Real World Gains

[jshake]

Hello, To All
I am new overclocking. That being said. I have a Sabertooth 990fx with a Amd 1090t. I am using a Noctua NH D-14 Cooler. I am running Kingston Hyper X DDR3 1600. Due to IMC of the 1090t , I am only running ram at 1333 Mhz. This is my question , I have had this system overclocked stable at 4.1 Ghz ( 24 hours Prime 95 - Blend ) No crashes. Temps were at , cpu 61c and the cores at 52c max. under full load. I dropped back to 3.8Ghz , My temps dropped to cpu at 52c and cores at 45c under full load with again Prime 95 Blend for 24 hours stable. I am not a gamer or do any type video encoding. I was basically just trying to lean how to overclock. I can not tell any type of real difference between 3.8 to 4.0 Ghz. For those out there who overclock all the time , Is there any real benefit for running cpu at close to max except for benching scores or bragging rights.
Thank You
jshake

 

[Z1NONLY]

Have you disabled "Cool & Quiet"? (in the BIOS)

If not, you may be comparing two dirt-slow speeds. Due to that power saving function, your computer will run as low as 800 Mhz until your system thinks it "needs" full speed/power.

If all you do is surf the web and other "easy" tasks, you may only be using a fraction of the available speed.

 

[loneninja]

3.8Ghz to 4.0Ghz is only about a 5% difference in clock speeds, it would be very difficult to notice the difference without using benchmarks to measure.

 

[calinkula]

Since you don't game or encode video it'd be hard to find a situation where 3.8 vs 4.1 will be felt in any meaningful way. Like "I cut 5 min off the encode job" or "I just upped the min framerate by 5 fps".

If you don't have an SSD already, you should get one. For an improvement in user experience, there is nothing that can match switching from a regular HD to an SSD.

 

[grahamie]

Since you don't game or encode video it'd be hard to find a situation where 3.8 vs 4.1 will be felt in any meaningful way. Like "I cut 5 min off the encode job" or "I just upped the min framerate by 5 fps".

If you don't have an SSD already, you should get one. For an improvement in user experience, there is nothing that can match switching from a regular HD to an SSD.

Ill agree with that in this situation adding an ssd will be his biggest gain, without a doubt. Your temps being what they are 3.8 makes the most since there is no need to pump extra voltage and increased temps into that cpu if its not going to be utilized.

 

[HostileDonut]

If you are just surfing the web, watching videos, etc, no there will be no difference.