I wouldn't even begin to describe myself as an enthusiast, so I'm a little out of my element here...but I just watched the 3 part series "Scrapyard Wars" on LinusTechTips YouTube channel. The premise was two guys who only had $300 had to build the best gaming PC they could, and then got to tune/OC the machine, and whoever got the higher benchmarks "won" the contest.
I was blown away by the results. Linus won the competition, which included benchmark tests like 3D Mark Fire Strike, and Dirt 3 & Tomb Raider @ 1080p, with a Q6600 Core 2, 8 GB of standard DDR3 RAM, and (iirc) a Radeon 7950. He averaged something like 65 FPS, and maxed out at almost 90 FPS. He had some crashes, but they didn't really cover why those happened. In the end, though, he was able to get through the full tests with stability.
I guess I just never realized how powerful overclocking could be. There was an emphasis on the fact that both guys overclocked several elements of their system (and were able to secure the cooling parts required to sustain that), almost as if that was the basis of their success. For me, it makes me wonder just how powerful my own system could be if I learned about how to OC in a safe and smart manner...I currently run an i5-4670, w/ 12 GB of DDR3 1600 RAM and a GeForce GTX 770 w/ 2GB RAM...rather than go out and buy new components as I feel mine start to get dated, seems much more logical to OC, if the results can really be that potent.
I was blown away by the results. Linus won the competition, which included benchmark tests like 3D Mark Fire Strike, and Dirt 3 & Tomb Raider @ 1080p, with a Q6600 Core 2, 8 GB of standard DDR3 RAM, and (iirc) a Radeon 7950. He averaged something like 65 FPS, and maxed out at almost 90 FPS. He had some crashes, but they didn't really cover why those happened. In the end, though, he was able to get through the full tests with stability.
I guess I just never realized how powerful overclocking could be. There was an emphasis on the fact that both guys overclocked several elements of their system (and were able to secure the cooling parts required to sustain that), almost as if that was the basis of their success. For me, it makes me wonder just how powerful my own system could be if I learned about how to OC in a safe and smart manner...I currently run an i5-4670, w/ 12 GB of DDR3 1600 RAM and a GeForce GTX 770 w/ 2GB RAM...rather than go out and buy new components as I feel mine start to get dated, seems much more logical to OC, if the results can really be that potent.
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