OC's

[Lays]

Do overclocks truly make a difference? Do you see a difference from stock vs your OC, (and not just the placebo effect of doing it)

 

I've gone back and forth from the stock 3.8 and my 4.5 OC and I truly don't notice a difference, except in synthetic benches.

 

Anyone else experience the same? I've seen multiple people say it doesn't make a difference at all in "real world" type things, but some people act as if it's some huge night and day thing.

[Mdgtman91]

I dont notice a difference but i honestly dont do anything that would show me the difference

I simply did it cause i like the idea and brag rights of my 8350@4.7Ghz

makes my friends poop their pants

[Bluejay0]

OH YEAH THEY DO! 

CPU intensive programs utilize these. Not much exist but it does make a difference. 

 

For most programs, well no. It's kind of a bragging thing. If you want reliable headroom of performance, OC for no stutters or problems in programs.

[WoodenMarker]

I can feel it. I can't guarantee whether or not it's the placebo effect though.

[WorldDominator]

I can feel it. I can't guarantee whether or not it's the placebo effect though.

 

Your eyes and your monitor have become one after all these years

[lookoutworld11]

I noticed it in photoshop but like mdgtman91 said I just like to boast my 4770k @ 4.6ghz :D

[Godlygamer23]

If you do things that take advantage of the overclock, it'll make a difference. Such as running multiple video cards, video editing, file conversion, etc.

[Morpheus]

I notice a nice little fps bump when I play games, I love OCing :P

[MPX309]

I think it depends what you use ur comp for . . . When I'm rendering vids my CPU is up full, and my RAM is half full . . . I can't overclock my CPU but I think if I had an Overclockable one and I monitored what my performance then I would see some differences, but for general day to day use I wouldn't expect facebook to load any quicker or anything 

[Godlygamer23]

Also if you do any folding or run BOINC projects, you'll see some benefits there.

[tedjani]

for me games run 3/4 fps faster that it

[mvitkun]

It depends on multiple things.

-what do you use the pc for?

-is the processor you have adequate for what you do?

-is the processor the limiting factor in what you're trying to improve?

 

for example,for me.

 

I sometimes render large complex videos,or render out high poly 3D models.

Overclocking my i5 2500K would make a significant difference for me.

 

But if you have a 3930K and are simply gaming,maybe streaming then everything should already run more or less perfectly,because games use 4 cores,you have an additional 2 cores and 6 threads remaining for everything else.

so I can't imagine that unless you do something more cpu intensive you'd notice a difference.

 

EDIT:

@Lays

 

I did a very short 1 minute run through on metro 2033 with everything enabled (including DOF).it was done at the very start of the mission "hunter",walked through with Alexei to the door,stared at the people crowding by it,and that's it.

 

as you can see most of the time there is very little difference,but where it dips down on the stock clock benchmark run,the OC dipped down less.this results in more smooth and seamless gameplay.

this is the GPU,couldn't really test the cpu since my system is more held back by the GPU.

[SteepGnomeKing]

I get a solid 10 fps more in skyrim at all times. So yes.

You just have to be going higher than 50mhz to see that difference. I am at a +200mhz core and +400 memory clock.

[fishymamba]

Gaming: No.

Video editing: Yes

[Lays]

@mvitkun I'm trying to get more into video editing but I just don't know where to start.. :/

[Gauzl]

Helps with scaling Multiple GPUs, that's the only use I have for it.

[mvitkun]

@mvitkun I'm trying to get more into video editing but I just don't know where to start.. :/

what kind of video editing are you trying to get into?

[Lays]

what kind of video editing are you trying to get into?

 

 

Idk I sorta wanted to make gameplay videos, and I wanted a really cool intro for my youtube channel, but I have no idea where to start or how to learn lol :/

[mvitkun]

Idk I sorta wanted to make gameplay videos, and I wanted a really cool intro for my youtube channel, but I have no idea where to start or how to learn lol :/

what program?

[Lays]

what program?

 

 

Idk what to use thats the thing. There's like 12341234 different programs but IDK which is the easiest to start out on. Not to mention there is no way I'm going to pay 1,000$ USD for sony vegas, :q

 

I'll pm you for the rest of the convo since we're OT lol :D