QOTD: Do You Overclock Your PC?

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I Do Overclock

Intel G0 Q6600 2.4Ghz Running at 3.8Ghz on air with Zalman CMPS9700 i have had it to 3.96 but not stable enough
MoBo - Asus Maximus II formula P45
Ram - 8Gb Mushkin HP2-6400 (800)DDR2 5-4-4-12 Running at 960
Video Card - HD4870 X2 Sapphire Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB GDDR5
Power Supply - Corsair HX 1000W Modular Power Supply w/ Dual +12V
Optical - LG BH08 Super Multi Blue 8x Internal Blu-ray Disc Writer w/ Lightscribe SATA - LG Super Multi Security DVD Writer 22x, SATA w/ Lightscribe,
HDD -All Seagate's 1x 320 Gb, 2x500Gb, 1x 1.5Tb, 1x 1Tb External- esata
Case - Cooler Master HAF 932 - 3 - 23cm ( 230mm) fans (Top, Front, Side) 1 (140mm)- 14cm fan Rear 1 - 12cm (120mm) fan Bottom.

Plus a nothing fancy Pentium D Dual core overclocked from 2.2 to 3.0 Ghz with one load ass fan that i need to get rid of.
 
I don't OC. I don't mind slower speeds, I prefer my PC to last longer as I don't have to money to change that often.
And since I'm not a big fan of FPS and my LCD's native resolution is pretty low, I don't really need to.

Intel Q6600 at stock speeds
GA-P35-DS3R
8 Gig of RAM
HD 2900xt
That's enough for me for the moment.
 
[citation][nom]AdamB5000[/nom]I don't overclock. I'm nervous about doing something wrong and causing instability or shortening the life of my components. It also doesn't really interest me.[/citation]
Same here. Also I'd get basically no real benefit, since I'm not a gamer.
 
I have a q6600@3.6ghz on a evga 780i mobo. Gpu is an evga gtx 285, ram is 4gb of ocz reaper ram 1066mhz and a ultra-120 extreme to cool the CPU. First home-made pc and overclock so I can play crysis at very high.

 
So as far as why I do it, well I like to tinker with things. Also it is a challenge ro see how far the hardware can be pushed. Same reason for running benchmarks, to see how the machine I built stacks up.

Ar one time I didn;t overclcock for the same reasons that some of you have given, worried aboout longevity of parts, its already fast enough, it plays my games fine, etc. But at some point I became more interested in pushing my hardware, it just seemed a natural extension of the mods I'd been doing and tweaks to video cards and so forth.

Nobody really needs to overclcok. But those of us who do are obviously getting something out of it
 
Have a Athlon 64 FX-60 @ 2.86 GHz, Corsair TWINX2048-3500LLPRO @ DDR 520, all packed in a ASUS A8N32-SLI DELUXE. Using a Cooler Master Hyper TX2 processor cooler with Nanofusion. CM Stacker (STC-001) case and lot of fans!!
 
I have a good ol' Opteron 165 OC'ed to 2.7 from 1.8 with a Scythe Zipang. It might go higher, but i like "roundness" of 50% OC :)
 
Yes, for one reason. Overclocking gives a better price/performance ratio than spending more on a higher-clocked processor, and today it is almost failproof.
 
I overclock every overclock able component in my pc, its free performance!!. For me it's not all about the performance, its looking at that awesome overclock and trying to get your system to its absolute bleeding edge of its possibilities.

E8400 overclocked to 3.76 GHZ undervolted due to Vdroop (100% Stable)
Gotta love the E0 stepping, overclocks unbelievably well.
Clock speed is limited by my ram which is at a 1:1 ratio with the FSB (836mhz ram clock @ 2.1 volts)
Zalman CNPS 7700CU running full tilt
4850 @ 680/1100 with a GFX Chilla HS.
 
i dont oc at all
running on a intel E8400 @3ghz
8gig memory
gf9800 x2
x-fi extreme gamer soundcard
motherboard is a asus p5q pro series
psu enermax 650w
primary hd wd velociraptor 300gig
blu-ray burner on sata port
and a 10/100mbps netwerkcard from D-link (nothing special)
in a coolermaster stacker case
i did however take the blu-ray burner to finaly get lost of my ide dvd burner so that i could turn off the ide loader from the motherboard for a faster booting time also the onboard soundcard and netwerkcard are disabeld for less stressing of the cpu and also the cpu cooler is a thermaltake golden orb (wich has a 16db output minimal and if i aint wrong 21db's max bhut dont shoot me i'f iam wrong on this)
i'f choosen this setting for a nice cooled quit bhut yet powerfull desktop the hd doesent maikes alot of noice becouse its running ide'l the most of the time thx to the amount of ram and the gpu cooler stays nice and quit aswel, havent even heard it on age of conan so far (it just sounds like a plain taking off the first 3sec of the pc booting bhut after that its nice and quit)
the soundcard has a passive cooling so no noice there , the psu never gets used at full capacity wich increases the lifetime of the psu itself and also keeps the noise down
and only 2 case fan's , one at the bottom front for intake and one at the top back for exhaust. these 2 are both 120mm's fan's wich i can control at the front whit a small regulater and they run at minimal speed al the time i'f got no problems whit cpu heating up to much or motherboard or any other components
so iam not lacking performance so nothing driving me to oc and its nice and quite (on my old systems i install linux cause i dont game on them or watch movies they just get used to surf the net or use messenger and stuf like that while my main system is used for downloading , watching movies , playing music or game's )
 
i Dont Overclock, Because it is dangerous , you need to have a expensive power supply to do that ... also patience , and good ram , if you overclock the component will have low life span wich mean you will have to change your pc every 1 or 2 years , stock speed components have more life span like 5-8 years even 10 , so its better stock than overclocker , also overcloking may give you some errors in the operating system wich happend almost to everyone .. and need to clean cmos .. etc ... too much work for hust a lil speed perfomance nah ..... i would prefer long life span security at stock speed 😀 cheers
 
I run a Phenom 9950BE at 14.5 X 207 for 3.0 GHz. Oddly enough, the unlocked chip will not accept a multi over 14.5 but will overclock a little more via the RAM. This is all at 1.45v, (which is the highest functional voltage, by the way). I would say I got a crappy chip but it runs every type of app, including intense (single-GPU) 3D, smoothly. Everyone wants a bigger one though, I guess 😉
 
I don't like overclocking actually. It does shorten life expectancy, even if done right. Processors are fast enough for everything you throw at it out of the box. I do believe that people shoud focus more on the parts that act as a bottleneck in their pc's, and maybe upgrade them (if not the latest) The only noticable performance increase we've had in the last year is the arrival of ssd's.
 
I've overclocked a few of my computers only when i needed to.

I currently have my Q6600 on a custom water setup (triple rad and danger den pump) at over 4.1 ghz. I see a huge improvement over stock speeds when for video encoding and folding at home. My AMD X2 4400 I used to have clocked at 2.6 ghz on air.

I currently have a MSI wind netbook and it allows you to overclock the Intel Atom from 1.6 ghz to 1.96 ghz with a push of a button (24%o/c) You can only do that on landline power but it helps out when you are doing something that you need power for.

however on my HTPC setup i have and AMD 4420e that is underclocked to save power
 
I overclocked a MoDT Merom T7200 from stock 2.0ghz to 3.06ghz. The only limiting factors are the voltage limitation and FSB capabilities of the AOpen I975xa-YDG not allowing more than 1066mhz fsb without freaking out. The max it ran stable was about 3.15ghz, but backed it down for my 24/7 server environment.

I have it water-cooled using a custom setup that includes CPU and Northbridge water-cooling with an added passive heatsink on the Southbridge chipset just for good measure. The reservoir is also the radiator, with a 120mm fan.
 
No. I've tried it in the past without any noticeable performance gains. The peace of mind I get from not overclocking my PC is more important to me than the imperceptible performance benefits.
 
I just put together a I7 920/P6t Deluxe computer and this is also my first real attempt at overclocking. I only went up to 3.2 GHz since I am still using stock cooling. So far there is nothing unusual about the temps and works fine. I did it to get a bit more performance out of my $290 Intel admission fee. I might try an aftermarket CPU cooler later on, but this thing is plenty fast for what I do. I can't believe Vista only took about 10 min to install.
 
I overclocked my E7300 to 3.33GHz 1.32Vcore. I believe my CPU is safe since Intel rates the max voltage of my CPU at 1.36V. As long as I stay this way I won't lose my components any earlier.
My 8600GT is factory overclocked by PNY but I gave it a bigger fan because it seldom heats up too much.
 
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