is overclocking worth it

[torogitar]

Is overclocking a 8350 worth it for gaming?

[NewAndreas]

If you are getting limited by the CPU in gaming (bf4 or ArmA 3), and you have the cooling to do it, it is worth to overclock.

[Geekazoid]

Is overclocking a 8350 worth it for gaming?

Some say it is. I think it's a subjective thing.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

Yes, you get more performance than you would otherwise for free.

[torogitar]

Yes, you get more performance than you would otherwise for free.

How many extra fps would I get?

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Some say it is. I think it's a subjective thing.

 

How can it possibly be a subjective thing?  :huh:

 

Yes, if you don't push it too far it's most definitely worth it. Free performance can't possibly be a bad thing, and if you stay within reason it's not going to shorten the life of your CPU.

[TheNinjaNextDor]

How many extra fps would I get?

It depends on your OC, but maybe 5. It's still worth it.

[jj509]

I will say yes but do I really notice the difference. Not really. I just like knowing that its OC'd and I ran a benchmark to justify me doing it.

 

Beyond that I won't OC it any higher because come summer time my room becomes a sauna because of the extra heat output. Depending on what game I'm playing there is a 4-9C increase in heat going from stock 3.4 to 4.3.

[NewAndreas]

How many extra fps would I get?

Like I said, you will only see an FPS gain if your processor maxes out while playing specific games.

[Geekazoid]

How can it possibly be a subjective thing?  :huh:

 

Yes, if you don't push it too far it's most definitely worth it. Free performance can't possibly be a bad thing, and if you stay within reason it's not going to shorten the life of your CPU.

That's your subjective opinion speaking.

[harrynowl]

I only tell the difference in Adobe Premiere personally, but I still roll an overclock of 4.3 when I game.

[Osmium]

Yes, you get more performance than you would otherwise for free.

Nothing is free. More power draw and heat. But if neither of those are a concern it is definitely worth it. Personally I think it depends whether you need the performance or not. If you are doing just for funsies it might not but if you want to improve framerate/render times it might be worth it.

[TechFan@ic]

Overclocking your CPU + GPU makes a massive difference.
Modded Skyrim without overclocking is unplayable, with overclocking it's buttery smooth. It makes that much of a difference in my case.
I run my FX 8320 @ 4.6Ghz & my 7970 @ 1130mhz.

[D3MON]

How many extra fps would I get?

you'll only get more fps in games that are badly (single) threaded and max out a thread or 2 with the rest doing f*** all hence intel fanboys love ipc in thier mmo's.

in decent games/game engines like frostbite they evenly distribute across N number of cores (weather you have 4, 6, 8, 12....) so you wont be cpu limited so overclocking in those games will likely get next to no difference, if you do rendering or something than you can expect an increased proportion relative to your overclock (like 20%).

_With things becoming more evenly threaded you might aswell do a mild overclock to 4.2 and be done with it, youll get more performance in badly written apps and you're not piling tons of voltage and heat and power consumption into your chip, risking degradation and increasing temps.

do some gamign for a while and while in action alt+tab out and see what task manager and your gpu is doing.

[Hans Christian | Teri]

That's your subjective opinion speaking.

 

Well sure, if you think less performance is better I guess we can call it a subjective matter.

[s3ns3]

Overclocking your CPU + GPU makes a massive difference.

Modded Skyrim without overclocking is unplayable, with overclocking it's buttery smooth. It makes that much of a difference in my case.

I run my FX 8320 @ 4.6Ghz & my 7970 @ 1130mhz.

thats because amd cpus sucks in skyrim

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op if you play mmos and rpgs,yeah its worth it. if you play AAA titles you won`t really notice a difference

[TechFan@ic]

thats because amd cpus sucks in skyrim

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op if you play mmos and rpgs,yeah its worth it. if you play AAA titles you won`t really notice a difference

That's a false stigma really because I actually have an i7 2600 and it was no faster than my overclocked FX 8320 in Skyrim.

Review sites tend to benchmark vanilla Skyrim to showcase the "advantage" of the Intel chips but that's pointless as well because the Creation Engine is capped at 60 FPS and basically all the CPUs they test achieve 60FPS+.

What they actually do is disable this FPS limiter in the console which literally screws up the entire game-world (quests get corrupted & in-game time passes faster) just to showcase an artificial performance delta because you shouldn't have disabled the limiter in the first place if you actually wanted to play the game because it breaks the game.

 

[LawrenceBarnes2013]

it will make a margin change in gaming ,but so much more in other apps ,plus ,it depends on if games are pushing your CPU to it's limit and still not being enough ,that's when OC will come in handy ,but it shortens the life span of your CPU ,keep that one in mind

[Faa]

CPU bound: any load below 99% eg 80% on your gpu's
GPU bound: 99% consistently on gpu

Basically you would gain tons of performance when you're cpu bound but complety varies on how big the bottleneck is or not, but you won't gain a single frame with a CPU overclock in a gpu bound case. You'd be only gaining performance if you clock your gpu when being gpu limited. Also a GPU overclock doesnt make any difference in a cpu bound scenario. Adding a 2nd card would make no difference if you were already cpu bound with a single card.

You could pretty much say 20% overclock = ~ 20% more cpu performance = ~ 20% frames in a CPU bound situation.

[Faa]

That's a false stigma really because I actually have an i7 2600 and it was no faster than my overclocked FX 8320 in Skyrim.

You can't compare cpu's when the gpu is the bottleneck or vice versa. 

[TechFan@ic]

You can't compare cpu's when the gpu is the bottleneck or vice versa. 

That's my point, the game is GPU bound unless you intentionally break it.

[Faa]

That's my point, the game is GPU bound unless you intentionally break it.

What card are you using?