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Hello everyone,

 

Now recently I was checking out some benchmarks for GAMING and it seem that going for 4690 instead of the K variants was a complete non brainier. The performance differences were about 6-9% going from stock 4690k into the 4.7GHZ. Now that's 6-9% whats the point? You need to buy a good cooler a z(branded motherboard) pay around 100$ for 6-9% gain at best? The eliminating bottlenecks argument won't work here since the 4690 will not bottleneck anything anyway for the next 3 years and surely 6-9% difference is not going to make big difference in performance anyway. Please maybe I don't understand something clear this thing up for me. The more I think about it the more I feel like overclocking, water, air is just a luxury for PC gamer's.

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Because we can. That's why.

 

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Free performance for a small risk (in most cases)

 

And its a hobby, if people want that 6-9% they shall have it

Generally that's the case, but you can easily fry your PSU messing with the voltages etc.

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You're right, OCing doesn't give massive performance gains on your CPU.  

 

But, for PC Enthusiasts any bit of performance is a bonus, and many want to take advantage of that as much as they can.

 

Also, OCing can also present some advantages for productivity applications.

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Free performance, that can really help out a lot, and it only take about 3 clicks and typing in 2 numbers.

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Why do people fine tune their track cars? To get that extra half of a second off of their lap time. 

Why do people overclock? To get that extra 2 frames.

Same thing. 

It's an improvement obsession. 

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Free performance! :P

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Bragging rights, obviously. At least with Broadwell's i5. There are other CPUs which vastly benefit from overclocking like the Pentium G3258.

 

Some people like to overclock as a hobby as well, when you think about it the i5 4690k doesn't make sense from a price to performance standpoint compared to its locked variants.

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Hey, even Space Shuttle's Main Engines throttle up to 109%!

Any unknown button should be pressed even number of times.

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Free performance boost. And ya gotta go fasts.

 

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Generally that's the case, but you can easily fry your PSU messing with the voltages etc.

 

Uh not your PSU usually but most definitely your CPU

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Free Performance. It's like saying why not make your car go faster. If you could press one button to make cut down a 0 - 60 time. WOuldn't you? 

The time you enjoy wasting, is not wasted time. 

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Generally that's the case, but you can easily fry your PSU messing with the voltages etc.

I've never heard of anyone frying a psu from overclocking :blink:

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I overclocked my Phenom II X6 (+1GHz) to keep up with the Intel i7 920...

 

It didn't quite do the trick... but it was better than stock.

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Free performance, that can really help out a lot, and it only take about 3 clicks and typing in 2 numbers.

Not nessasarily. That free performance comes with the cost of having a K series chip and a cooler to let it happen.

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Generally that's the case, but you can easily fry your PSU messing with the voltages etc.

Not being funny or anything but if you have a supply that can be fried by messing around with the voltage on a normal, enthusiast level then you shouldn't be overclocking. A decent supply wont get fried by messing around with the voltages a bit.

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@Enflics Everyone's saying "free performance" well like I said, this performance gain is very small, and really not worth the price you pay for it (referring to the 4690k)

 

The benefit of overclocking your CPU varies with the chip at hand. The 4690k offers marginal returns with an overclock.

 

So no need to be skeptical, the situation is really what it seems like.

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Why do people fine tune their track cars? To get that extra half of a second off of their lap time. 

Why do people overclock? To get that extra 2 frames.

Same thing. 

It's an improvement obsession. 

^ This. And who doesn't like beating records? Some people like me enjoy it, and others are scared of it, some don't care at all, and others might've been a bit dumb and pumped stupid amounts of voltage through such as a CPU and are now too scared to overclock... (Someone I know was a idiot and did this.. Pumped like 1.5v through a i7 950 and used it daily like that and it committed suicide after 2ish months)

 

If you're worried, and unsure about something with one of your components to overclock, do a bit of reading up on it to know. :)

 

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You can't have a cooler e-penis. Oh wait, I don't have such thing. Still it's fun and foremost education. Or just addiction, probably that. 

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Alright thanks everyone for the input I understand now!

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