What best describes your overclocking habits?

[jlee]

Originally posted by: Zensal
For me it's about the bang for my buck.

E5200 2.5 --> 3.76

CPU cost me $70 and gets performance > E8600.

Yep, this (but at 3.24). Maybe I should crank it up some more.

 

[DivideBYZero]

The 1st and 5th option. I can't really vote as there isn't an option for 'Mid priced CPU that will OC to the performance of the current top flight CPU in the range'. That's what I did the last time I refreshed my kit.

Wow, it's been years since I posted in this backwater!

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

I start projects but almost never finish them.

 

[LoneNinja]

I'm not one of them that goes for aftermarket cooling and see how far I can push a chip. I've always used stock coolers and usually won't increase voltage much if any over stock. I also rarely find a reason to run my chips at stock clocks, much less over clocked, so I'm actually more of an underclocker than overclocker.

 

[a123456]

Not sure exactly where I fit in, but I OC to the max just to see. Then I undervolt to the max and try to get the max OC out of the minimum possible volts to reduce heat/power. If I had to guess, I probably end up near stock power but higher clocks than stock.

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I start projects but almost never finish them.

Do you have Aigo disease?

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: Gillbot

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I start projects but almost never finish them.

Do you have Aigo disease?

absolutely

 

[aigomorla]

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

Originally posted by: Gillbot

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I start projects but almost never finish them.

Do you have Aigo disease?

absolutely

sorry but u know there's no cure right?

:X

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN

Originally posted by: Gillbot

Originally posted by: BTRY B 529th FA BN
I start projects but almost never finish them.

Do you have Aigo disease?

absolutely

sorry but u know there's no cure right?

:X

yhapm

 

[Bill Brasky]

I like to find max stable overclock on stock voltage. I'm growing more sensitive to noise, and cranking up the 120mm fans to cool the overvolt is loosing appeal.

 

[Smartazz]

First, I overclock to its max to benchmark it then I clock it down to where it's stable on roughly stock voltage. When the chip starts getting really outdated and it won't do what I want it to do, then I'll bump up the voltage and clock it higher.

 

[Kenmitch]

Originally posted by: Zensal
For me it's about the bang for my buck.

E5200 2.5 --> 3.76

CPU cost me $70 and gets performance > E8600.

Guily of this also

Except I chose to run my e5200 at 3.33ghz (vcore 1.108) even tho it'll do 4.16ghz (vcore 1.348) temps got insane at 4ghz and above and I didn't want to spend the $$$'s on a cooler.

Also I did it for the fun of it. It was alot of fun seeing just what my e5200 could do and at what voltages it would do it at.

What the hell here are the results from my special chip

2.00ghz (333x6) bios vcore .884 OCCT vcore .86 Temps 35*c idle 37* loaded
2.33ghz (333x7) bios vcore .900 OCCT vcore .88 Temps 35*c idle 38* loaded
2.66ghz (333x8) bios vcore .948 OCCT vcore .93 Temps 35*c idle 42* loaded

3.00ghz (333x9) bios vcore 1.028 OCCT vcore 1.01 Temps 35*c idle 44* loaded
3.33ghz (333x10) bios vcore 1.108 OCCT vcore 1.07 Temps 35*c idle 50* loaded
3.66ghz (333x11) bios vcore 1.188 OCCT vcore 1.15 Temps 35*c idle 60* loaded
4.00ghz (333x12) bios vcore 1.300 OCCT vcore 1.27 Temps 35*c idle 72* loaded

4.16ghz (333x12.5) bios vcore 1.348 OCCT vcore 1.31 Temps 38*c idle 84* loaded

As you can see my cooler pretty much met it's limit at 4ghz temps are from Intel Burn Test which seems to crank the heat up better than OCCT and prime tho.

 

[Munky]

I'm usually some combination of 1 and 5, but I recently got an i7 860, and have been to lazy to overclock. The performance is just that good, haha.