What's the point of overclocking when, most of the time, the money you spend on a fancier board and bigger cooler could simply be spent on a faster processor in the first place? I have an R7 2700 non x that I got on sale for $225, and I'm wondering whether it's even worth it to shell out an extra $50 for a cooler that will allow it to get to 4.2 GHz, especially when the TDP reportedly goes from 65w to 180w.
Is Overclocking a Même?
Aiden Richardson
Colton Roberts
It's the computer equivalent of the guy who takes an old Honda Civic, strips everything out of it and puts a monster engine in it. He's not really accomplishing anything significant by making that car go 180 mph, but it's something to do and it makes him happy so whatever. I haven't overclocked anything since I was a teen in the 90's because that was the last time someone else bought me a computer, and I'd rather wait 3 extra picoseconds for my web browser to open than risk fucking up my hardware and losing money for the sake of vanity over a nice benchmark. Whether they are willing to admit it or not very few people benefit in any tangible way from overclocking, then ones benefiting probably operating in very niche roles like rendering large video files, intensive scientific calculations, stuff like that.
come at me nerds I don't give a fuck
Jeremiah Lewis
the only actual reason is single core performance
that said you can overclock 2600 even on shitty cheap boards easily so why not
Parker James
Because you can get a 2600x for $20 more and it will perform as good or better than your OC'd 2600 without you having to worry about voltage and fucking your shit up.
Jaxon Turner
you're literally wrong
non x has better value than x, even if you don't oc
Michael Jenkins
It made more sense when chips were pushing the limit of performance instead of trying to conserve as much energy as possible because we weren't able to scale switching voltage down with transistor area.
Dominic Watson
Yes.
Austin Gonzalez
Clock boost tech like Intel's max boost and AMD's precision boost have made OC all but irrelevant. They are already able to boost nearly to the limits of most cooling solutions and you will rarely get more out of them without spending hundreds of dollars on a custom water loop, and at that point it's all just vanity and dickwaving anyway.
Evan Cooper
I think it's ok to overclock really old crap. I did it to a 775 Pentium I had, I was a nice boost for a really expendable chip I had laying around
Oliver Cruz
The X will be better binned and will be clocked higher at stock, meaning it starts at a higher clock and will reach higher clocks when OC'd, and with Precision Boost both chips are likely going to get close to whatever the cooling solution allows in terms of stable clocks anyway.