CPU, GPU and RAM: What has been your biggest overclocking success so far?

The CPU, GPU, and main memory hardware components that are critical to a gaming PC’s performance can get even more performance with overclocking. What form of “OC” do you practice and what has been your biggest “success” in hardware overclocking so far in this context? Who is the OC king of the community?

Your greatest achievements in overclocking

In his own computing story, the current Sunday’s asker focused in particular on overclocking processors, here in particular Intel CPUs, as well as DDR, DDR2, DDR3, and DDR4 main memory. On the one hand, it is worth mentioning an Intel Pentium E2160 (“Conroe”), which worked for more than 10 years with a clock frequency of 3.2 instead of the factory 1.6 GHz and thus with a 100 percent overclocking, on the other hand, DDR4 memory in particular used bars throttled to speeds of 3,800 MT/s for AMD Ryzen.

As a general rule of thumb, the following five categories are still relevant today in the areas of overclocking and undervolting:

• CPU overclocking
• CPU undervoltage
• overclock gpu
• GPU undervoltage
• overclock ram

Achieving maximum performance or realizing maximum system efficiency is often the goal of overclocking, undervolting, or a combination of both.

Overclocking, undervolting or both?

Even gaming PCs with the latest hardware can be further optimized with the help of overclocking and undervolting, but are OC and UV still popular for you and really worth the effort?

Members of the ComputerBase forum community answered this question in April of this year, casting over 4,000 votes.

40 percent of readers optimize all important components and throttle CPU, GPU and main memory and reduce voltage equally. The single most overclocked component is the graphics card, which is known to deliver the highest gains and power savings in gaming and in the socket.

ComputerBase readers stated that in most cases they even use the symbiosis and efficiency of overclocking and undervolting and optimize their system in such a way that it can be operated close to the sweet spot at best.

What results were you able to achieve with OC/UV?

So, overclocking and undervolting are still actively practiced on the forum, but what successes have you been able to achieve in this regard? How high was your highest overclock and what savings could you achieve by undervolting the consumption values ​​of your components?

Editors will be delighted to hear your stories and anecdotes on this topic and will include the top five results in the areas of overclocking and undervolting, which must be documented with a screenshot, in a small Hall of Fame.

So give us your screenshots! Detailed field reports and information on the applications and tools used are also welcome.

The registration deadline to enter the Hall of Fame is next Wednesday, August 31, 2022.

Overclocking and Undervolting Hall of Fame

Top five overclocking results

Top five undervolting results

Participation is expressly desired

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• How do you see the current development of games?
• How and when did you first connect to the Internet?
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• Which architecture was more innovative: Zen or Core?
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• A week of Log4Shell, what did that mean to you?
• AMD Radeon or Nvidia GeForce for the next generation?
• ARM or x86, whose future belongs to servers and PCs?

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