Advantages of overclocking?

[legend8887]

I've heard that overclocking the CPU does nothing for gaming, so why overclock? I have the 4790K and H100i.

[EMENCII]

The overclock brings some fps more, but anyway if you think is a waste of time/resources/money why buying a liquid cooled unlocked cpu? Overclocking is not effective in few cases...

[legend8887]

Who told you it wouldn't do anything for gaming?

It's pretty much free performance. 

Some games will profit more than others from it. 

Some people on this forum told me it wouldn't do anything for gaming, just video editing and other CPU intensive tasks.

[Enderman]

It does help. Whether a few more fps is worth the money for a k processor, CPU cooler, and Z board that is up to you. Some people do it for fun, other because it helps in many tasks other than gaming. Some people just do it for benchmarks and the numbers.

[RelentlessAF]

Some people on this forum told me it wouldn't do anything for gaming, just video editing and other CPU intensive tasks.

Some games are CPU intensive, for example Battlefield and Minecraft.

[legend8887]

Some games are CPU intensive, for example Battlefield and Minecraft.

I plan on playing games such as Titanfall, Battlefield 4, Battlefield Hardline, Watch Dogs, etc.

[CoolBeans]

It depends on the game, some games get more performance when you overclock

[Phoenix70]

It is free performance...games like far cry 3 get a nice boost when you overclock your cpu (check the new pentium benchmarks) while others not so much.

[RelentlessAF]

I plan on playing games such as Titanfall, Battlefield 4, Battlefield Hardline, Watch Dogs, etc.

Battlefield 4 and Hardline are essentially the same thing, but anyway you will benefit from overclocking so it's just free extra performance.

[i_build_nanosuits]

overclocking the CPU will give you a slight boost in FPS in games but only if you are in a CPU intensive game where your CPU is your limiting factor, if you are GPU bound then you will get exactly ZERO more FPS even if you overclock the CPU or upgrade it to something faster...

I plan on playing games such as Titanfall, Battlefield 4, Battlefield Hardline, Watch Dogs, etc.

watch dogs defenetly CPU bound game where overclocking your CPU will help, all the others NO boost from overclocking unless you play dual titans and aim for 120FPS.

[Judist]

Depends on your gfx cards.

If your running medium/high end GPUs your overclock will improve fps but you won't notice it.

Overclocking in my opinion if for fun, posterity, and tasks like video encoding where time = money.

[papeles]

I've heard that overclocking the CPU does nothing for gaming, so why overclock? I have the 4790K and H100i.

Just think: If your GPU isn't bottlenecking your cpu at all, the more your cpu can process, the better for the game. It's, as mentioned, free performance. Ofc that with the cpu that you have some games won't even put your cpu at 100% but complex ones will. But yeah, most of the difference will come from CPU intensive tasks as video transcoding and stuff such as that.

 

Again, you having that beast CPU and that awesome cooler, you should overclock, otherwise it would be kinda a waste of hardware (u could have bought low end i5 with stock cooler).

[ajlouni]

I've heard that overclocking the CPU does nothing for gaming, so why overclock? I have the 4790K and H100i.

dude you have the best cpu and cooler for overclocking just get a overclocking motherboored and push that baby to 4.9 ghz