Thread: Need some advice from the OC gurus

Originally Posted by Nuckle

Well except when you hot rod you see significant increase. I thinks it is more like trying to get a performance increase out of a new Ferrari.


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There are ppl that do that as well.

I've found good info here. Overclock.net - An Overclocking Community

If you are strictly gaming, you won't see much of a gain from overclocking your 2600k, but it won't hurt anything, and would only make things run a bit better.

The biggest difference is with video transcoding. Back when I had a 2600k, using Handbrake for transcoding video BluRay rips to MKV files (high quality) went from 2 hours down to 1:15. On average, I noticed my transcode times dropping between 30-45 minutes per task. This was HUGE because I could do more work in less time and get my gaming PC back faster. The other thing I noticed a huge difference with was encryption and compression. Not sure how often you would be doing that stuff, but it knocked 1/3 of the time off or most tasks.

Those that don't overclock simply don't have any reason to do so, but most power users would find that overclocking makes everything just a little bit better as it saves time and frees up your machine for the next task.

Originally Posted by Nuckle

Well except when you hot rod you see significant increase. I thinks it is more like trying to get a performance increase out of a new Ferrari.


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In his case, his Ferrari is 3 years old, and the new model is quite a bit faster and gets better gas mileage.

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If he overclocks the 2600k, it will surpass the latest and greatest, at the cost of requiring more power to run it. While it won't be near as energy efficient, it should be able to keep up with a stock Haswell on the performance scales.

Originally Posted by Nuckle

Well except when you hot rod you see significant increase. I thinks it is more like trying to get a performance increase out of a new Ferrari.


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Just like to point out two things. First, there are Ferrari tuning shops because you can always go faster. Second, mild OCing allows performance gains for little to no money and that is always good. CPU overclocking may not help in games but as Heavy described, computers can do other things besides gaming (I was surprised too) Video card overclocking can increase your frames per second but it's unlikely to result in a better game experience. By that I mean you probably won't be faster enough to play with higher settings or resolution.

In the old days, overclocking was a much better deal. A slot one Celleron 300a on a 440BX using the 100 mhz front side bus was faster than the Pentium III 500 which was the fastest CPU at the time. Or later when we did the slot A Athlons unlocked by a Gold Finger Device that hit 1 Ghz before such speeds were available from AMD or Intel. Those were major performance gains over stock speeds and well worth the risk and the voided warranties.


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The speed wars are pretty much over. Instructions per clock are king. If you look the speeds between Sandy Bridge, Ivy Bridge and Haswell really didn't change at all. The i7 2700k, 3770k and 4770k are all 3.5 GHz. Bloomfield (i7-920) was the one major exception. It was only clocked at 2.66 GHz.