Overclocking Question

[DejjaY]

Hello guys, fairly new here. I'm not new in the pc world and have my industry certs, etc. But have no idea how to overclock or where to begin. I am currently running 2x GTX 770's in SLI, amd FX8350 being cooled by the corsair H100i, 16gb of corsair vengeance ram, and a SLI compatible ASUS motherboard that I can't remember the name of at the moment. I have stayed away from overclocking because I have never felt the need to since I can run all my games fairly smooth up until recently. My CPU stays fairly cool with it being no higher then 32 degrees C under load. Do you guys think I would get a performance increase If I start overclocking? I play all my games at 1080p, and have no interest in going higher. I know I know, then why would I have 2 770s if I wasn't going to play at a higher resolution. The reason is that I would rather spend an extra $150 for a performance increase then buy a new $500 card. I plan to upgrade in the next year or two.

 

edit: I also have a noctua nhd14 if that would be better for overclocking

[Poohl]

Overclocking improves performance almost always.

and it won't kill your hardware within the next 2 years.

[ClobberXD]

18 minutes ago, DejjaY said:

Hello guys, fairly new here. I'm not new in the pc world and have my industry certs, etc. But have no idea how to overclock or where to begin. I am currently running 2x GTX 770's in SLI, amd FX8350 being cooled by the corsair H100i, 16gb of corsair vengeance ram, and a SLI compatible ASUS motherboard that I can't remember the name of at the moment. I have stayed away from overclocking because I have never felt the need to since I can run all my games fairly smooth up until recently. My CPU stays fairly cool with it being no higher then 32 degrees C under load. Do you guys think I would get a performance increase If I start overclocking? I play all my games at 1080p, and have no interest in going higher. I know I know, then why would I have 2 770s if I wasn't going to play at a higher resolution. The reason is that I would rather spend an extra $150 for a performance increase then buy a new $500 card. I plan to upgrade in the next year or two.

 

edit: I also have a noctua nhd14 if that would be better for overclocking

Even in 1080p, OCing the CPU does yield a tangible increase of a few FPS (Courtesy of @Morgan MLGman)

 

 

[DejjaY]

How should I get started? Is it hard to do? And what should I not do?