I used to, FX6300 and 6600K both really benefited from a healthy OC.
Now I'm running a 5600x I just don't see the reason! Weird how things change...
( If you count it though, I heavily undervolt my GPUs for them sweet temperature gains 8) )
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I used to, FX6300 and 6600K both really benefited from a healthy OC.
Now I'm running a 5600x I just don't see the reason! Weird how things change...
( If you count it though, I heavily undervolt my GPUs for them sweet temperature gains 8) )
Nope.
Yes, though I don't try to get every ounce of performance. I'm running my 2500k at 4 GHz on air, with the voltage still on the "Auto" setting (stock is 3.3 GHz, with 3.7 GHz single-core turbo). Could probably get it somewhat higher with some voltage tweaks, but Intel's overclocking utility doesn't work with my mobo for some reason and restarting a bunch to tweak it through the BIOS is more work than fun. If it stops being adequate at 4 GHz, it's probably time to find a Ryzen, not to tweak it to reach 4.2.
The only part I've ever spent a lot of time fine-tuning the OC on is my original 8600M GT in my laptop, back in the 2007-2008 timeframe. I got its core clocks up to 595 MHz from 475 MHz, though I'd only OC it for games where that made a benefit. The VRAM on it didn't overclock well at all, so I left it at stock. Never have overclocked any of my desktop graphics cards, and once I built a desktop with a Radeon in 2011, I stopped OC'ing the laptop's GPU, after one final core OC to 600 MHz to prove I could hit that number.
Though I've since replaced that 8600M GT with another one, and now I'm slightly tempted to see if the new one can hit 605 MHz.
Not any more, there's no point.
Not for CPus at the moment - the motherboard on my core 2 quad box doesn't support it, and the xeon CPU boosts itself; likewise for the graphics card. I did use MSI afterburner to tweak things for the nvidia quadro fx3800 - that was running very hot so running the fan up to max when gaming instead of letting it decide for itself dropped the temperature by around 15 degrees.
Still being in the iron age with my overclocked core 2 i can't really say much. Having said that a couple of weeks ago I decided to push it to 4+ GHz and then thought why am I trying to up it for and actually switched back to stock clocks which it has never been set to (with a slight under volt). It was running hot and the fans were constantly going from it just being on but now the temps are half and the fans barely go. I think the only time I will switch it is if I need to do some encoding or play a game which I hardly ever do.
If I got a new computer likely I will invest in a decent cooler for the auto power boost stuff but overclock will just be for academic purposes and to see how far it can go.
Nope, I run everything at stock.
If anything I undervolt both CPU and GPU. That lowers temps and ends up giving me slightly more boost frequency. No need to overclock anymore thanks to the built-in boost.
Is PBO classes as an overclock, if it is then yes, All my Intel systems have been manually overclocked but I now run AMD and they use PBO.
Well I certainly do...
Got my 5960X at a comfortable 4.6GHz right now, although that's a far cry from Der8auer's 6.5!
I have O/C'd my GPU before, but it's really not worth it these days. Tech has moved on several generations, to the point where better graphics are best obtained through a new card.
Never bothered, personally. Too fiddly to bother with back in the day, and now everything's blisteringly fast out the box for my needs!
No I don't overclock, every time I've tried I've been disappointed. I bought the non K version of Intel 10th gen and am happy with it's performance and I use less power since it's a 65W TDP.
I overclocked back when it meant noticeable performance changes: my favorite was a Coppermine 600 MHz I stuck in a slocket and got 733 from, with just jumpers, stock fan, etc. But that was also on a college student budget. Now I can afford acceptable performance without overclocking, and in fact the thing I like to do is see how low wattage I can go and still be acceptable performance. I might actually start undervolting in my next SFF build, to help keep the heat down.
No. I never have. I have built rigs capable of being overclocked, but never did crank them up.