overclocking point?

[Guonus]

gday is it even worth overclocking? does it give you that much in perfomance ?

[Oshino Shinobu]

It depends. It can be a minimal amount or it can yield 10% or more increases in performance. 

[Coombzy]

Not in games but in some applications that use a lot more CPU you'll notice a difference. Also, its free performance, who wouldn't do it?

[Master Kusho]

1 minute ago, Coombzy said:

Not in games but in some applications that use a lot more CPU you'll notice a difference. Also, its free performance, who wouldn't do it?

Yeah it's free if you don't consider having to buy an unlocked cpu (extra money) and a OC compatible motherboard (extra money) 

[Guonus]

so with a corsair h100iv2, i7 6700k and gigabte z170 designare what would you expect to get then?

3 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

It depends. It can be a minimal amount or it can yield 10% or more increases in performance. 

 

[Coombzy]

2 minutes ago, Master Kusho said:

Yeah it's free if you don't consider having to buy an unlocked cpu (extra money) and a OC compatible motherboard (extra money) 

The enthusiast would already be buying these things anyway, also OC compatible motherboards (Z170 etc) are fairly cheap nowadays and offer a wider upgrade path for users. As for the CPU you can still OC without the K it just requires you to use the BCLK method. 

[Master Kusho]

So in other words it's not free performance 

[incarnate]

6 minutes ago, Guonus said:

gday is it even worth overclocking? does it give you that much in perfomance ?

In gaming it doesn't provide much benefit, unless you're bottlenecked. Outside of gaming it can help more depending on the application.

 

However overclocking is normally done for its own sake. Enthusiasts who oc do it to push their hardware to the limit, more for the sake of doing it than for the performance benefits.

3 minutes ago, Coombzy said:

Not in games but in some applications that use a lot more CPU you'll notice a difference. Also, its free performance, who wouldn't do it?

Who wouldn't? More ppl than those that would do it. People that don't want to pay for the unlocked cpus and oc costs, the cooling required. Those that don't want to risk damaging their hardware. Those that simply don't know how.

[Guonus]

2 minutes ago, incarnate said:

In gaming it doesn't provide much benefit, unless you're bottlenecked. Outside of gaming it can help more depending on the application.

 

However overclocking is normally done for its own sake. Enthusiasts who oc do it to push their hardware to the limit, more for the sake of doing it than for the performance benefits.

Who wouldn't? More ppl than those that would do it. People that don't want to pay for the unlocked cpus and oc costs, the cooling required. Those that don't want to risk damaging their hardware. Those that simply don't know how.

when you say risk damaging hardware what are the risks and are they even thet bad?

[Sauron]

It can give you about x% more performance for x% higher clock speeds. You won't get the boost in everything but you will in cpu bound tasks - and in everything else speedstep will make sure you draw as little power as possible anyway.

[incarnate]

1 minute ago, Guonus said:

when you say risk damaging hardware what are the risks and are they even thet bad?

If you put too much voltage through, you could fry the motherboard and/or cpu. If the temps get too high you could cook the cpu, causing it to lose stability and performance. The risks are there. If you are careful and diligent then you'll be fine.

[Guonus]

ok thanks mates

[paddy-stone]

If you run programs etc that can make good use of the extra performance, then yes of course there's a point. Also some unlocked CPUs come with a higher baseclock to start with, let alone the turbo boost... then if you have good hardware you can overclock it to a good amount in some cases. Example, i700 non-k is approx 3.5/6 can't remember at the moment and turbos up to around 3.9/4.0, whereas the i700K unlocked CPU, starts at 4.0 and trubos upto 4.5/5... then you can safely overclock it to around 4.6/7 per core even on air cooling if you get some good silicon. The k version costs approx £30 more is all... and a z170 can be had for approx £20 more than a non-z170 board with a decent I/O and feature set. so approx £50 total for a good amount of performance compared to the non-k.

It's not for everyone, but gives way more for your money in comparison. Sure it's a bit of a marketing gimmick in a way... intel could just set a higher base clock to start with etc etc... but that could lead to problems for the users that didn't know they had to provide sufficient cooling etc. This way at least it provides access to performance for novices and enthusiasts alike to some degree.