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Hi all, thought I would post this thread, its purely opinion based, no need for debate here, just wanted to get peoples tips and techniques for getting the most out of thier systems.
One thing I want to know from the vets, do you find that a burn in before overclocking nets better results? e.g. you get a new CPU, do you overclock right away? or do you burn in with prime for a week or so before making any attempts.
Also, for the people running better than air, do you overclock on air first to see what it is capable of? or do you equip the better cooling immediatly and go for it.
Lately I have had a lemon CPU and don't know if I should have burned in before overclocking or not, it will not run stable with any kind of OC, extra volts, better cooling etc make no difference.
I normally dive straight in to the overclocking, but find that with the new systems being able to drop multiplier enables me to test other parts of the system first, such as memory speeds, which is great, so thats how I do it, cpu is last to OC.
Also I find that the better the PSU the better you are able to overclock, shaky voltage will always affect your OC.
One thing I want to know from the vets, do you find that a burn in before overclocking nets better results? e.g. you get a new CPU, do you overclock right away? or do you burn in with prime for a week or so before making any attempts.
Also, for the people running better than air, do you overclock on air first to see what it is capable of? or do you equip the better cooling immediatly and go for it.
Lately I have had a lemon CPU and don't know if I should have burned in before overclocking or not, it will not run stable with any kind of OC, extra volts, better cooling etc make no difference.
I normally dive straight in to the overclocking, but find that with the new systems being able to drop multiplier enables me to test other parts of the system first, such as memory speeds, which is great, so thats how I do it, cpu is last to OC.
Also I find that the better the PSU the better you are able to overclock, shaky voltage will always affect your OC.
