how many pc users do you think overclocks

[Soundmanred]

<1%

 

[Zodiark1593]

What is the percentage of PC users do you think overclock both or either of their GPU and CPU? I asked because I never overclock in my first build because I thought it was too complicated and didn't want any problems.

I'd say less than 10%.

I got my laptop's Radeon 5470 up to 900 MHz up from the stock 750 MHz and the memory from 800 MHz to 1.0 GHz. I've even had success at 1 GHz core clock in a couple Battlefield 3 sessions, though Source games tend to crash at that speed.

A pity though, a winning silicon lottery wasted on such a low end chip.

 

[aigomorla]

lul u guys remember this comercial..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GR5_X1CfUA

if only intel still felt that way... instead of gutting the us like they are now.
maybe they did get scared cuz even our grandmothers were overclocking...

 

[ocre]

gutting us? how?

 

[Idontcare]

The last chip that I over clocked was celeron T back in.....2001? Don't recall when I bought that but I remember the final clock speed was 1466. Those were the days! First chip was the infamous 300A.

Ha ha, the 300A was famous! Not infamous. The original cache-less 300, now that was a sad excuse for a CPU and was infamous!

And the other employees with their personal machines? Phones. Tablets at home. Really old desktops. One woman told me she had a "college student" work on her machine; the Geek Squad wanted too much money.

And she was probably right!

For the OP - I'd venture to guess less than 1% of CPUs being used today are OC'ed.

 

[tolis626]

I've been away from PC overclocking for quite some time,but I guess it's similar to people overclocking/undervolting their phone's CPU.So I'd say less than 10% know about it being possible,about half or less of those have at least remote knowledge on how to do it (Mostly those with a background in PCs) and less than a quarter of the latter actually do it.So yeah,I'd agree with the 1-3% opinion.

lul u guys remember this comercial..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_GR5_X1CfUA

if only intel still felt that way... instead of gutting the us like they are now.
maybe they did get scared cuz even our grandmothers were overclocking...

Please don't tempt me to give my PC to my grandma and ask her to overclock it...I'd die to see her shouting "PWNED!!!!!" when she kicked someone's butt in a game online.

 

[XiandreX]

It's not for everyone I guess. Though I do scratch my heads when I see people leave their K-rated Intel CPUs at stock

Thats the big point right there. If you dont intend to overclock why even buy a K series Cpu. Makes me scratch my head as well.