What noticeable difference does CPU overclocking make?

[System.exit(0)]

Overclocking is great and all but at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is noticeable performance.

 

GPU overclocking makes a big noticeable difference nowadays, especially with widespread g-snyc for adaptive sync monitors this can be a noon or dawn difference.

 

So I ponder, what actual noticeable difference does overclocking your CPU (a bit above avg. achievable overclock values) make? Does Windows feel snappier, noticeably more responsive or does it just affect that benchmark score that in the end you won't feel?

Feel free to comment anything / post your experience down below!

 

Thanks in advance!

[LamoidZombieDog]

a lot depending on how much you overclock it

[Mister Woof]

It's noticeable if the task you are trying to accomplish relies on CPU speed.

 

In terms of gaming, you need a fast CPU  (in addition to a fast GPU) in order to push higher framerate.

[Enderman]

No it does not make windows snappier, but with a large enough overclock you can get higher fps, faster renders, etc.

It all depends on what CPU it is, how much you overclock, what application, etc etc etc etc etc etc

[WickedStarfish]

5 minutes ago, System.exit(0) said:

Overclocking is great and all but at the end of the day, the only thing that matters is noticeable performance.

 

GPU overclocking makes a big noticeable difference nowadays, especially with widespread g-snyc for adaptive sync monitors this can be a noon or dawn difference.

 

So I ponder, what actual noticeable difference does overclocking your CPU (a bit above avg. achievable overclock values) make? Does Windows feel snappier, noticeably more responsive or does it just affect that benchmark score that in the end you won't feel?

Feel free to comment anything / post your experience down below!

 

Thanks in advance!

I only recently OCéd my CPU (first time doing an OC) and only increased it from 4.6 to 4.8 and i noticed a lot less fluxuation in the framerates compaired to before on the few games i have played

[GoldenLag]

1 hour ago, System.exit(0) said:

especially with widespread g-snyc for adaptive sync monitors

You mean Nvidia's final adoption of the adaptive sync spec making them able to use freesync monitors.

1 hour ago, System.exit(0) said:

So I ponder, what actual noticeable difference does overclocking your CPU (a bit above avg. achievable overclock values) make?

Depends on the CPU and how much overhead it has out of the box

[Stormseeker9]

Meh GPU’s, especially the new Nvidia ones with turbuboost 3.0 or whatever it’s called ‘OC’ themselves if there is thermal headroom