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Do you overclock your gpus?

Do you overclock your video cards?

  • No

  • No, never consider it

  • No, but I'm interested in it

  • Yes

  • Yes, always

  • Yes, it's always part of a gpu consideration

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Where is the "I undervolted & lowered fan speeds" option?

When I first got my GPU I overclocked....mostly just to run benchmarks ect...
since then undervolt + slow fan speeds > overclocking.

Noise just annouys me more and more.
Im thinking the next card I buy should probably be passively cooled, same with my PSU.

That said I do appreciate the option of more power when needed in a card.
Im just not needing any atm, and thats with a old 5870.
 
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Ah I was going to put an option yes, when beneficial or similar.

I guess yes can be if you ever OC.

It's hard to think of all the options when starting a poll but obvious after. 🙂
 
I used to overclock all my GPUs, but at the moment I'm running at the default clocks, it can work stable at 25% higher clock, but the extra heat and power usage is not worth the gain I think...
 
When they are shiny and new I put new gpu's through the paces to see how high they will clock. However, constant benchmarking gets old and I stick to playing games. Currently running my 670s at stock clocks. Haven't found a game that really benefited from OCing them.
 
I always overclock. Why not? It's basically free performance. By the time any harm can come from it I'll have replaced it already.
 
I manually select to OC my card depending on the game. If the game runs fine at stock, I don't OC it. If the game runs far better with the OC, I click the OC profile in MSI Afterburner.

And its mostly due to power consumption and the temps in my room.
 
It's definitely a small consideration in the back of my head. Because once you get into high resolutions (2560x1440/1600) and surround, every bit of performance you can muster absolutely matters in a few select games.

If I were still at 1080p (and thank goodness i'm not anymore), I don't think i'd care that much, though. But on the other hand, if you're using light boost - you're again in the situation of needing every bit of possible performance. Even at 1080p. 🙂 I agree completely with CMD that it's free performance. So why not consider it? Because in many situations it matters, unless you're using 60hz @ 1080p or something.
 
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blackened23 said:
It's definitely a small consideration in the back of my head. Because once you get into high resolutions (2560x1440/1600) and surround, every bit of performance you can muster absolutely matters in a few select games.

If I were still at 1080p (and thank goodness i'm not anymore), I don't think i'd care that much, though.
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True, I hasn't considered resolution but you're right. In Battlefield 3 at 2560x1440 I do try to get a bit more performance. Usually ran it without AA just to keep frame rates up.
 
I have always overclocked as much as possible. However, I just bought a HD7770, Gigabyte I believe, that was factory overclocked to 1050. I thought since it was factory overclocked already, it must be good for more, right?

Well I cant overclock the dam thing a lick, using either CCC or MSI afterburner. Even adding 5 more mhz causes an error message, hard lock-up, and I have to turn off the power manually and reboot. It is perfectly stable at the factory overclock though, never crashes.

Dont want to derail the thread too much, but is this normal for HD7770? I had expected to be able to overclock quite a bit. I think my power supply should be adequate. It is a newer Dell XPS with the 460 watt power supply. I know that is not the best, but I should think it would be more than adequate for this card. I believe they put in up to 7850 from the factory.
 
I didn't think I was going to overclock my 7970, but there's so much power left on the table, it's hard to resist (~20% more fps on stock cooling).
 
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Yes, it should always be considered. You don't have to touch voltages to gain performance. My 4650 will overclock from 600/800 to 700/1000 without a single voltage change and no extra heat. That's quite a performance bump for no extra cost.
 
I overclock but I am sensitive to noise so I do not overvolt anymore, and I will only tolerate fan speed to the point where it's audibly perceptible.
 
I overclock if my GPU can't hit at least 45 fps at 1080p at stock. So far it's only been Crysis 3 and Tomb Raider on my Titan.
 
I have overclocked my GTX 570 on occasion for benchmarking and to see what the GPU was capable of. However, due to noise, the limited gain to be had (about 15%) and not wanting to blow out the VRMs (a common problem on GTX 570s because they power a GF100 with 4 phases), I generally game and keep it 24/7 at stock.
 
My 7870 is constantly at 1.1GHz core, 10% more than stock. I'll downclock the memory if just mining, though. HIS put a rather monolithic cooler on this card...even OCed it hasn't broken 70C playing anything. Quieter than my case fans, too. I might go higher at some point.

Not much point in overclocking, say, HTPC cards. So I don't always do it.
 
I overclock cpu and gpu as not only is it silly not to use the additional free performance but depending on the game its actually needed from both my cpu and gpu. what I dont do is push my system to the edge. I use a conservative sweet spot oc and never add any unnecessary voltage. I want my parts to last and still be good for someone else for years to come when I upgrade.
 
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