Is Overclocking worth it?

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Hi all,

I'm building a new pc In about 2 weeks. The last decision I need to make is whether or not overlooking is worth it. I plan on using the Predator x34 over clocked to 100 hz and staying at 1440p. I'll also have a secondary 27" 1440p monitor.

Since my budget is $1500ish for the hardware, I'm planning on using a gtx 1080. Should I plan on over clocking the GPU? Is it easy to do?

Also, should I plan on getting a CPU that I can overclock? Will the performance be much better?

I over clocked my I7-950 a few years ago but I had some trouble. I'd like to decide if I'm over clocking before I buy the components this time.

Thanks!
 
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First off, you have to the PSU for it. If you scrimped on the PSU, then don't even think about tinkering further.
Next, overboosting a GPU can be get you a lot of extra performance. The Pascal chips seem to be very conservatively clocked from the factory. If you have the power budget and the case cooling capacity, then using afterburner, start ramping up the boost and adding speed to the memory, there's many places that have detailed instructions on said processess, so I'll refrain from going further on it.
Something else to keep in mind, if you ever plan on getting a second 1080, think about a water cooled card or the "founders edition", two GPUS blowing heat into a case is a lot of added heat, and it will probably cause...
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First off, you have to the PSU for it. If you scrimped on the PSU, then don't even think about tinkering further.
Next, overboosting a GPU can be get you a lot of extra performance. The Pascal chips seem to be very conservatively clocked from the factory. If you have the power budget and the case cooling capacity, then using afterburner, start ramping up the boost and adding speed to the memory, there's many places that have detailed instructions on said processess, so I'll refrain from going further on it.
Something else to keep in mind, if you ever plan on getting a second 1080, think about a water cooled card or the "founders edition", two GPUS blowing heat into a case is a lot of added heat, and it will probably cause throttling on your hardware.
To get really good frame rates with that monitor will probably require you to overboost higher than stock on that GPU, it requires a lot of pixels to get widescreen 1440s to high framerates. I have dual 780tis(still a little faster than a single 1080) and I can't get to 96 fps on my Overlord Tempest playing modern titles.
 
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Is it worth it? Not really, usually you're only looking at a few FPS for the CPU and usually around 7-10 FPS more for the GPU. Of course that comes with a whole lot of heat usually. The exception to this would be an extremely cpu dependent game like ArmA 3 for the cpu overclocking, since that game cares less about the GPU and more about CPU clock speed.
 
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