How do you overclock?

[boogerlad]

was that directed to me?

[Mkilbride]

Yeah, it was. He's saying you're an idiot. You could buy an inferior model for 250$, 1/4th the price of yours, and Over-clock it to your Speeds, and it'd still last 7 or so years...at one forth the price. That is, of course, if you don't play to OC. The only reason ANYONE buys the 1000$ CPU's these days is to OVERCLOCK THEM TO INSANE SPEEDS. Like the New 8-cored CPU from Intel, someone OC'ed it to 5.6GHZ on Water-cooling and it's stable. I mean god damned, the one you bought is MADE for Over-clocking. TO not Over-clock it means you've WASTED your money.

I bought a 2.4GHZ Q6600 for 190$ almost two years ago, I OC'ed it to 3.4GHZ. In almost all applications, it'll perform the same as your 1000$ one. I mean sure, you'll get higher FPS and performance, but not enough to justify 800$ more? It'll be like 10-20FPS MAX, that is, of course if the i7 gets some of the fixes it needs, and games / programs take full use of it.

Really, those who buy 1000$ CPU's and don't over-clock them know nothing about computers. They're that expensive so that you CAN over-clock them.(Built / designed to be OC'ed.)

5.6GHZ 8-Core CPU, that'll probably last 5 or so years, easily. That's being generous with my prediction, too. ;P

Yours is nothing special at stock clock. Hit maybe 4.2GHZ or 4.5GHZ and then possibly you'll be justified for spending 1000$ on a Xtreme CPU.

[boogerlad]

umm, I was saying that he was an idiot. Extreme series are pretty pointless because you can just oc them. I don't think you read my post properly. I do get cheap cpus and destroy the 1000$ cpus. People that have 1000 dollar cpus that are not overclocked are idiots.

hmm, maybe a bit too harsh. Krypking is the exception. He's cool =)

As I was saying, if you overclock a normal cpu that is the same uarch, then it'll perform the same as the extreme counterpart.

example: i7 920 at 3.2 will equal i7 965 at stock speeds of 3.2ghz

i7 920 at 4 will destroy i7 965.

i7 965 will overclock slightly further (100-200mhz) when under ln2 and dice

Are we okay now?

[THELUKESTIR]

(07-26-2009, 09:12 AM)boogerlad Wrote: umm, I was saying that he was an idiot. Extreme series are pretty pointless because you can just oc them. I don't think you read my post properly. I do get cheap cpus and destroy the 1000$ cpus. People that have 1000 dollar cpus that are not overclocked are idiots.

dont hate, krypking is cool, he just needs to realize a 3.2ghz cpu wont last him long, even overclocked, and buying a 200 dollar cpu every 2 years is the same as buying a 1000 cpu every ten

[boogerlad]

(07-26-2009, 09:14 AM)THELUKESTIR Wrote:

(07-26-2009, 09:12 AM)boogerlad Wrote: umm, I was saying that he was an idiot. Extreme series are pretty pointless because you can just oc them. I don't think you read my post properly. I do get cheap cpus and destroy the 1000$ cpus. People that have 1000 dollar cpus that are not overclocked are idiots.

dont hate, krypking is cool, he just needs to realize a 3.2ghz cpu wont last him long, even overclocked, and buying a 200 dollar cpu every 2 years is the BETTER as buying a 1000 cpu every ten

Fixed.

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(07-26-2009, 08:13 AM)Mkilbride Wrote: Yeah, it was. He's saying you're an idiot. You could buy an inferior model for 250$, 1/4th the price of yours, and Over-clock it to your Speeds, and it'd still last 7 or so years...at one forth the price. That is, of course, if you don't play to OC. The only reason ANYONE buys the 1000$ CPU's these days is to OVERCLOCK THEM TO INSANE SPEEDS. Like the New 8-cored CPU from Intel, someone OC'ed it to 5.6GHZ on Water-cooling and it's stable. I mean god damned, the one you bought is MADE for Over-clocking. TO not Over-clock it means you've WASTED your money.

I bought a 2.4GHZ Q6600 for 190$ almost two years ago, I OC'ed it to 3.4GHZ. In almost all applications, it'll perform the same as your 1000$ one. I mean sure, you'll get higher FPS and performance, but not enough to justify 800$ more? It'll be like 10-20FPS MAX, that is, of course if the i7 gets some of the fixes it needs, and games / programs take full use of it.

Really, those who buy 1000$ CPU's and don't over-clock them know nothing about computers. They're that expensive so that you CAN over-clock them.(Built / designed to be OC'ed.)

5.6GHZ 8-Core CPU, that'll probably last 5 or so years, easily. That's being generous with my prediction, too. ;P

Yours is nothing special at stock clock. Hit maybe 4.2GHZ or 4.5GHZ and then possibly you'll be justified for spending 1000$ on a Xtreme CPU.

btw, I will never get an extreme series cpu. I'm fine with my lower end products. There is no 5.6ghz 8 core at watercooling. Your probably talking about fugger and his cherry picked nehalem at 5.6ghz with ln2. Ht on, 4 real cores.