You can also do it here, you know. It will be interesting to see the results.
Also, add one extra answer.
Why i do overclock? Because i can't afford to buy a better CPU/GPU.
I'll share the Spreadsheet
I do before and after benchmarks to test the benefits of overclocking. I tweak everything to the max (just for fun), then I back off a notch for longevity and stability. My i5-4690K can go to 4.5Ghz but I have it running at 4.4 now, because under load 4.5 gets really hot. I do 3D engineering solid modeling and rendering that benefits from every Mhz I can get. I also o/c my RAM.
I don't bother with GPU o/c because in the past I usually found the gains are only a few FPS. I guess it depends on the card, I'm sure some of you get awesome GPU o/c's. I bought a factory o/c GPU to avoid the hassle. I tried to o/c it anyway (because:Science!) but the GPU thermal throttles back to stock under load, so I don't use my o/c settings.
I usually only overclock my CPU. I've done some GPU overclocking but it usually leads to more stability issues during game play. Some games chug along and take advantage of every bit of speed that a person can squeeze out of a gpu but others crash and burn on the same overclock. I have a couple of Fury cards right now and they don't have much overclocking head room anyway so it's not worth messing with. My CPU and GPU's are in a custom water cooling loop so I don't have any issues with thermal throttling. It usually comes down to how much voltage the VRM's on the motherboard and gpu's can handle.
I heard the fury cards are nearly maxed from factory, as far as clocks go.
I have 2 different gpu oc profiles saved in afterburner and switch between them when I play a game I know is unstable with the higher one.
On my a10 7850k I OC the iGOU to 960mhz for a 10 to 15% increase in starswarm.
8320e w/ stock cooler with refurb reference 770 I use the MB press D for OC option.
I am one lazy individual:)
Back when I had a Q6600 every increase in clock speed I could squeeze out of it translated in to a meaningful difference in how well Crysis ran. That was fun. After that I got a i7 960 (still using it) which I overclocked to 4.2ghz pretty much out of habit, I don't think I've ever actually ran it at stock so I don't know if it's worthwhile or not.
I'm thinking long term stable overclocks were more viable back in the day because of the larger manufacturing process they had back then, the ASIC Quality was less important and having smaller transistors could make overclocks less stable on newer parts.
I usually leave my CPUs on stock speed until I notice that I regularly hit their limit. At that point I'll start overclocking.
My old i5-2500 ran 2 years at stock speed and 3 years with OC (4.1GHz, the furthest it would go).
If that's anything to go by, my current 5930K will be on stock speed for another 18 months or so.
the X99 chips overclock to 4.5ghz @1.3v no hassle fyi.
0 stability issues when just doing a ratio OC.
I overclock my overclocks till my overclocks have overclocks on their overclocks
Here's the Spreadsheet results. It's hard to filter the "Other" https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1lK7IqOnoxkdQqp6rB1Cc30RKmfQvG9lR-N32M18pB10/edit?usp=sharing
2 increase the value of my parts
so I don't have to upgrade them quite as often
and also because I like seeing higher numbers
i5-2500k cpu goes up to 5.1ghz
I have a 4770k, z87 board, and appropriate 16GB 2400 ram. And I don't overclock at all. I don't game enough for it to matter. It is probably sacrilege in this forum. I got the 4770k on an employee deal for $100 so I suspect it is a low bin.
Have a 5820k OC'd to 4.5 Ghz and my RAM at 2600Mhz I do transcodes and large compiles so everything helps. My two 390xs are midly OC'd as well because why not?
haha thats my system, just ram at 2400mhz because cheap and sadly my 390x's one of them will OC to about 1160 before artifacting wher ethe other can't go past 1080 :(
Mine was 2400 but I OC'd it 2600.
I have never OC'd ram and it seems theirs allot of variables to play with, too much for me to really bother trying to find perfect stability
I do relatively conservative over clocks. I got the 8370 with a corsair h80i v2 cooler running at 4.5 ghz. As for why, I like a little extra processing overhead for those spike moments when its running hard on things like Ashes or other newer games or similar heavy processing (not something i usually do anyways). Same thing for my GPU, but RAM yeah too much headache to get that tiny extra boost. I just bought kingston at an 1866 freq and im happy, the only thing i need is a decent ssd for cache/os/key programs.