overclocked at 1866MHz I believe but I'd have to leave this post and go into my bios to recall! I've been overclocking for years, it's fun and widely acceptable now! I never fried any components although some memory has failed along the way! I dont really like playing with voltage but I never really pushed past total stability! My system has a 7.6 Windows Experience Index! It runs like greased lightning! Instantainous!

I dont bother so much, tend to favor lifespan over an extra 3 fps

Only time I ever OCed was with P4 Pressler (don't remember the part name I think it was 940, correct me if I am wrong, though it ran at stock speed of 3.2 Ghz) anyway I didn't push it too aggressively for the little period I OCed it I think it was something like 3.32 Ghz; that's about it, I am not really crazy about 'few' %age of performance gain I'll have because of OCing, I rather like to have a stable and reliable system at my disposal.

Too bad dell PC's come with a locked BIOS that lets you change your boot drive but barely anything else. Planning to buy a new mobo and cpu heatsink to overclock my i7-920.

TS: Do you overclock?

Me: YES! I OC, need MOAR!

Just bought a Hyper 212+. Works like a dream even if it was a ***** to install. Got my E7500 from 2.93 to 3.85, AND my temps are lower than the stock heatsink on stock clocks. No harm in overclocking IMO. Your cpu will be outdated before it burns out in most cases.

I still have a Dell XPS 420... no overclocking options in the BIOS. However, I did pull out the CPU and did a "tape mod" on it sticking a tiny piece of tape on one of the pads on the CPU. I went from 2.4 Ghz with 1066 Mhz FSB to 3.0 Ghz with 1333 FSB. I never bothered monitoring my temps before I overclocked, but now they're at ~32c idle and go up to ~55c under full load. System runs 100% stable.

My first CPU I was able to overclock was my P4 630, had it up to 3.4 from 3.0, nothing special mainly because the motherboard just wasn't up to spec to handle anything more. After that I had the same CPU on a newer board but being nVidia based that was not happening. Next was my Q6600 that I got up to 3.6 from 2.4 again this was done on a nVidia board but this time a much higher end one, never got stability at that speed and had to settle for 24/7 use at 3.0 which was still a nice boost in speed. After that I had enough with boards that could OC and when the i series came out and everyone was having such great success overclocking I got my current setup, i7 920 on an EVGA X58 SLI board, within the first three days of owning it I had it running stable at 4.0 GHz which was all I wanted and has been stable and 24/7 running since last august now. I'll admit the occasional crash but its only certain games not stress test which is just odd, and the game that seems to get my PC is Starcraft 2 all of a sudden... But I'm starting to think its not my CPU OC and just the game not liking something in my system.

I overclocked my desktop. i7 920 d0 revision. I OC'd it to 4.2Ghz completely on air. I use the IC Diamond Thermal Paste and Thermalright Ultra Extreme HSF.

Idle is 32c and full load is roughly 50c. Granted, when I do p95, it can go up to 65 or so.

No i don't, my CPU or VGA don't need to overclock, they do enough for me with their stock speeds =)

overclocked when its not enough juice. P4 Northwood 2.4ghz to 3.0ghz. Not much improve gaming performance...for application it did a boost.