Is overclocking worth it?

[Chiyawa]

Just now, GoodEnough said:

nah im too cheap for something like that, thats why i have a psu thats 750w thats neither even white rated or bronze rated

PSU White and Bronze are just a power efficiency standard, nothing to do with the quality. You can have an unrated PSU that could out perform an 80 PLUS Gold PSU.

 

Still, you should consider to add a heat sink for your CPU. This actually will help you in the long run, as heat is the main enemy for any electronics component, and you can prolong your CPU life.

[SavageNeo]

Overcloking ryzen is usually not worht it, since at gamign it boostest couple of cores higher lets say 4.3ghz with 2600x. but you can only do manual all core oc to around 4-4.2ghz. so Enabling PBO and lettign cpu to boost by itself is better idea.

[Vishera]

Just now, SavageNeo said:

Overcloking ryzen is usually not worht it, since at gamign it boostest couple of cores higher lets say 4.3ghz with 2600x. but you can only do manual all core oc to around 4-4.2ghz. so Enabling PBO and lettign cpu to boost by itself is better idea.

The 2600 and 2600X cannot do 4.2GHz all core,and the closest thing to PBO is XFR on the 2600X.

[GoodEnough]

Just now, Chiyawa said:

PSU White and Bronze are just a power efficiency standard, nothing to do with the quality. You can have an unrated PSU that could out perform an 80 PLUS Gold PSU.

 

its not rated because its like cheap kinda cheap, its $50 for this 750w psu.

 

Just now, SavageNeo said:

so Enabling PBO and lettign cpu to boost by itself is better idea.

precision boost overdrive is i think a zen 2 type thing, zen+ only has regular precision boost, and i dont have my cpu any higher than 4ghz unless im doing benchmarking, anything higher than 4ghz is unstable for a ryzen 5 2600 for long periods of time.

[aisle9]

8 hours ago, oldSock said:

Thus i personally concluded the factory knows best, they probability have very smart engineers that worked hard on the product.

Bro, do u even Gigabyte?

[ishapli8]

13 hours ago, LilPach said:

So I have a 1660ti and stream using the nvenc encoder I know some would say performance is performance but I mostly play fortnite. Would overclocking my gpu be worth it or would it pretty much not do much. 

If you don't want to overclock you can also at least get msi afterburner or something and turn the power limit all the way up it might help a little.