[poll] Do You Overclock?

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Ducttape

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Just curious how many are overclocked. Cpu? Gpu? Everything?

I have my video card overclocked a little, but not my CPU. The temp doesn't seem to be affected, but it's just a minor tweek.

Using fraps I can see about 5-10fps increase with my card overclocked in TF2
 
Both 8800gt in SLI Ocd.

E series dual core Intel CPU oced from 2.66 > 3.10.

Gfx cards are running a faster fan speed.

CPU is running a Coolermaster Tower with a Scythe S-flex 120mm fan.
 
I've got a constant minor overclock on my GPU and an even smaller constant overclock on my processor with a 2% dynamic overclock to it. After a certain point you stop gaining returns from the overclock after dealing with instability and slowdown from heat. The point I have it at now seems to be a sweet spot for my hardware, as I've had system uptimes of 40 days or more. Usually only interrupted by a reboot to install something or to move the computer.
 
FSB up from 333 to 440 with a 2.5 Kentsfield at 7.5x it clocks up to 3.3.

Tightened my RAM timings a bit and my video card comes pretty well factory overclocked.
 
MrQ - how do you like the performance on the Q6600? I'm deciding on parts for my next build, and I love how that proc looks on paper. What are your real-world experiences?
 
I overclocked the GPU on my last computer, just to make it able to run the games I wanted it to run (it worked OK), but my current system runs all the games I want on high res and decent frame rates without it, so I haven't OC'd it yet. I probably will, just to get a little more umph than the 2.4/2.4ghz out of my processor, and maybe a little with my GPU, but for now I am happy.
Hmm....now that I think about it I have pushed the voltage on my RAM from 1.9 to 2.1, and that has made a little positive improvement with performance, but I'm not sure that I would consider that overclocking...
 
I overclock, just for the hell of it. Why spend $ 1000 on an intel "extreme" CPU when you can overclock! I've yet to see a Q6600 not hit at least 3.0Ghz on an intel board. I know the only reason I can't push mine further is the FSB on the Asus P5W craps out at anything over 333 X 9 with a Quad, but goes to 400 X 9 with a dual and that's a 2 year old board on a 975x chipset.
 
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MrQ - how do you like the performance on the Q6600? I'm deciding on parts for my next build, and I love how that proc looks on paper. What are your real-world experiences?
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My Q6600 performs admirably for multi-core applications.

The one stick is this. If you have got a program that is not multi core you will wind up running only the one 2.4ghz core which really degrades performance.

I have also found for 90% of programs, the Q6600 is not fully utilized. What you need to do to get all those cores working for you is to go to "Processes" off of Ctrl-Alt-Del and right click on a cpu crunching process and set the priority for the cores it will run on. Usually 2+3 or 3+4 are good choices.

Small tidbit...my Quad is a very cool (temp wise) overclocker. When my AS5 fully cured I couldn't push it to 50C on load at 3ghz. Also if you wanna overclock this bad boy stick to the Intel chipsets. The best is the P35, or so I have heard from other OC'ers.

Hope that helps.
 
thanks MrQ - great feedback. i thought about just getting a faster dual core (i'm running an athlon 3800+ right now, so it's a few years old) because they usually have higher clock speeds, but i do quite a bit of video rendering, so i figured the quad core would really push performance on that side of things. if i can OC it to almost 3GHz then i'll be pretty happy with it. appreciate the comments!
 
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thanks MrQ - great feedback. i thought about just getting a faster dual core (i'm running an athlon 3800+ right now, so it's a few years old) because they usually have higher clock speeds, but i do quite a bit of video rendering, so i figured the quad core would really push performance on that side of things. if i can OC it to almost 3GHz then i'll be pretty happy with it. appreciate the comments!
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If video rendering/encoding is your thing you'll love it.

I remember DVD to Xvid encodes use to take hours on my old P4 @ 2.3ghz. Running high quality 2 pass encodes overnight for 8+ hours.

The Q6600 @ 3.0Ghz takes about 40 mins and uses all 4 cores, it'll chew through an extremely high quality x264 2 pass encode @ 1920x1080 in about 4 hours.

99.99% certain you'll hit 3.0Ghz with an intel P35, P45, X38 or X48 chipset as long as you stick a decent heatsink on it.
 
I was able to hit 3ghz on a Nvidia 650i chipset. It took time and a cheat sheet from a guy who had done the same to his board. The absolute highest you can take the Q6600 on such a board is 3.04ghz.

Thats why I recommend intel boards. I plan on getting one for the quad and throwing in a e8400 on my P5N-E SLI. Either way I would have two rockin computers.
 
q6600's are great chips, but I would look into the Q9550's (45nm), they are hitting close to 4GHz on air @ low voltages. I have a g0 q6600 and was able to hit 3.6GHz with some tweaking, 3GHz was easy as pie. I do not OC my 8800GT, but may in the future if I ever need to.
 
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