Is overclocking dangerous?

[Josh -_-]

Hi so I'll be getting a 3060 ti paired with a 5600x, however i'm wondering if overclocking my cpu and gpu will be dangerous? I will link to all my parts, I was just wondering if it would damage my components, Thanks.

 

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/Josh1982/saved/#view=dWNCdC

[Bombastinator]

7 minutes ago, Josh -_- said:

Hi so I'll be getting a 3060 ti paired with a 5600x, however i'm wondering if overclocking my cpu and gpu will be dangerous? I will link to all my parts, I was just wondering if it would damage my components, Thanks.

 

https://au.pcpartpicker.com/user/Josh1982/saved/#view=dWNCdC

Used to have potential issues but they’re mostly gone. The problem now is overclocking isn’t nearly as effective as it used to be so it’s potentially eating a lot of electricity for not much gain. There are people who actually underclock instead for this reason.

[SorryBella]

5 minutes ago, Josh -_- said:

however i'm wondering if overclocking my cpu and gpu will be dangerous?

Its gonna be fools errand regardless due to Ryzen's and Nvidia's super aggressive boost algorithm, but it should be A-Ok.

[Josh -_-]

Just now, Bombastinator said:

Used to have potential issues but they’re mostly gone. The problem now is overclocking is nearly as effective as it used to be so it’s potentially eating a lot of electricity for not much gain. There are people who actually underclock instead for this reason.

So I shouldn't bother overclocking? My house is run on solar panels so electricity isn't an issue

[Josh -_-]

1 minute ago, SorryClaire said:

Its gonna be fools errand regardless due to Ryzen's and Nvidia's super aggressive boost algorithm, but it should be A-Ok.

wdym by fools errand?

 

Nvm just googled it. I thought MSI afterburner would be able to do it easily though

[Bombastinator]

5 minutes ago, Josh -_- said:

So I shouldn't bother overclocking? My house is run on solar panels so electricity isn't an issue

Kinda depends. Laptop cpus and GPUs are generally underclocked desktop stuff, more or less. (Perhaps more less than more.  It depends a lot on individual examples) some people do it some people don’t.  It’s not like it was 15 years ago when it was kind of a “why aren’t you overclocking?!” Thing.

[Bobbysixjp]

15 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Used to have potential issues but they’re mostly gone. The problem now is overclocking isn’t nearly as effective as it used to be so it’s potentially eating a lot of electricity for not much gain. There are people who actually underclock instead for this reason.

This is true in my experience - I tried overclocking my 9900K to 5 GHz on all cores and it just used more power and creates more heat for not much more performance. I now leave it stock and don’t notice any difference. 
The same is true for my 6800 XT. If I overlock it I might see a difference in a benchmark such as Time Spy but it is not noticeable when gaming. And again it just uses more power which equals more heat. 
So unless you really need that small amount of extra performance which is not really noticeable in everyday use, then you’re better off leaving things running at stock settings. 

[Guest]

9 minutes ago, Bombastinator said:

Kinda depends. Laptop cpus and GPUs are generally underclocked desktop stuff, more or less. (Perhaps more less than more.  It depends a lot on individual examples) some people do it some people don’t.  It’s not like it was 15 years ago when it was kind of a “why aren’t you overclocking?!” Thing.

And if its AMD the architecture is a generation behind 

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Completely safe to oc nowadays, just not much gain from ocing anymore

 

~1.45v max ryzen, 1.4v reccomended

~1.52v max intel (intel spec) ~1.45v reccomended (unless you can run your cpu under 75c)

 

Instead of wasting money ocing your cpu, just buy some fast ram (4400mhz+) and overclock the absolute sht out of that, youll prob gain more from ocing ram than ocing cpu nowadays

[Bobbysixjp]

7 minutes ago, Somerandomtechyboi said:

Completely safe to oc nowadays, just not much gain from ocing anymore

 

~1.45v max ryzen, 1.4v reccomended

~1.52v max intel (intel spec) ~1.45v reccomended (unless you can run your cpu under 75c)

 

Instead of wasting money ocing your cpu, just buy some fast ram (4400mhz+) and overclock the absolute sht out of that, youll prob gain more from ocing ram than ocing cpu nowadays

Doesn’t fast RAM have more of an effect with Ryzen rather than Intel? I was under the impression that RAM speed doesn’t really make much of a difference with Intel CPUs.

[Somerandomtechyboi]

Just now, Bobbysixjp said:

Doesn’t fast RAM have more of an effect with Ryzen rather than Intel? I was under the impression that RAM speed doesn’t really make much of a difference with Intel CPUs.

I think on intel its best to go low latency ram like cl14 but then again you can just downclock a 4400mhz kit to maybe 4000 or 3800 and run cl15 or cl14 on it

 

Lowering the latency on my setup gives me around 3% boost in performance, then again its an old core 2 duo system so ocing the sht out of the cpu gives me alot more performance than ocing ram

[SkilledRebuilds]

2 hours ago, Bobbysixjp said:

Doesn’t fast RAM have more of an effect with Ryzen rather than Intel? I was under the impression that RAM speed doesn’t really make much of a difference with Intel CPUs.

Makes a big deal when CPU Bound.

Not when GPU bound.. but for multiplayer Low setting choices, if the game hasn't got an FPS CAP, like Apex does, so it does nothing for me, but WZ and actually CPU bound areas it works great.

 

Warzone downtown (Go around the 4 corners of the tower twice) I gained 40fps from 3200C14 to 4400C17 (OC) in Dual Rank config.

[Bombastinator]

8 hours ago, Cool_Evlo said:

And if its AMD the architecture is a generation behind 

Depends on the generation. Was true for a while. They seem to have caught up though because intel couldn’t get it’s thumb out for several years and there wasn’t enough competition to scare it into taking the steps it needed to.  Lately they haven’t been, the reverse has been true. Less true with GPUs.  Nvidia got a bit too cocky with rtx though.  I’m getting the impression that may not last though.  Duopoly doesn’t retard competition as badly as monopoly does. Still does a bit though.

[Bombastinator]

5 hours ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Makes a big deal when CPU Bound.

Not when GPU bound.. but for multiplayer Low setting choices, if the game hasn't got an FPS CAP, like Apex does, so it does nothing for me, but WZ and actually CPU bound areas it works great.

 

Warzone downtown (Go around the 4 corners of the tower twice) I gained 40fps from 3200C14 to 4400C17 (OC) in Dual Rank config.

I would say that is true unless the gpu uses the same memory as with an iGP. “Dawyd does tech stuff” had some 1030s with gddr4 and with gddr5.  The difference was apparently stupendous. 

Edited August 29, 2021 by Bombastinator

[Maticks]

with Nvidia 30 Series i wouldn't bother with Overclocking, the cards overclock themselves these days you would be lucky to squeeze out an extra 100Mhz out of the Core.

That is likely 0.5-1FPS, the issue with overclocking is not what damage it causes but if you are using DLSS it can become unstable with an overclock.

 

Slapped a water block onto my 3080 took it down from 70c to 45c under full load, thought i have the thermal headroom can get 2100Mhz stable from the standard 1950Mhz the card defaults too.

with DLSS off its stable, with it on not stable. 2000Mhz is stable for me with DLSS on but it makes pretty much no difference.

 

AMD still have some performance left on the table for overclocking GPU's.

 

CPU's is a different story you can get some really great gains from overclocking and they are very much impactful if you can get rid of the heat. Nvidia has already squeezed most of what was on the table into the product as a default.