Is there a difference to overclock on different windows operating systems ?
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blockhead78
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there might be some marginal differences due to different processes running on Win 10 that wouldn't have been there in Win 7, but the OC results should, at the very least, be very similar
Mightyena
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There shouldn't be much of a difference, if any really, although the reason why depends what you're overclocking:
If it's a GPU, then no - The OC will be controlled through afterburner or the like, and shouldn't be affected by what OS you run, at least nothing noticeable, there might be a tiny difference in max OC potential due to OS configuration or running services.
If it's a CPU, you should probably be using the BIOS anyway.
If it's a GPU, then no - The OC will be controlled through afterburner or the like, and shouldn't be affected by what OS you run, at least nothing noticeable, there might be a tiny difference in max OC potential due to OS configuration or running services.
If it's a CPU, you should probably be using the BIOS anyway.
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An overclock as such, has nothing to do with the OS, overclocking is the same process as what happens to a stock cpu on boot, just faster. The OS loads later. That said, there are parts of the OS that can affect an OS, such as windows power settings, sleep settings etc as those will override any bios settings, thereby screwing up the OC. But realistically you don't need an OS at all to OC, it's just handy to have one for tedting/stability purposes.
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...Assuming they used the BIOS to OC, and not one of those "Motherboard Enhanced Tweaker Suite" things, since those do interact with the OS, and could theoretically cause some sort of weird interaction between the OC software and the OS that affects OC stability - one of the reasons I tend to advise against their use
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True, but I personally don't consider than an overclock as such, it's more of a half-a(what you are sitting on)ssed performance enhancement that does nothing but make for instability with any enhanced speeds as it also changes BCLK, messing with all sorts of communications interior to the pc components.
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