imi wrote on 2021-03-15, 22:51:
Tetrium wrote on 2021-03-15, 22:34:
Don't get me wrong, I'm not anti-overclocking. The overclocking community has provided a lot of valuable info on old parts. But lets be real, overclocking 20 year old parts is hardly any practical use anyway.
the thing is overclocking nowadays is barely any practical use... but back then it was at times a big boost to old hardware and to save money, of course it doesn't make sense as such today because you can just go to a faster machine instead, but then again barely any of this does have any "pracitcal use", it's about reviving the past so I get it :p
I disagree. Overclocking is still about saving money and when some games are still limited by a 4th gen Octal-core i7 running at 4.5-4.6Ghz on all cores with quad channel DDR3-2400 you can only imagine how bad the CPU limitation was at the stock 3.5Ghz turbo on 1-core.
This is in The Division 2.
Overclocking from stock makes a pretty big difference.
As for moving to a faster platform... yeah, but what if I don't have the money or don't want to spend the money to upgrade to an even higher system... Though I am running a 5th gen instead of a 4th gen now.
To upgrade to a faster system with enough PCIe lanes for what I need, I would have to go with a Threadripper system.. or an Intel setup that isn't even available yet and the motherboard alone would cost $999.