Overclocking Statistics

[brazzmunk]

What's the percentage of people that actually overclock their cpu and other components out of thrill or for improvement in performance

 

[Duvie]

Improvement in performance.....

I have a 47% increase in cpu speed...translates to

cad apps (44-50%) increases in performance....

Encoding apps (27-52%) increases in performance....or decrease in times

science and math apps (42-55%) increases in performance...

archiving apps (30%)

gaming apps (8-39%) wide range....

 

[MDE]

I do it for both. Nothing like saying I got an extra 700MHz from a "lowly" 1.8GHz CPU and then putting it to use in games or crunching F@H.

 

[ironique]

Get 4000+ performance at 3000+ prices, why in the world wouldn't you?

 

[TStep]

I can't say I do it for thrill, that's what roller coasters are for. But I do it mostly for hobby (like to tinker), practicality (if the performance is there, why not use it), and lastly price (I feel much better about the possibility of destroying $100 parts vs $500 parts while tinkering). So I guess it all comes back to tinkering as my primary motivation.

I generally don't find much fun in taking top of the line stuff to lofty levels. I much prefer taking someone elses scraps, tweaking them, and making them perform way beyond their capability.

For example, in last year's hardware drought, I bought about bunch of old 370 boards and cpus to tinker with. Low and behold, I was able to slap together several tualeron systems running above 1600mhz, performing in the XP1800+/P4 2gig range, and all of it ran very quietly.