infamousIlusionist :
So there's basically I need some education...
What is overclocking and what is the use? Is it worth it? What's it for? Should I want to do it? Help me understand
Thanks a lot
LucoTF :
It can breathe new life into older CPUs
Overclocking is one last desperate attempt of performance delusional people to make their hardware work faster than it should. The best possible result most overclockers achieve is 10-15% or 5-10 fps in gaming.
However that requires purchase of specialized cooling hardware, where for the same price you can get the components which are already natively 10% faster.
So then... Core i5 + corsair H100i = core i7 = Xeon 1271 in price.
R9 270X vapor chamber cooler = R9 290 dual-x cooler in price.
8GB of well...