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Quake / Re: looking to upgrade
« on: August 01, 2010, 08:02:30 PM »like vae said & i said (and you said we're wrong, but you just stated the same thing), not worth it. Nothing to do with lazyness.
I was implying that if someone makes the decision to overclock a CPU, but is too lazy to do the little bit of research necessary to do things properly/safely, then it's likely things will go awry. I'm not saying everyone should overclock their CPU just because they can. I mentioned earlier that I could probably push my current CPU more, but I haven't encountered a situation where it's necessary.
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Has to do with not putting a v10 in your taurus just because you CAN.
This is more akin to reprogramming the onboard computer on your Taurus for free and getting a noticeable boost in performance from the same engine.
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"mild to medium overclocking" isn't worth it ....... Wait six months @ buy something 5x faster then what you got for 1/2 the price it was when you wanted to OC & you'll get 25fps more in D3 & an hour off that render. and you wouldn't of wasted days "tweaking" something that had nothing wrong in the first place.
Lots of major exaggeration going on here. First off, I think of mild to medium overclocking as a ~25% overclock. 25% improved performance can easily equal or surpass a full generation change for CPU's. CPU's don't come anywhere close to 5x, or even 2x the performance of a 6 month old chip. Not even +50%, and if it's +25% that's a rare scenario.
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If you're doing "serious" overclocking then, odds are, it's not worth it either: buy that extra customizable MB for $300, the high speed ram for $300, the easily overclocked CPU for $1000. Or buy the plain jane MB for $80. Buy the normal speed ram for $125. Buy the faster but not OC-able CPU for $500.
More gross exaggerations. Sure, you can buy the bleeding edge highest end products for a ridiculous amount of money, but that in many ways defeats one of the main advantages/purposes of overclocking: value. I spent approx $120 on my motherboard, $180 on my CPU, and maybe $50 on my RAM. They all overclock quite well, but none of these items are considered on the elite end of the OC'ng spectrum. I actually SAVED money by overclocking. That's the whole point. FREE performance. Buy cheap, overclock it because manufacturers have to sell things at speeds that are GUARANTEED to work over the entire product spectrum, and reap the rewards at no additional cost.
It sounds like you're rehashing a lot of misinformation, or have just read the wrong doomsday articles on why overclocking is bad. Perhaps memos by Intel, who of course doesn't want you to get comparable performance out of their $100 CPU, by overclocking, as you would from their $500 CPU.