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- Feb 27, 2003
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DrMrLordX
Lifer
- Apr 27, 2000
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You only have two friends?
Friends will leave you. Women will betray you. Trust in steel, for it shall ever be true. By Crom!
In all seriousness, I DID once have an old friend who had an OCed Celeron 300a (okay, a college buddy built it for him but whatevs). He left.
I work in IT... in an extremely techy, innovative environment with some really clever nerds (30-60 yo).
Many of them look like nerds, fitting all the stereotypes.
None of them know what overclocking is.
None of them have ever heard of AnandTech. Or any such website.
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Many of them look like nerds, fitting all the stereotypes.
None of them know what overclocking is.
None of them have ever heard of AnandTech. Or any such website.
Sent from HTC 10
I work in CPU design and no one overclocks
Among my friends no one bothers with overclocking either.
Among my friends no one bothers with overclocking either.
now that I think about it, probably none, also I stopped overclocking CPUs once cheaper hardware became locked (2011), but I still OC my VGA and older hardware that I have (lga 775)
I've only had one friend that used to OC his CPU and GPU. Other than that, my two other friends that are PC gamers do not OC at all, though I am trying to convince them
- Aug 25, 2001
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tamz_msc
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I tried explaining overclocking to college friend, who is incidentally a very good programmer, and now works at a product-based software company. He had a Core 2 Duo E7500 - I explained the usual stuff, FSB*multiplier, Vcore, etc. He set the multiplier all the way up resulting in 4.5 GHz and it refused to boot.
That was the end of his overclocking adventures.
Personally, I don't overclock. Tried it on a GPU, didn't feel it was worth it, haven't bothered since then.
That was the end of his overclocking adventures.
Personally, I don't overclock. Tried it on a GPU, didn't feel it was worth it, haven't bothered since then.
Almost none. My cousin built a 2500K based rig (based on my recommendation) many years ago and had been running at stock until this year. He needed a bit more performance for his Photoshop work so I gave him a brief rundown on the BIOS settings. I also told him to ditch the dinky stock Intel HSF, I had a spare Megahalems HSF lying around so he used that. He could get 4.5GHz stable but he settled on 4.3GHz as his daily overclock because there was quite a big jump in voltage required to get 4.5GHz stable.
This is the only case I can remember of 'convincing' a friend or relative to overclock. Even some friends who used to overclock years ago have grown out of the habit or simply run laptops now.
This is the only case I can remember of 'convincing' a friend or relative to overclock. Even some friends who used to overclock years ago have grown out of the habit or simply run laptops now.
I overclock my pc's and have always had an at least decent gaming PC since college.
0 of my friends would ever overclock and only 2 have built a PC (with my help and part selection). Most of my friends play games on old gateways from 1997. I had a friend show up to a LAN party with DOTA on his laptop running in 4:3 mode. He didn't even realize it wasn't 16:9, like that wouldn't have occurred to him as an issue. My other friend had his computer on power saver mode for ~4 years and wondered why his games were lagging. Guess you could say he got a free performance upgrade at least.
That's what confuses me about the "enthusiast" market. From my own experience, no one does anything that is described on these forums. A $200 dollar video card is a once in a decade purchase, yet low end garbage on here. I've met literally 2 people in the last 10 years that could be considered enthusiast PC users/gamers. One told me he had a GTX 780TI, I couldn't believe it.
0 of my friends would ever overclock and only 2 have built a PC (with my help and part selection). Most of my friends play games on old gateways from 1997. I had a friend show up to a LAN party with DOTA on his laptop running in 4:3 mode. He didn't even realize it wasn't 16:9, like that wouldn't have occurred to him as an issue. My other friend had his computer on power saver mode for ~4 years and wondered why his games were lagging. Guess you could say he got a free performance upgrade at least.
That's what confuses me about the "enthusiast" market. From my own experience, no one does anything that is described on these forums. A $200 dollar video card is a once in a decade purchase, yet low end garbage on here. I've met literally 2 people in the last 10 years that could be considered enthusiast PC users/gamers. One told me he had a GTX 780TI, I couldn't believe it.
I used to overclock about 15 years ago but haven't needed to since then. I had a bunch of techie friends back then and only one of them tinkered with overclocking so now none of my friends overclock.
I would say I have two friends that overclock maybe 3.
2 of them don't overclock because they have grown up and no longer need the absolute fastest. In fact one of them I built my first computer with, I gave him my money and we both ordered near similar stuff (I got less memory, smaller HD, and a different audio card). But we both OC'd our Celeron A Socket 370 366's to 550. I don't OC any more either. Coming from computing at that time, the things that people complain about or use as "proof" of superiority means nothing in comparison to how bad it was using a computer in the late 90's and early 2000's and the amount to be gained from OCing. There is sooooo little to be gained from it that I value the power savings and not one iota of worry about the OC over the extra clock speed that means almost 0% in any extra productivity or tangible performance boost.
I have one other friend that focus's way to much attention on overclocking. It's a little weird to deal with him in his moods. Because like his last computer he got my input on was a mini-ITX case that he had to get a 980ti into and had to pass on the 290x even though it was faster than a titan at the time because cooling was a concern but then CPU wise all he cared about giving Overclocking a try even if it meant he didn't have the money for a good SSD. Took a while to get him to get an NVME drive (which is not very tangible over a sata drive but still more than getting an extra 200-400 MHz on a CPU OC). Basically none of my recommendations matter even though he seeks them out and all of his objectives battle each other and he tends to lack the sense to make compromises even if it makes his life easier. But this is a person that didn't really get into enthusiast computing till the late 2000's.
So yes I know overclockers. But really it's one of those walked 40 miles to school in -10 degree weather type of stories. Except it closer to the truth. People worried about overclocking to day and absolute outright performance in one or two area's at the sacrifice of everything else is really missing why people oc'd their cars in the first place. It's like comparing someone supercharging and upgrading their suspension in an mid 60's car, versus the Ricer/Tuner market today.
2 of them don't overclock because they have grown up and no longer need the absolute fastest. In fact one of them I built my first computer with, I gave him my money and we both ordered near similar stuff (I got less memory, smaller HD, and a different audio card). But we both OC'd our Celeron A Socket 370 366's to 550. I don't OC any more either. Coming from computing at that time, the things that people complain about or use as "proof" of superiority means nothing in comparison to how bad it was using a computer in the late 90's and early 2000's and the amount to be gained from OCing. There is sooooo little to be gained from it that I value the power savings and not one iota of worry about the OC over the extra clock speed that means almost 0% in any extra productivity or tangible performance boost.
I have one other friend that focus's way to much attention on overclocking. It's a little weird to deal with him in his moods. Because like his last computer he got my input on was a mini-ITX case that he had to get a 980ti into and had to pass on the 290x even though it was faster than a titan at the time because cooling was a concern but then CPU wise all he cared about giving Overclocking a try even if it meant he didn't have the money for a good SSD. Took a while to get him to get an NVME drive (which is not very tangible over a sata drive but still more than getting an extra 200-400 MHz on a CPU OC). Basically none of my recommendations matter even though he seeks them out and all of his objectives battle each other and he tends to lack the sense to make compromises even if it makes his life easier. But this is a person that didn't really get into enthusiast computing till the late 2000's.
So yes I know overclockers. But really it's one of those walked 40 miles to school in -10 degree weather type of stories. Except it closer to the truth. People worried about overclocking to day and absolute outright performance in one or two area's at the sacrifice of everything else is really missing why people oc'd their cars in the first place. It's like comparing someone supercharging and upgrading their suspension in an mid 60's car, versus the Ricer/Tuner market today.
HutchinsonJC
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I don't know anyone that overclocks. If someone I know does OC, I'm not aware of it.
In some sense, I think it's an art form that's pretty much entirely built upon a basic prerequisite knowledge, trial and error, and patience.
Missing any of those three things, and you're almost certainly not doing something right.
In some sense, I think it's an art form that's pretty much entirely built upon a basic prerequisite knowledge, trial and error, and patience.
Missing any of those three things, and you're almost certainly not doing something right.
- Aug 25, 2001
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I'm basically in the same boat, and I don't understand it. Back in the day, EVERYONE (who had any inclination towards computers and online) had a desktop PC.
Now?
Granted, most of my friends still have desktops, but they don't have a rapid enough replacement cycle to keep my business going, and they don't have a lot of money either.
I overclocked my friends GPU (GTX 970 from stock to 1489mhz using team viewer software to control his PC..
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