motherboard: Asus P5N-E SLI
Ram: 4 gig
CPU: Quad core 2.8gig
GFX: 9800GT in sli 2x
power supply: 1200 WATT thermaltake .
hi,
just wondering if i could overclock my computer, like is it safe, can my computer do it etc...
thanks...
The gains from overclocking a decent rig is bordering on pointless in my view since would you honestly notice the extra 5-10fps it would give? I doubt it.
These days its cheaper to buy faster gear than to overclock and toast the gear prematurely, in my own studies at overclocking I ran my CPU at 3.6ghz (a huge jump from stock 2.4) and guess what the framerates bearly changed, so looks like in my example I'd need a very high end GPU to make it worth the effort anyway. The moral? GPU is more important than a fast CPU these days.
thanks guys for the heads up, yea iv made up my mind was so close to overclock, but alot of my friends were telling me it
shortens the life of the cpu
On the topic itself :- The gains from overclocking a decent rig is bordering on pointless in my view since would you honestly notice the
extra 5-10fps it would give? I doubt it. These days its cheaper to buy faster gear than to overclock and toast the gear prematurely,
in my own studies at overclocking I ran my CPU at 3.6ghz (a huge jump from stock 2.4) and guess what the framerates bearly changed, so
looks like in my example I'd need a very high end GPU to make it worth the effort anyway. The moral? GPU is more important than a fast
CPU these days.
hi,
just wondering if i could overclock my computer, like is it safe, can my computer do it etc...
You might also want to take a look at :
PC Perspective - To Overclock or Not To Overclock, That is the Question
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Overclocking guide:
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Risks:
Risks of Overclocking the Processor
My humble opinion is that you shouldn't, especially that your hardware is all modern and hi-end. How comfortable do you feel with your system, do you experience any serious bottleneckings? If you really want to overclock, study what it can give you and search for hardware cases close to yours.
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Overclocking C2Q (Quads) and C2D (Duals) - A Guide - Overclocking Wiki
overclocking will not shorten the life of your processor,
Only if your throwing mad voltages at your processor then your gonna shorten the life of your processor, overclocking will not shorten the life of your processor
Too push now a days high end gpu's to "it's" maximum you need a high end processor to push it.
Why do you need an expensive high quality heatsink and fan when you Overclock? Why is the cpu heat carefully monitored on all critical computers in the world?
Let me share a secret ... if you increase the HEAT of any kind of electronic device... circuit boards, hard drives and ESPECIALLY processors.... it stresses the circuitry and causes a failure or shorter lifespan - every time.
Every processor, since the 386, will literally FRY before you can turn on and off the power - if it doesn't have a heatsink.
a processor will fry period injunction without abefore you can turn on and off the power - if it doesn't have a heatsink.
Prehaps you should have also mentioned when overclocking IF you don't up the game in regards to high performance cooling you will hit a big fat dead end real soon, as for a 20-30% overclock which certainly IS in the realms of a safe-ish overclock I very much doubt it would add 30fps on games that are running under 100fps BEFORE overclocking.
The only scenario for 30fps gains to happen would be a rig where it has a seriously slow cpu running (say dual core 2ghz) on a mid to high end motherboard with a gpu like a nvidia 280gtx or Ati 5870 (likelyhood of that? very low chance) it just wouldn't work out in the maths otherwise, then it soon becomes obvious that is there a point if the games at 100fps when most monitors are 60fps capped?
Anyway this brings me back to my statement of 5-10fps boost being realistic on a modern game when overclocking, hell my own experiments showed that 66.6% overclock gained virtually nothing on GTA4 (The game never even uses 50% CPU before the overclocking) for example, now had I a better GPU it may have certianly jumped up 30fps but a better GPU would have similar effect without overclocking. Therefore to overclock you need a rig thats ALREADY of decent spec to make it worth the hassles or the gains will be poor, as more and more games rely on the GPU to do much of the hard work, sure without a juicy CPU it will bottleneck, but it's important not to give people false hope of huge gains if they have an average GPU & CPU Combo.
That's just the problem twin 9800's AINT high end...they get pawned by a midrange 260 card, so like he said himself a 295 card would be a good starting point before that CPU of his even strains its muscles...and by then he's already be getting a huge gain...thus pointless to overclock really, until the said rig is beyond upgrade paths, and don't even get me started on the pros & cons of SLI/Crossfire vs simply buying a better GPu in the first place.
fair point...lol i do tend to get the soap box out and rewrite much of the stuff as it comes to me.
so if you have ddr3 with a I7 or new phenom "specially if it was overclocked" with the same 4890 or any other nice gfx card you would not gain any more frames per second?