[poll] do you lie about your overclock in your sig? have you ever?

[Face2Face]

Still rocking 4.8GHz. I hope it lasts long enough to go into my kids' computer

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

No, I don't post what my rig can't do. I feel my i7 970 can do 4.6GHz @ 1.371v and I have ran it for a while like that. I've passed 7 passes of IBT but @ 90*c for a few runs I had to shut IBT down. The rig is down right now due to a processor swap (W3690) and I'm waiting for all the parts to come in for a "custom" water loop.

 

[ninaholic37]

No, my PII is a beast and I'm proud of it.

What browser are you using to surf this site in Win98se? Firefox 3.6? Opera 9?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Netscape navigator?

 

[soccerballtux]

I do the same thing as YBS1. I don't think it's dishonest, because there is no forum rules stating that posted overclocks must "day to day" values. But, I'll change it to 4GHz so you can sleep easier.

but every post, was generated from a computer NOT running at that many Ghz.

 

[soccerballtux]

No, I don't post what my rig can't do. I feel my i7 970 can do 4.6GHz @ 1.371v and I have ran it for a while like that. I've passed 7 passes of IBT but @ 90*c for a few runs I had to shut IBT down. The rig is down right now due to a processor swap (W3690) and I'm waiting for all the parts to come in for a "custom" water loop.

what's your Cinebench 11.5 or r14/r15 (whatever's latest) score?

 

[YBS1]

see, now that's dishonest to me

Hmm...I don't see how. If you are at the gas station in a sports car and an inquisitive individual comes up and asks "How fast does it go?", do you tell them it's top speed or how fast you go down interstate on your daily commute? Whenever a new cpu comes out and everyone gathers in here to discuss the overclocking results, the positives or negatives center over how far it was able to be pushed, not how far minus ~10%.

If it's all about an everyday overclock then how about someone with a 5960X turn off Hyperthreading, disable 7 of the slowest cores, maybe one hits 5.2GHz...There! Daily 5.2GHz!

To which you may respond, "That's dishonest, it's not doing as much work per clock cycle to achieve that speed." To which I might respond "That's how I feel about an FX@4.6, it's only doing half as much work per clock cycle versus a 5960X@4.5GHz."

Also, I've never had to "turn down" one of my overclocks whether it be daily or bench settings due to changes in ambient so it seems I'm less on the edge of dishonesty in numbers than you.

 

[Abwx]

Overclocking on air with voltage forced at 1.5V whatever the node, this give a good pic of what is realisticaly, and honnestly, achievable....

http://www.overclockingmadeinfrance.com/omf-intel-core-i7-5820k/12/

 

[gdansk]

I don't overclock, so it'd be hard.

 

[TeknoBug]

No lies, I actually OC'd my i7 3770K to 4.2-4.3GHz with a -0.115v offset and 4.5GHz with a bump of 0.025v, silicon lottery baby.

http://valid.canardpc.com/8wdd5a

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Generally, what I post is the focus of my interest and the outcome of my computer-building goals.

A lot of people will boast that they can clock their systems to 5.0 Ghz. The more candid individuals will tell you "it will do 5.0, but for 24/7 I run it at 4.8."

To me, the only thing that counts is the 24/7 configuration. Since I may scour the forums looking for overclock insights, I want to know whether someone's OC record was a bragging-rights benchmark or a set-it-and-forget-it 24/7 setup. If chip benches at 5.0 but runs best at 4.8, the latter observation is more useful to me.

Similarly, the reporting of temperatures. The "package" temperature will match the hottest core. It is likely the temperature that will trigger throttling. But from another point of view, given that there are calibration errors in the core sensors, you could take a four-core average at each reading interval, and then average those averages over 20 minutes of heat-stress. "What is the prevailing thermal stress?" is a different question than "How close does my CPU come to throttling?"

 

[jji7skyline]

I run at 4.5Ghz for daily use, 4.6Ghz when benchmarking. 4.6Ghz is perfectly stable, but not something I'm comfortable with everyday. I use a Prolimatech Megahalems with 2x Cougar 120mm fans running push pull. My CPU is 4790K.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

what's your Cinebench 11.5 or r14/r15 (whatever's latest) score?

It did an 11.70, it's in the 11.5 thread.

 

[soccerballtux]

Generally, what I post is the focus of my interest and the outcome of my computer-building goals.

A lot of people will boast that they can clock their systems to 5.0 Ghz. The more candid individuals will tell you "it will do 5.0, but for 24/7 I run it at 4.8."

To me, the only thing that counts is the 24/7 configuration. Since I may scour the forums looking for overclock insights, I want to know whether someone's OC record was a bragging-rights benchmark or a set-it-and-forget-it 24/7 setup. If chip benches at 5.0 but runs best at 4.8, the latter observation is more useful to me.

Similarly, the reporting of temperatures. The "package" temperature will match the hottest core. It is likely the temperature that will trigger throttling. But from another point of view, given that there are calibration errors in the core sensors, you could take a four-core average at each reading interval, and then average those averages over 20 minutes of heat-stress. "What is the prevailing thermal stress?" is a different question than "How close does my CPU come to throttling?"

I agree.

It did an 11.70, it's in the 11.5 thread.

oh, that's a 6-core, ok nevermind. I scored 7.63 which is right about where yours should be-- basically performance parity with Piledriver clock/clock module/module. If I had 6 modules/12 cores, I'd be at 11.445. Come on AMD!

 

[VirtualLarry]

I don't necessarily think that listing a non-24/7 "daily driver" OC is dishonest, if the chip can validate at that speed, but I agree that it seems a bit misleading.

This forum, in particular (and in contrast to other forums, such as XS), puts an emphasis on 24/7 overclocks so, in general, I would expect that those would be listed.

 

[monkeydelmagico]

This forum, in particular (and in contrast to other forums, such as XS), puts an emphasis on 24/7 overclocks so, in general, I would expect that those would be listed.

Listed like in your sig or listed when you perform benchmarks? The overclocking I do tends to be focused on the goal to be achieved. If it survives the suicide run then that benchmark score and the OC that achieved it is legit.

Since I spend most 24/7 just goofing around on the web I could have a silly high OC.

 

[Yuriman]

For a long time, I had my overclock listed as "4.6ghz" in my sig, but I used Intel Extreme Tuning Utility for my overclock and had a profile set up so that it only ran at that clock when gaming or running certain productivity apps. For the most part it was set to ~4.2-4.4.

 

[manimal]

back in the day we put specs in sig so we could talk about our issues or performance or question without typing everything in every single time.

Epeen came later.

 

[biostud]

I have lowered an OC and forgot to change my sig. But I am running 4.4Ghz atm.

 

[tential]

Frankly, I only ever read people's "rig" sigs when I am in the VC&G forums, and checking whether a poster is biased because they have 3 Titans in their PC and are trying to validate their purchase by crapping on AMD.

It's the only time I use it. I don't care what OC someone has on their CPU at all. I don't even know what would be a good OC on my 4770k at the moment actually lol. The CPU power is there though I guess but so few things need the power of my 4770k at the moment or stress it that I don't care. When I get a Noctua cooler though then I might start caring. Soon... maybe next paycheck lol. I'm bored now and I don't go out or do anything so I keep adding to my server and now I want to upgrade my desktop to make it quieter and cooler (mostly quieter it's next to my bed now and I turn it off but I want it on 24/7 just so I don't have to wait for that 5 second bootup or however long it takes as my projector can't turn on before my PC anyway so it's pointless but I just want to you know?!)

 

[myocardia]

nvm

 

[DrMrLordX]

No, my PII is a beast and I'm proud of it.

Makes me wish I still had that K6-II 350 + ATI Rage Fury Maxx rig I borrowed from a guy for awhile wayyyyyyy back when. That machine was awesome in a not-awesome sort of way.

 

[poohbear]

I lie about my shoe size. But no, not my over clock.

 

[guskline]

I lied indirectly and was without knowledge of it. I had my CPU at 4.3 for years when the whole time I could have been running it at 4.6. This is a much worse sin IMO.

AHHH, The value of custom water cooling!

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Listed like in your sig or listed when you perform benchmarks? The overclocking I do tends to be focused on the goal to be achieved. If it survives the suicide run then that benchmark score and the OC that achieved it is legit.

Since I spend most 24/7 just goofing around on the web I could have a silly high OC.

Also trying to answer some other posts here . .

People can report what they want, as long as they're specific as to "what it is." A "24/7" overclock may push the voltage settings to the edge; it may only show high temperatures under stress-testing; it may operate at more moderate temperatures for gaming or other tasks. But a "24/7" overclock should be stable at both load and idle, and it shouldn't pose any long-term risk to the processor to run constantly at the OC'd settings.

If someone wants to report they "got their system stable at 5.0 Ghz," then they should be more specific about it. What cooling strategy? What load temperatures? What voltage -- "drooped" and "idle-turbo?" And the key question: Do they run that setting 24/7?