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What are the pro's and cons of having your CPU's overclocked?



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My nephew just built a new system with the 2011 extreme chip and took it to 5ghz.unbelivable fast .overclocking does shorten the life of chip.so i have read.i overclocked my i7-950 from 3.06ghz to 4.2ghz load times are much quicker .



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When you need some programs maby photo Shop thhan it works faster but when not,i think it not need .when you wont that your game stard faster bay a ssd Hard drive you Cpü will live longer and the pc is verry fast !



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When you need some programs maby photo Shop thhan it works faster but when not,i think it not need .when you wont that your game stard faster bay a ssd Hard drive you Cpü will live longer and the pc is verry fast !

Yep

 

 

 

Cons : exept for specific needs (ex : professional, 3 screens with Photoshop, ....) no need to overclock the cpu, actuals i5 or i7 are enough faster. There is a real difference on the computer between a HDD or SSD or some different graphic cards but not really between overclocking CPU's. Just for bench...

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When you need some programs maby photo Shop thhan it works faster but when not,i think it not need .when you wont that your game stard faster bay a ssd Hard drive you Cpü will live longer and the pc is verry fast !

Yep

 

 

 

Cons : exept for specific needs (ex : professional, 3 screens with Photoshop, ....) no need to overclock the cpu, actuals i5 or i7 are enough faster. There is a real difference on the computer between a HDD or SSD or some different graphic cards but not really between overclocking CPU's. Just for bench...

 

thats true most of the time....

but if you have a pretty fast GPU like a 580 GTX or the new highend ATI GPUs or a SLI/ CF setup the bottleneck of your sys will always be your CPU

 

I am running 2x ATI 6970 in CF and I have a 4Ghz Core i5 750 OCed

 

all you have to have is a good balance between CPU and GPU


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What are the pro's and cons of having your CPU's overclocked?

I've got the i7 965 Extreme...never overclocked it yet.got it set to auto with c1e state and two other ones that bring the cpu out of idle state disabled in my mobo bios.i figure i can do that myself..lol


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i using a amd phenom 2 quad core black edition at 3.2 ghz not overclocked i get great speed...i personally dont like overclocked hardware because its hard on the life of it...im a pc tech....i sitck with standard clock speeds...want more speed upgrade cpu..best way to get long life out of it



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also overclocking make ur pc run hotter too..with pc s the cooler it runs the faster and better it runs



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Yup i am not going for the overclocked CPU's, also heard that it can make your PC crash on a regular basis, it will be fgast enough what i'm getting, thanks for the replies :thumbsup:

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Enjoy the way it is , Then when your getting tired of it , or need a little boost overclock it,,Like getting a new cpu , ,



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i as well am in south eastern Ontario LaRSin...half way between Ottawa and T.O..nice weather lately but cold as a witches boob today,,,see you out there



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When you need some programs maby photo Shop thhan it works faster but when not,i think it not need .when you wont that your game stard faster bay a ssd Hard drive you Cpü will live longer and the pc is verry fast !

Yep

 

 

 

Cons : exept for specific needs (ex : professional, 3 screens with Photoshop, ....) no need to overclock the cpu, actuals i5 or i7 are enough faster. There is a real difference on the computer between a HDD or SSD or some different graphic cards but not really between overclocking CPU's. Just for bench...

 

thats true most of the time....

but if you have a pretty fast GPU like a 580 GTX or the new highend ATI GPUs or a SLI/ CF setup the bottleneck of your sys will always be your CPU

 

I am running 2x ATI 6970 in CF and I have a 4Ghz Core i5 750 OCed

 

all you have to have is a good balance between CPU and GPU

Totally agree...i have the GTX 580 SC,,,and an overclocked cpu is better for games like crysis..bf3,Batman,Mafia with direct x 11 titles...the overclocked cpu lets this baby scream....mine overclocks easily though it has an unlocked multiplier,,,but i agree bottlenecks are usually always caused by the cpu holding back the vid card.

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I'm running an AMD 955 Black Edition, I have it overclocked to a stable 3.82 for thepast year and half.. (on air cooled)


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