Who has the most overkill setups for the intended use?

[Scia]

At the moment I am running a 5960x, 290x, full watercooling, for maybe 1-3 games of dota2 / week. And a little programming in java. Although it will not be overkill anymore next semester, when I'll be video editing non.stop =P

[farhanorakzai]

I use my pc for YouTube 9/10ths of the time

[catbutts]

780 Classified for Toontown and Twitter

[TetraSky]

Some dude got 3 graphic cards in SLI, says that his PC is "da bomb"... all he use the computer for is facebook. He hardly ever play games and when he does, it basically mobile quality type of games.

[MatazaNZ]

Any average PC user who gets an i7 for basic home use, like word processing and web browsing. This always annoys me. An i3 is adequate for that, maybe i5.

That said, my rig is a little overkill. i7 4770k, r9 290 for gaming, programming and daily web browsing. Full specs in my profile if you want to judge how overkill

[LiamApex]

for things like facebook you need at least 1,000GHZ CPU

[pugz]

3 Titans and 64Gb RAM ploughing through 1100W when she is stressed, might be considered overkill to some..  :unsure:

[the pokemon kid]

I upgraded my rig so that it could get 60FPS on mine sweeper. I cannot say I was disappointed... 

[SSOB]

My friend recently build an X99 5930K and GTX970 SLI + 32GB ram and a PCIe ( OCZ) 960GB SSD. The only game he plays is CS and LoL. Major overkill.

[MeepLikesToBuildPc's]

i use a X31 on a non overclockable chip just for looks

[KemoKa]

i7-2600K @ 5GHz with an ASUS 7970 DirectCU II. So far I use it for TF2, but I emulate Wii games as well, so I actually do need the horsepower.

[sulairris]

i only need to cool one can of dew but i have this.

 

 

 

 

lol JK my set up does what i want it to do with a little head room.

[Octavialicious]

FX-8350, 16GB of ram, and a 7990 for minecraft & browsing the internet, and sometimes occasional CS:GO

[Jedicake]

I wouldn't call my build overkill. But I rarely ever do content production, so this 4790k isn't really necessary. Though when I do finally get non-shitty internet I can finally start doing 1080p, 60fps streams. I do need the two 780's for my monitor though.

[thekeemo]

Mines overkill for 800x600

[That Norwegian Guy]

You have a 5.1GHz 3770k and a 212 Evo for cooling? F**king bulls**t!

 

I got 5.06Ghz @ about 75*C load with my 3570K on a Cooler Master Hyper 412 cooler. A 212 EVO would probably do the same at around 85-90*C.

 

Heat output is not decided by frequency, but by voltage. Some chips will do that well with moderately high but still safe voltage. As I wanted my voltage below 1.3v, I dialed mine back to 4.8Ghz. (1.28v)

 

 

FX-8350, 16GB of ram, and a 7990 for minecraft & browsing the internet, and sometimes occasional CS:GO 

 

 

That's not overkill, you could dial "down" to an i3 and run Minecraft better (depending on your OC with the 8350 of course)

[UltraNeonGaming]

I got 5.06Ghz @ about 75*C load with my 3570K on a Cooler Master Hyper 412 cooler. A 212 EVO would probably do the same at around 85-90*C.

 

Heat output is not decided by frequency, but by voltage. Some chips will do that well with moderately high but still safe voltage. As I wanted my voltage below 1.3v, I dialed mine back to 4.8Ghz. (1.28v)

I know it's based off voltage, I am saying at such a high clock speed there must have been an aggressive amount of voltage, unless he seriously won the silicon lottery

[That Norwegian Guy]

I know it's based off voltage, I am saying at such a high clock speed there must have been an aggressive amount of voltage, unless he seriously won the silicon lottery

 

That's what I'm saying. Winning the silicon lottery. How is this so far fetched to you that you call bullshit? It's not hard, like 10% of Puerto Rico i5-3570Ks and 3770Ks will break 5Ghz.

[KayTees]

i7-5960X, Corsair Dominator Plats 16 4x4, GTX 980 Superclocked SLIs for Minecraft? Worth.

[UltraNeonGaming]

That's what I'm saying. Winning the silicon lottery. How is this so far fetched to you that you call bullshit? It's not hard, like 10% of Puerto Rico i5-3570Ks and 3770Ks will break 5Ghz.

You don't see that very often with haswell , devils canyon's TIM didn't do much, I am expecting overclocks that are similar to haswell in broadwell.

Also does the place the CPU is manufactured have such an impact on overclocks?

 

You can't tell which factory your CPU comes from? Or can you??

Because I am building my first PC, with a 4790k very soon and I want it to be good, I have a feeling that CPU's that are bought in the holiday season don't overclock as well as others, just have a bad feeling about it

Also the stores where I am buying from are raising the prices of unlocked CPU's and saying that they are discounted

[That Norwegian Guy]

You don't see that very often with haswell , devils canyon's TIM didn't do much, I am expecting overclocks that are similar to haswell in broadwell.

Also does the place the CPU is manufactured have such an impact on overclocks?

 

You can't tell which factory your CPU comes from? Or can you??

Because I am building my first PC, with a 4790k very soon and I want it to be good, I have a feeling that CPU's that are bought in the holiday season don't overclock as well as others, just have a bad feeling about it

Also the stores where I am buying from are raising the prices of unlocked CPU's and saying that they are discounted

 

With Sandy and Ivy Bridge the general consensus on various forums (there are some deep threads out there with lots of data) was that Puerto Rico chips were doing better. The place of origin is printed on the heatspreader.

 

Is there a reason you're getting a hyperthreaded chip?

[UltraNeonGaming]

With Sandy and Ivy Bridge the general consensus on various forums (there are some deep threads out there with lots of data) was that Puerto Rico chips were doing better. The place of origin is printed on the heatspreader.

 

Is there a reason you're getting a hyperthreaded chip?

I know it's says where it's from on the heat spreader but is there anyway I can know where the chip is from before I buy it online, maybe I'll ask the online store to check idk.

 

I am getting an i7 because I do a lot of video rendering (In AE, premiere & sony vegas), Photoshop rendering and 3D work, and also because this will replace my current PC (With a 3770 Non-K) that I am giving to a family member, I don't want a downgrade by going to an i5

[EzioSan]

one of our corworkers was told to get a cpu for the office pc to run a beamer programm..

he bough 2x i7 4790k

[TheProfosist]

Intel i7-3820 and a Sabertooth X79 for a htpc

[loccilucas]

for example: running 4 980s in quad-sli for 1080p gaming. people might say my rig is overkill, but i need a solid productivity machine as i am doing computer studies for GCSE and A-level and want to pursue this as a career.

so, who here has the most overkill rig for their use?

How the fuck does a 15 year old afford that?