Overclocking in 2025, do you do it?

[dxchase]

Do you spend a lot of time messing with how hard you can run your GPU/CPU/NVM.E etc? How often?

Personally, not much anymore, GPU wise. I used to do this heavily up until the coming months before i got a 4080super but havent done so outside of basic OC windows (using the hidden "ultimate" performance option etc.) settings and MOBO settings but thats really it. DLSS options usually do a good job giving me good frames.

Recently started to though after i saw a beta version of MSI afterburner worked better with 40xx and 50xx series but i honestly dont see much improvement, at least to keep taxing my card all the time worth

 

[Kaamos_Llama]

Not anymore. Before I had a kid I had much more time on my hands and had fun with 3D Mark and other benchmarks, but these days I'm just running stock and I like my rig to be as quiet as possible.

 

[BeardyHat]

I did a couple of years ago with a laptop that had a dedicated MX150. Managed to get a pretty mild OC on the clock speed and a significant bump on the RAM.

Think I ended up picking up about 10fps in a few games.. It was worth it to spend the time on it. But otherwise, everything I own now is fast enough that it doesn't really matter. I'm pretty happy to just turn down settings and stuff these days.

 

[Alm]

I tried it twice I think, ever. Then decided it wasn't worth the risk to system stability.

 

[neogunhero]

Do you spend a lot of time messing with how hard you can run your GPU/CPU/NVM.E etc? How often?

Not much these days, I just don't like having to run stability tests. Ryzen CPUs have PBO in the Ryzen Master program, essentially a one-click OC solution. It seemed to reduce microstutter in some games for me, but I didn't run comprehensive tests to confirm. It was running my CPU at nearly 70c in the Skate closed playtest, after turning it off it went back down to around 45c. It never got that hot in other games with PBO turned on, but definitely did run hotter than with it turned off. The temp increase for such a minor performance boost was not worth it in my eyes.

MSI Afterburner also has an Auto OC button, but even with that I don't see much of an increase. It could be placebo, but it seems maybe the game is a bit smoother, less microstutters, but not worth the temp increase again. I just don't want to bother with manually OCing them.


XMP is a given, that should be enabled by everyone. Most times BIOS already has stable timings as default, no need to configure it beyond turning it on.

(using the hidden "ultimate" performance option etc.)

I enable this as well, though I have no idea if it really does anything for gaming performance compared to the standard High Performance setting.

 

[Pifanjr]

When I installed our newest, second-hand PC I took a look at the BIOS settings and pressed a button to automatically configure the best options for my machine. One restart later and my brand new PC wasn't giving any video output or responding to any keyboard commands any more.

Luckily I was able to reset the BIOS by removing the battery from the motherboard (and promptly dropping it in the case behind the PSU housing, forcing me to remove the PSU to retrieve the battery). After that I lost my nerve to mess with it any more. The only thing I did change was setting the RAM to 3200 MHz.

 

[dxchase]

One thing i did discover while taking a quick jaunt into overclocking that my bios was out of date by...well im unable to admit it lol but i got it updated