[SOLVED] Question about overclocking

[Marhrk]

Does overclocking affect gaming performance that much? How and when will it takes place? Just curious

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forum, newcomer!

It does, to an extent provided the overclock you're dialing in on your platform is to the advantage of the app's games and the tasks you're performing. Often times people dial in an overclock and all it does is dump more heat into the chassis but grants minimal benefits to frames in a game.

Overclocking is a packaged deal, once you overclock a processor, you will need to overclock your ram as well. Doing so for both will require the board to be up to par with your overclocking goals. You GPU can also be overclocked provided there's headroom.

Please include/list your specs like so:
CPS:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
OS:

 

[siaan312]

Depends.
In most modern pcs, for strictly gaming, gpu overclocking CAN improve performance by a few percent
while in most games CPU overclocking doesn't do much.

Though for other productivity things, or more cpu heavy games it might actually matter.

The problem is, manufacturers don't leave as much oc headroom as they used to.
With gpu boost 3.0, you can't get much more than a few mhz on your gpu, and with modern intel chips, you can only lock the multiplier. getting even 100mhz over the thermal velocity boost for 1 core is a win.



In extreme cases, say putting a low end dual core with a high end gpu.
for example, an pentium gold g6400 with a rtx 2060 super.

that cpu is very slow compared to the gpu, so it holds it back, and will hurt performance
(meaning, with a different cpu you might get faster results)
so overclocking, even 200-300 mhz, will be a huge boost.
(though the pentium is not overclockable, you get the point)

but cpu bottlenecking only holds to a point.
most modern 4 cores, and all modern 6 cores will not bottleneck any gpu on the market.


Also, the bottleneck in the system depends heavily on game, and settings.

Take more "simulation" type games, like cities skyline, they are usually more cpu bound.
while a game like gta v might be heavily gpu bound.

Resolution also impacts what is the bottleneck.
in 1080p high details, you might be cpu bound, but in the same game, upping it up to 4k will make you much more gpu bound.

I kind of went off topic, but
TL;DR
OC can help in some cases, and sometimes barely. it used to be much more enticing and with more benefits but those are becoming slimmer by the day.

 

[Marhrk]

Welcome to the forum, newcomer!

It does, to an extent provided the overclock you're dialing in on your platform is to the advantage of the app's games and the tasks you're performing. Often times people dial in an overclock and all it does is dump more heat into the chassis but grants minimal benefits to frames in a game.

Overclocking is a packaged deal, once you overclock a processor, you will need to overclock your ram as well. Doing so for both will require the board to be up to par with your overclocking goals. You GPU can also be overclocked provided there's headroom.

Please include/list your specs like so:
CPS:
Motherboard:
Ram:
SSD/HDD:
GPU:
PSU:
OS:

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