I am in the process of building a new PC and plan to install a new 3770k Ivy Bridge CPU.
I have been reading countless forums and benchmarks regarding the overclockability of the 3770k, but the question that comes to mind is why would anyone really need to overclock a modern CPU for gaming? My understanding is that most games are graphics card dependent, so how much difference could it really make if you are running at 5 GHz instead of 3.5 GHz? I understand that it is a huge difference in benchmarking, but I fail to see the real world benefit when it comes to gaming.
Would anyone care to explain the impact that overclocking an already powerful CPU can have on gaming? I apologize for this rather general question, but I really would like to understand how an extreme overclock can benefit gaming when the graphics card is usually the bottleneck.
I have been reading countless forums and benchmarks regarding the overclockability of the 3770k, but the question that comes to mind is why would anyone really need to overclock a modern CPU for gaming? My understanding is that most games are graphics card dependent, so how much difference could it really make if you are running at 5 GHz instead of 3.5 GHz? I understand that it is a huge difference in benchmarking, but I fail to see the real world benefit when it comes to gaming.
Would anyone care to explain the impact that overclocking an already powerful CPU can have on gaming? I apologize for this rather general question, but I really would like to understand how an extreme overclock can benefit gaming when the graphics card is usually the bottleneck.