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My 2 years old desktop CPU overclocked at 5GHz is faster than anything on the market, last two CPU generations can not reach such performance. That's a fairly
by jiggy2011 14y ago
My 2 years old desktop CPU overclocked at 5GHz is faster than anything on the market, last two CPU generations can not reach such performance.
That's a fairly extreme overclock! I imagine you must be able to get some impressive results from a modern i7 with the right cooling though?
I remember when overclocking was a thing that anybody into PC gaming did for economical reasons, these days it hardly seems worth the effort of fiddling around in the bios menu.
- qwerta 14y agoCooling is regular Antec H2O 920, it fits into case without any problem. It took about 3 hours to assemble and overclock, I just followed manual. It runs 24/7, I do number crunching and Scala developing (slow compiler). Intel does not bother soldering heatsink into chip anymore (saves 50 cents). So newer CPU can not be overclocked without disassembling and replacing some parts. Results are not bad, but in reality it is just 30% speedup.