What would i get by overclocking my CPU?

[DND]

Hey guys by tomorrow i might get my Kraken x61 and i'm planning to overclock my cpu. What would i get by overclocking my CPU? I mostly use my rig just to play game and do school works. 

[Overkilled]

a fried cpu jk. you could achieve 4.5GHz comfortably.

[xgn]

Make it go faster than default speed pretty much.

[WarWeeny]

What should you get?

I hope higher clockspeeds - fingers crossed!

[DND]

1 minute ago, WarWeeny said:

What should you get?

I hope higher clockspeeds - fingers crossed!

 

1 minute ago, xgn said:

Make it go faster than default speed pretty much.

 

1 minute ago, Overkilled said:

a fried cpu jk. you could achieve 4.5GHz comfortably.

 

Yes i know i can get higher clock speed. But what would i get if i achieve higher clock speed in what area would i get a performance boost?

[Rolling Potatoe]

Well, its going to be faster (duh).

If you doing some rendering it will take less time  and you will get more fps in games (as long as its  not totally gpu limited).

[Djole123]

Moaaar performaaaaaaance

[Overkilled]

Just now, DND said:

 

 

 

Yes i know i can get higher clock speed. But what would i get if i achieve higher clock speed in what area would i get a performance boost?

fps and rendering

[DND]

Just now, Rolling Potatoe said:

Well, its going to be faster (duh).

If you doing some rendering it will take less time  and you will get more fps in games (as long as its  not totally gpu limited).

Yes i know it would go faster. Oh i see i'm not really doing some rendering or editing stuffs, oh i see so i would still get a more fps in games.

[DND]

2 minutes ago, Overkilled said:

fps and rendering

oh i see thanks.

[Moonzy]

you would gain near nothing

except a slight raise in power bill

 

unless your cpu is the bottleneck for some tasks, i dont see why you should be overclocking lol

[DND]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

you would gain near nothing

except a slight raise in power bill

 

unless your cpu is the bottleneck for some tasks, i dont see why you should be overclocking lol

oh i see so if i'm just gonna use it mainly for games i shouldn't even bother overclocking? I'm thinking if i overclock my cpu i'd just shorten the lifespan and raise my electricity bill :3.

[Moonzy]

1 minute ago, DND said:

oh i see so if i'm just gonna use it mainly for games i shouldn't even bother overclocking? I'm thinking if i overclock my cpu i'd just shorten the lifespan and raise my electricity bill :3.

maybe you would gain a couple fps (less than 10%?), because games are normally gpu limited, not cpu limited lol

 

the lifespan of your processor will probably last longer than the time it will be useful if you overclock responsibly

ive seen post about people pumping 1.5v into their i5 and killing 1 or 2 cores, i hope you dont do the same

[DND]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

maybe you would gain a couple fps (less than 10%?), because games are normally gpu limited, not cpu limited lol

 

the lifespan of your processor will probably last longer than the time it will be useful if you overclock responsibly

ive seen post about people pumping 1.5v into their i5 and killing 1 or 2 cores, i hope you dont do the same

Oh i see, now i'm having second thoughts if i should overclock or just leave my cpu at stock. I'm not really into rendering and likes that are more on cpu dependent and i'm not seeing myself in the future into those things too.

[Moonzy]

Just now, DND said:

Oh i see, now i'm having second thoughts if i should overclock or just leave my cpu at stock. I'm not really into rendering and likes that are more on cpu dependent and i'm not seeing myself in the future into those things too.

i recommend doing a mild overclock, since theres almost no downside to it (assuming its stable because its just mild oc) other than 20 cents extra in power bill lol

[DND]

1 minute ago, Moonzy said:

i recommend doing a mild overclock, since theres almost no downside to it (assuming its stable because its just mild oc) other than 20 cents extra in power bill lol

Oh i see maybe an overclock around 4.0Ghz would that be consider a mild overclock? Well hopefully i got i good overclocking CPU unlike my GPU that can't even be stable at around 1400MHz.

[K0MP4CT]

4 minutes ago, DND said:

Oh i see maybe an overclock around 4.0Ghz would that be consider a mild overclock? Well hopefully i got i good overclocking CPU unlike my GPU that can't even be stable at around 1400MHz.

Not being an ass, but you said "oh I see" a lot

 

But just to support what has already been said, you'll get a slight increase with FPS and rendering. Although not a huge one.

[DND]

9 minutes ago, K0MP4CT said:

Not being an ass, but you said "oh I see" a lot

 

But just to support what has already been said, you'll get a slight increase with FPS and rendering. Although not a huge one.

Hahaha yeah i use that a lot :3.  

 

I might just do what @Moonzy said i'll just overclock it a little bit just to be on the safe side :3.

[Moonzy]

17 minutes ago, DND said:

Oh i see maybe an overclock around 4.0Ghz would that be consider a mild overclock? Well hopefully i got i good overclocking CPU unlike my GPU that can't even be stable at around 1400MHz.

well you can try backing off 300mhz from the max stable overclock lol, thats normally pretty stable for the long term

[DND]

Just now, Moonzy said:

well you can try backing off 300mhz from the max stable overclock lol, thats normally pretty stable for the long term

Yep maybe i'll try overclocking my GPU again after this sem ends at my school.

[WarWeeny]

A CPU overclock could mean a lot of performance gains in games like MMos and Mobas

[DND]

Just now, WarWeeny said:

A CPU overclock could mean a lot of performance gains in games like MMos and Mobas

Okay thanks, I don't really play MMOs that much right now but MOBA i mostly play a lot well not really a lot i only play Dota 2 :3.

[brandishwar]

Overclocking your CPU may or may not result in performance gains. Ironically you could end up with decreased performance because you're having to change the parameters under which the processor was originally designed and tested to run. It's a crapshoot. But any gain is a free boost in performance, provided, again, that overclocking does boost performance. Again it may or may not.

 

Having an AIO water cooler won't mean you'll achieve any particular benchmark, and anyone quoting particular GHz ratings as something you "should be able to easily achieve" is forgetting the fact that whether you can overclock your processor will be dependent on your processor. Each processor is unique. Some can overclock very well and will only be held back by thermal dissipation or power delivery, while others are crappy overclockers. My FX-8350 is case in point, as while I could achieve 4.4GHz on it without any difficulty, it wouldn't go higher than that, and.... it resulted in decreased performance as a result. Yes, I actually had better performance with it running at stock speed compared to overclocking it. Any multiplier boost resulted in decreased performance.

 

That being said, is it possible to damage your processor from overclocking? Only if you go overboard at the outset, but then many mainboards have failsafes built into them so that if you do decide to go overboard they'll do what they can to protect themselves and keep you from frying your chip. But don't rely on those to save your a** as they vary by model. Follow the numerous guides that are available, take it slow and in increments over days (meaning bump the clock a little, test it and play on it for a few days, then bump a little more, repeat till you reach the ceiling), and you should be fine.

 

Again, remember that your processor is unique, so don't have any expectations of reaching a particular result, whether a specific clock speed or performance gain.

[DND]

7 minutes ago, brandishwar said:

Overclocking your CPU may or may not result in performance gains. Ironically you could end up with decreased performance because you're having to change the parameters under which the processor was originally designed and tested to run. It's a crapshoot. But any gain is a free boost in performance, provided, again, that overclocking does boost performance. Again it may or may not.

 

Having an AIO water cooler won't mean you'll achieve any particular benchmark, and anyone quoting particular GHz ratings as something you "should be able to easily achieve" is forgetting the fact that whether you can overclock your processor will be dependent on your processor. Each processor is unique. Some can overclock very well and will only be held back by thermal dissipation or power delivery, while others are crappy overclockers. My FX-8350 is case in point, as while I could achieve 4.4GHz on it without any difficulty, it wouldn't go higher than that, and.... it resulted in decreased performance as a result. Yes, I actually had better performance with it running at stock speed compared to overclocking it. Any multiplier boost resulted in decreased performance.

 

That being said, is it possible to damage your processor from overclocking? Only if you go overboard at the outset, but then many mainboards have failsafes built into them so that if you do decide to go overboard they'll do what they can to protect themselves and keep you from frying your chip. But don't rely on those to save your a** as they vary by model. Follow the numerous guides that are available, take it slow and in increments over days (meaning bump the clock a little, test it and play on it for a few days, then bump a little more, repeat till you reach the ceiling), and you should be fine.

 

Again, remember that your processor is unique, so don't have any expectations of reaching a particular result, whether a specific clock speed or performance gain.

Thanks for the detailed explanation. 

[SteveGrabowski0]

3 hours ago, DND said:

Yes i know i can get higher clock speed. But what would i get if i achieve higher clock speed in what area would i get a performance boost?

It should probably smooth out and raise minimum framerates quite a bit if you're targeting 60 fps with vsync on, and should improve average framerates on the most cpu bound games (eg Fallout4).