How important is overclocking?

Ztdutxjgxgtu · Jul 10, 2018

Its always been great to unleash fuul power of components, cpu, gpu...

For new powerful snappy systems, even +10%, you may not know the difference at all.

But for old system , or 5 years later where programs become more demanding. At a point where the component is a bottleneck.
The magnitude of demanding program is aleays way greater than a few fps gain.

I dont think overclocking can improve the situation.
I tried oc gt9800x2, died so soon, same performance.
Oc i5 cpu, no difference seen.

What do you think?

thx1138v2 · Jul 10, 2018

IMO, the most important thing to do with overclocking is to fully read and understand the associated disclaimers.

I agree that about the only place anyone will see a real difference is in benchmarking tools.

Bentheball1 · Jul 10, 2018

i overclocked my ryzen 3 1200 from 3.1ghz to 3.8ghz. I noticed a slight difference in FPS in games like just cause 3 and fortnite.

drea.drechsler · Jul 10, 2018

Ztdutxjgxgtu :

I overclocked my R7-1700 to 3.9G, all cores and threads, and it will complete a (typical) video encoding about 2 min's sooner: 18 min's instead of 20. Not a great big deal, in the scheme of things: I still have only just enough time to go make a cup of coffee. In all things else it's only just as snappy feeling. Even games are no faster or smoother feeling even though it scores slightly higher FPS in the same scenes.

The real benefit is that I learned a massive lot about my system and how it (Ryzen) works. I learned why cooling is important and even how to do it without the noise. I learned you have to optimize memory too to reap full performance of Ryzen.

I also learned that there is a lot of margin left in hardware, by design, as it's sold. It's left there for a variety of reasons: manufacturing margin, market segmentation, mfg. process improvement through time, etc. But then I knew that since I've overclocked before, and I'll do it again. In fact, I feel the only bad computer purchase I ever made was a locked Intel system that couldn't be overclocked. Even if the gains would have been small it was frustrating to not know I had the system, for which I'd paid a lot of money, fully optimized for my use-age.

Ztdutxjgxgtu · Jul 10, 2018

I got a r7 1700 too,
Clocked to 3.8g, ~75 to 80c
On paper it performes like 1800x.
Emotionly, i feel good.
But still it just feel hotter in summer, clock back to stock.
I do render, ps3 emu by the way

drea.drechsler · Jul 11, 2018

Ztdutxjgxgtu :

Probably a little off-topic....

Better cooling would help a lot since 3.8G isn't a 'big' OC, but you already figured that out I imagine.

In case it hadn't occurred to you: even a VERY MILD overclock setting, to 3.7 or 3.6G only, may help when performing a task that loads all cores/threads such as encoding or rendering. This because now it will hold that frequency 'all-core' whereas 'stock' it will clock cores back as necessary to stay within the processor's TDP.

But it won't help much if at all on typical tasks like browsing, navigating windows. Not even games, which use no more than a couple threads, would benefit so it would be better to leave it 'stock' and allow single threads at least to boost to 3.7 or 3.75G. But even then only if you have adequate cooling: if it's running hot on a stock (I assume) cooler in a hot room it will stop boosting even at stock frequency settings.

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