will overclocking cpu help F@H

[piratemonkey]

i know this could lead to stability problems and other problems, but could overclocking a 3600 help a bit? i know my cpu could go up to 4.2 ghz, just if it wont help a ton, why bother right

[porina]

Personally I wouldn't bother manually overclocking a 3600. At most, if you're running stock, turn on PBO which essentially turns off the power limiter, and it can boost higher if you cooling is up to it. Getting much more manually is a lot of pain, and any instability will probably cost you more than you gain.

[piratemonkey]

4 minutes ago, porina said:

Personally I wouldn't bother manually overclocking a 3600. At most, if you're running stock, turn on PBO which essentially turns off the power limiter, and it can boost higher if you cooling is up to it. Getting much more manually is a lot of pain, and any instability will probably cost you more than you gain.

im a tinkerer so manually doing stuff is inevitable. but my computer just crashed, so no overclocking lol

[TheBean]

imo, dont fold on your cpu. its extremely slow and doesnt do much. your electricity bill will be much higher with cpu folding. GPU folding is where you get actual performance/watt.

[piratemonkey]

1 minute ago, Saksham said:

imo, dont fold on your cpu. its extremely slow and doesnt do much. your electricity bill will be much higher with cpu folding. GPU folding is where you get actual performance/watt.

my landlord pays for electricity so i dont need to worry about it. and with the shortage of WUs, the more chances for one the better. i also find it takes about the same amount of time to complete a wu as the gpu

[Teriyaki.Handsome]

It seems like at the moment that unless you have 24-36 cores, it is really not rewarding to use a CPU as you get roughly an order of magnitude less points using a CPU as you do using a GPU. Overclocking is trying to slightly boost scores on something that is diminishing results already to me is probably a no.

My 8700K on average produces 5000-6000 points an hour (Overclocked to 5GHz), heats up the room, and slows down the GPU.  My older 1070TI produces 56500 points an hour and I can easily use other programs while it runs.  That makes me question if it's worth doing often.  Zen2 units have posted showing as many PPH as my 1070ti, and any GPU that is 20XX tends to produce far better than my 1070.

I have also found out that what I had tested and operated as a stable overclock for months was not stable on for FAH.  At one point I folded for for 2 days only to have my system crash while at work and miss out on 5+ hours of folding loosing out on about 300K points for the possibility of an extra 25K points.  You can see that it doesn't add up for me, your results may vary.