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Overclocking: how good are auto-overclocking programs?
Thirith
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Earlier this year, I bought a PC with a 9900k CPU, an ASUS ROG STRIX Z390-F GAMING motherboard and a Gainward GeForce RTX 2080 Ti. From what I've read, I should be able to overclock both CPU and GPU, but overclocking is something I've hesitated to do, mainly because my earlier attempts 5-10 years ago never really worked that well.
However, since these days there are apps that do the overclocking for you, I wanted to ask: are they worth using? Do they generally produce results that are both worthwhile and stable? And what auto-tuning programs would you recommend I use?
P.S.: I wasn't sure if this should go in the Technology Tavern instead. If so, let me know and I'll go and ask there.
However, since these days there are apps that do the overclocking for you, I wanted to ask: are they worth using? Do they generally produce results that are both worthwhile and stable? And what auto-tuning programs would you recommend I use?
P.S.: I wasn't sure if this should go in the Technology Tavern instead. If so, let me know and I'll go and ask there.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
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You should be able to just boot to your motherboard’s bios and fiddle with the CPU clock speeds there. It’s safe and easy since it will do all the work for you and if the system is unstable it will just reset to the previous stable setting or the default. I’d start there and see what you can get up to just for fun before investing the money and time it takes to push things further.
Because after that, you’ll be installing bigger and better cooling solutions then doing the overclock, followed by stress testing for quite some time until you’ve eeked out every last MHz you can because this stuff gets addictive.
So yeah, what’s the cooling situation you have now? The stock fan on the CPU and GPU? When you boot into the bios, does it give you the option to play with click speeds?
The 9900k has been out for a while; there are probably a lot of good guides you can read/watch on how to overclock it properly. I would suggest doing that.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
However there is also something else to consider. What do you want out of doing the overclocking, doing just because one can is a fine reason and a faster computer likewise. Only if it looks like your efforts will not really make a lot of different, since you are not really pushing the limits of your system in non-overclocked state then ask your self if it is really worth it. Ie. is having to spend time doing it, maybe even time testing an unstable system or worse damaging something if the gain is say 20% on top on what is plenty fast.
At times there are golden moments where overclocking brings a lot percentage wise. Like one time back in the day where I and others overclocked a CPU from 300 Mhz to 504 Mhz and thus making a mid-range PC faster than the fastest most expensive thing one could buy (and the cost was merely a piece of wire as stock cooling was sufficient). However overclocking rarely brings anything like that.
"Nothing is gonna save us forever but a lot of things can save us today." - Night in the Woods
Buy RAM with XMP then set the Bios to use the XMP settings. It’s essentially a pretested overclock.
Raytraceing is till mostly a novelty and lots of optimization is needed before there is hope of good frame rates, but of course every bit helps. I suspect it is only really the GPU overclocking that will impact on raytraceing, but as I am yet to take the plunge into that world I have no actual evidence to back that (I am holding out fro AMD to bring a new high end card).
This article on raytraceing, the impacts on performance and all might be helpful:
https://techspot.com/article/1934-the-state-of-ray-tracing/
I def squeezed a few more FPS out of Control through it
Doing it manually, messing with voltage and whatnot, is just as risky, but you can achieve mostly the same results with far less risk by buying components that are "designed" to be overclocked, and using tweaking it from the BIOS