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What do I gain by overclocking a 1.33 GHz Athlon?

faster clock speed is obviously faster performance, by how much, probably not a lot unless you bench it to see, the main performance gain i see in clocking is FSB clocking which basically "clocks" the entire system and makes everything run a lil faster... and usually the increase in ram performance scales much better than pure core speed.
 
Don't forget you will gain a lot more heat so make sure you HSF is up to par. I assume since you have the 1.33 Ghz you have a beefy HSF.
 
If your doing RC5 for Anandtech Team it does make a BIG difference. At 1.3 you would crack around 4.3 Mkeys/sec. O/C to 1513 you crack 5.33 Mkeys/sec. That is a lot of difference.
 

In terms of gameplay & gaming-res (i.e.: 1024x768 at 32bpp & up) you will hardly be getting anything out of it - that is because at such resolutions at the moment (at least) the GFX-cards are the bottleneck, not the CPUs (in most cases anyway).

So - not MUCH point really, other than bragging about it & thinking you have a bigger willy by checking out benchmarks. In real-life terms, the difference will be minimal at best. Get a better GFX-card (pref. one from the future) when they've finally sorted out their memory-bandwidth problems & we can talk again 🙂.
 
Well, if you use flask it can be the difference in over an hour of running time when compressing a dvd into mpeg 4 format. Using the same movie and the same settings, my 1.6ghz takes 3h45min to compress to mpeg 4 while my friends 1.2ghz takes 5h21min.
 
Flask is a program that you use to encode video to different formats. Encoding it to mpeg 4 compresses it to about 1/10th it's original size with minimal loss of clarity. I just ripped the dvd "American Graffiti" and encoded it to mpeg 4. It now takes up 540mb and fits nicely on a ten cent cdr. But, it takes major power to encode..and time..kinda neat though..if you want more info, just private message me..
 
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