What's the point of overclocking

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infamousIlusionist

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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
 
Solution




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...


Seeing as how it can play every game I have, maxxed out graphic wise, (games like Crysis3 for example), I would imagine it can play minesweeper, even though I have never played that game to my knowledge.

 
Bit before your time?

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