Do you OverClock?
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Do you OverClock?
Do you OverClock? If so, do you really think it helps your Chess Analysis?
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Ted Summers
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Re: Do you OverClock?
Well, of course it helps. Your gains are proportional to your overclock.
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Re: Do you OverClock?
Ted ... this seems like a trick question. Is it really overclocking if you buy a CPU from Intel that says Q6600 and is locked to run at 2.4 Ghz ... when the chip inside is absolutely identical to a chip that is sold at 3.0 Ghz ... except for a different multiplier lock that is. Intel has to sell CPU's following a marketing strategy ... that is they have to sell slow CPU's that cost very little, and then sell higher end CPU's for much more. You will get situations where the yields on the CPU's are so good that the cheapest CPU's will have to be "under clocked" to allow Intel to still keep their full range of CPU's. It is not often that this scenario happens ... but that is exactly the case today. I have never seen a Q6600 G0 that will not run at default voltages at 3 Ghz ... and Intel still sells the 3 Ghz CPU at 5 X the price. This seems to be changing though, with Intel realizing that it should look for a different marketing plan. I think they will have something new with Nehalem processors.
Ofcourse there is also the overclocking where you really try and take advantage of the margins that Intel or AMD put to increase speeds, by increasing voltages and reducing heat to get more out of your system. But I think that is a totally different thing than what is mentioned above.
Ofcourse there is also the overclocking where you really try and take advantage of the margins that Intel or AMD put to increase speeds, by increasing voltages and reducing heat to get more out of your system. But I think that is a totally different thing than what is mentioned above.