Overclocking: Is It Worth It?

Is overclocking the right choice for you? This introductory look into the world of overclocking shows our results across 5 different benchmarks when tuning up our AMD FX 8320e processor and Radeon R9 390 graphics card.

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[Gazereths]

Hey Matt thanks for showing my build off :) That was a shot in the arm.

[aquaprofile]

really liking the quality improvements

[jessel]

I have an 8320 Vishera overclocked from stock 3.5 to 4.420 ghz stable. I can't really say the benefits are worth the time to learn if someone doesn't know anything about computers and goes into it blind, but if you have done it for years like myself, an hour or so of time is worth knowing that you have overclocked your CPU to brag about it even if the performance increase isn't earth shattering. Just my two shiny pennies.

[Owesome]

You should be growing your subscriber and viewer base really quick with this kind of content!

[GeekLearner]

which CPU cooler are you using ? mind sharing temp readings ?

[alecmanning]

I OCed my friends 8350 to 5ghz. Preformed pretty good. I needed a h110 gtx and fan on the chipset to keep it cool though.

[jotabe]

well, this seems to show why i picked up an 8350 above the 8320e... despite the extra cost, i managed to reach 4.4ghz with no mayor efford and i could have gone for 4.5 or even 4.6... but what i did for real is stay at stock speeds... these days an 8350 its at the recc. cpu for amd on every modern game. so i need no cpu overclock as a "must"... maybe in one year or two the Fx 8350/8370 will need to be Oc'ed, but today thats only needed for fx8300, fx8320, fx8320e which will mostly reach termal barrier before 4.5 ghz.
i get that the cost gap will allow to buy a 8320e+hyper 212 evo instead of 8350, but on the other hand a 8350 w/wraith cooler will do just fine for maybe 1 year before the time an aftermarket cooler (and overclock) will be even needed...

[marioandresjara]

Can i overclock mi Fx 8320e to 4.4??? mi rig: Gx 750w, Gtx 970 ftw, Coolermaster V6 GT. M5a97 R2.0. greetings

[yutengma]

Fx 4300 on a sub par 4+1 phase board to 4.6 ghz at 1.4v
HD 7970 from 925/1425 to 1185/1670

[knightx]

I overclocked my fx 8320e up to 4.5 stable with a stupidly high voltage lol 1.52 to make it stable for an hour of stress bench :D. but yeah the sweet spot for me at 4.3

[dialecticalmonist]

I saw almost no correlation to the benchmarks he was showing us and what he was saying about them.

For example, the single core overclock was almost double (54 to 103) and the multicore overclock was about a quarter improvement (510 to 683), yet he said the multi-core was far more impressive?

[janszucs]

Could You Show how You overclock an apu (with Performancegains)?

[Arlyon]

What's your opinion on a 4770k @ 4.8 GHz performance wise?

[Rapscallion]

the improvements seem to be in the region of ten percent, or less.

I'm not entirely convinced about it being "Free", because the stock speeds don't require an upgraded cooler, so including it in that price is a bit odd. Nevertheless coolers aren't expensive, so for the investment, 10 percent isn't bad.

Although. what happens to boost clocks when you overclock?

hnm

[lukashampel]

I just watched your "sleeper PC" video... and if you're planning to build another one in the future you should go for uncooled ram (without aluminum covers) and to the bare minimum of cablemanagment (meaning to NOT get them behind the motherboard... just connecting everything and stuff all the cables inside the 5.25 bays) and you need at least one of those akward yellow DVDdrives... I wish I could put a picture right below this comment that shows my PC...
AMD FX-8120 CPU @3.7GHz (with the annoying old and loud stockcooler)
32gb of G.Skill RAM (1800MHz)
ASRock xtreme-3 Motherboard
R9 280X from gigabyte
Asus HD 6570 (2GB GDDR3 for my second monitor)
Corsair 850W "CS850M" PSU
and last but not least a wierd yellow DVD-drive

[marcos]

+Tech Tested That is strange, only 4.3GHz? What motherboard are you using? it should do 4.5GHz easily

[Cher]

Haha i still got an Intel Core 2 Duo 6600 ^^ It's OC from Stock 2.44 ghz to 3.38 ghz

[forestR]

graphs are useless if they aren't to scale [4 x vastly different length bars demonstrating almost identical numbers] start you graphs at zero - if the results are within a margin of error the bars should look about the same too

[rainbowbunchie]

Those graphics overclocks.... My R9 280 overclocks stable to 1.2Ghz, with up to 1.7Ghz on the RAM. (I say stable, but in certain tasks there a minor issues. Lowering clock by 50 mhz fixes this.)
I'm not sure if I won the silicon lottery, or the GPU he was overclocking was the lowest binned chip that could still be used in that card. 0_o

[sudd]

oc adds heat, heat adds noise. dont forget that.