How much of an overclocker are you?

[0iD]

I overclock all my PC's, work & home, it's an addiction/affliction many here seem to 'suffer' with

[spazman]

My graphics card and CPU are overclocked, RAM and northbridge are standard.

[Paul Adams]

There should be an option for "used to OC, but not any more"

I used to be very keen on OC'ing everything in my system and downloading beta versions of drivers or service packs, and it used to be fun.
However I realised that in the real world the difference you gained was not noticeable most of the time, there is the risk of making something go bang, and invariably the systems become less stable.
(Admittedly I've never looked into super cooling or using thermal compound at £100/g )

I got tired of a system working fine during the cooler months, then forgetting all about OC'ing and finding weird glitches/lockups when it got towards summer!

Nowadays I rate things like stability, quietness, sound and picture quality over raw speed or getting an extra 1 "point" in 3DMarkXX.

[BlackSheep]

I don't know about the rest of you, but I feel cheated out of free performance if I'm not overclocking ... however, I never:

> overclock at a cost to stability
> overclock to compromise image quality

If the performance is there for free, and you have sufficient cooling and power to make use of it - why the hell not!?

[malfunction]

I'm in the nothing at stock category...

Main system: XP1700+ @ 2.1GHz (9.5 * 220 - needs 1.9V - Samsung PC3200 @ 220MHz too), Radeon 9800SE @ 420/365 (but it won't soft mod)

Firewall / various: Duron 1400 @ 1.75GHz (10.5 x 166 + Crucial PC2100 @ 166MHz (PC2700)). It can go higher but the shuttle it's in has a low CFM fan in it and I don't really want to cook it - plus no vcore settings (and I CBA to pin mod it at the mo!) and the RAM's only PC2100 so I'm not sure it will go much higher...

[pdug175]

what I usually do is buy parts to overclock, and before I stretch them end up replacing them for a better clocker.... which I never get round to putting through its paces.

[nakajima]

what I usually do is buy parts to overclock, and before I stretch them end up replacing them for a better clocker.... which I never get round to putting through its paces.

heheh...same here