Is Overclocking Over? 405
MrSeb writes "Earlier this week, an ExtremeTech writer received a press release from a Romanian overclocking team that smashed a few overclocking records, including pushing Kingston's HyperX DDR3 memory to an incredible 3600MHz (at CL10). The Lab501 team did this, and their other record breakers, with the aid of liquid nitrogen which cooled the RAM down to a frosty -196C. That certainly qualifies as extreme, but is it news? Ten years ago, overclocking memory involved a certain amount of investigation, research, and risk, but in these days of super-fast RAM and manufacturer's warranties it seems a less intoxicating prospect. As it becomes increasingly difficult to justify what a person should overclock for, has the enthusiast passion for overclocking cooled off?"
First post! (Score:5, Funny)
Why? Because I've overc locked, so I'm faster than y'all!
Overlocking was only ever a dick waving contest... (Score:2, Funny)
... between a tiny bunch of geeks who had more money than sense. Someone should have told them that if they really wanted to play their first person shooter faster they should overclock the graphics card, not waste time on the CPU.
Yeah , I 'll get modded down for offending the high priest overclockers who read this, but really, if you spend 1000s on a special cooling system for your CPU just so it runs 25% faster so you can get even more unnoticable frames per second you really need to get out more.
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
That's why you should have overclocked your battery too.
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
I overcock my
And that little slip right there says everything about the reasons for overclocking.
I bet you're the life and soul of a party (Score:5, Funny)
[Sultry babe walks up]
"Hello, and what do you do?"
[nasal voice]
"I compile distros all day. Yes, did you know that Slackware on average compiles 20% faster than Debian for 64 bit but if I overclock my Core i7 by raising power rail voltage and tweeking the quantum flux capacitor.... hello, where are you going..hello? Hey, come back, did I mention its a 2600K? Hello?"
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
Re:It's not dead, it's fun! (Score:5, Funny)
All I do these days if I'm feeling daring is activate the 'high performance' power profile in Windows.
Re:No (Score:4, Funny)
Re:It's not dead, it's fun! (Score:1, Funny)
>> there's a lot of them.
there are a lot of them, not there is a lot of them
Re:No (Score:5, Funny)
My ex-wife overcocked and ended up divorced because of it.
Re:No (Score:4, Funny)
Is your name Lorena?
Re:It's not dead, it's fun! (Score:5, Funny)
Can we quantify "care" with units? Im still having trouble grasping this.