I was under the impression the conversation had transitioned to overclocking in general. I'll quote myself from a few posts agoQuote from: Punk_FAS on July 30, 2010, 06:46:06 PMQuote from: VaeVictis on July 30, 2010, 06:41:09 PMgetting a dedicated graphics card would really be the safer and better solutionI agree =)I was agreeing with you that for Alpha's situation, his top priority would be to ditch the onboard graphics for a real GPU. My other comments are addressing overclocking in general, and a commonly held, but in my opinion naive attitude about how all overclocking is viewed asTHE DEVIL
Quote from: VaeVictis on July 30, 2010, 06:41:09 PMgetting a dedicated graphics card would really be the safer and better solutionI agree =)
getting a dedicated graphics card would really be the safer and better solution
Quote from: Punk_FAS on August 01, 2010, 10:03:51 PMI was under the impression the conversation had transitioned to overclocking in general. I'll quote myself from a few posts agoQuote from: Punk_FAS on July 30, 2010, 06:46:06 PMQuote from: VaeVictis on July 30, 2010, 06:41:09 PMgetting a dedicated graphics card would really be the safer and better solutionI agree =)I was agreeing with you that for Alpha's situation, his top priority would be to ditch the onboard graphics for a real GPU. My other comments are addressing overclocking in general, and a commonly held, but in my opinion naive attitude about how all overclocking is viewed asTHE DEVIL its not viewed as the devil, but at the current time with current hardware on the market it isnt neededim running a 3ghz quad core that will burn through anything i throw at it easily... why would i need to make it a 3.6 quad core that would burn through everything i throw at it equally as good... at stock clocks i get to keep a low voltage, low temps, and have a longer life of my processor
Alpha's words are a little confusing. He states he wants more performance, but Quake 2 runs fine, but his machine won't play new games, but he only plays Quake 2 anyway. So why is he upgrading? I'm assuming he would like to toy around with some of these newer games that don't run so well.Where do you live Alpha?This would be a GREAT deal, but I think you're in the UK or something?http://slickdeals.net/forums/showthread.php?sduid=258530&t=2155310I'm not sure if Newegg ships to the UK, or if the prices would be the same.
Quote from: VaeVictis on August 01, 2010, 10:11:58 PMQuote from: Punk_FAS on August 01, 2010, 10:03:51 PMI was under the impression the conversation had transitioned to overclocking in general. I'll quote myself from a few posts agoQuote from: Punk_FAS on July 30, 2010, 06:46:06 PMQuote from: VaeVictis on July 30, 2010, 06:41:09 PMgetting a dedicated graphics card would really be the safer and better solutionI agree =)I was agreeing with you that for Alpha's situation, his top priority would be to ditch the onboard graphics for a real GPU. My other comments are addressing overclocking in general, and a commonly held, but in my opinion naive attitude about how all overclocking is viewed asTHE DEVIL its not viewed as the devil, but at the current time with current hardware on the market it isnt neededim running a 3ghz quad core that will burn through anything i throw at it easily... why would i need to make it a 3.6 quad core that would burn through everything i throw at it equally as good... at stock clocks i get to keep a low voltage, low temps, and have a longer life of my processor If you're just using your computer for entertainment purposes (like myself and a lot of other people) then OC'ng isn't really all that necessary nowadays, like you said. Especially if you have a 3+ GHz quad-core. Some encoding/decoding, photoshop, or other programs still require a huge hunk of processing power, so a ~25% boost in performance could definitely make a noticeable difference, especially if the encoding you're doing is already taking many minutes or over an hour to complete. If you're already running 60+ FPS in a game though, you're unlikely to really see the difference another 15 FPS would make.