Overclocking for boinc?

[piratemonkey]

I'm starting to boinc, and me not knowing when to leave well enough alone wants to overclock. I don't know if there's any benefit to be had, how to test for stability, or if I'll be more error prone (already had a couple tasks fail for whatever reason). this is for both CPU and GPU projects

[vsral]

Always consider power consumption (and as a result heat and noise).

That's why most people rather underclock / undervolt for distributed computing: more performace/watt

[rkv_2401]

As @vsral mentioned, most people undervolt for distributed computing as keeping the heat and noise low, and power bills sustainable for long term contributing are more important to them than peak performance. I'm running an undervolted Ryzen 3600 at base clock for BOINC.

On 8/31/2020 at 5:11 AM, piratemonkey said:

I'm starting to boinc, and me not knowing when to leave well enough alone wants to overclock. I don't know if there's any benefit to be had, how to test for stability, or if I'll be more error prone (already had a couple tasks fail for whatever reason). this is for both CPU and GPU projects

Is there any benefit to be had? Not particularly, in my experience, but you can try the built-in benchmark and compare the scores to see if it makes sense for you.

 

Testing for stability basically boils down to how many tasks fail over a certain period of time as compared to usual. If you have 70 or more failed tasks in a day, it could be a problem with the settings you've applied. If your computer is stress-test stable, and doesn't turn off abruptly at idle/low usage, it should be stable enough for BOINC.

 

Tasks do fail randomly on occasion, we only need to get involved if a string of tasks fail consecutively.