Is overclocking worth it /g/? Serious question I've

What are you trying to do and what CPU and gpu do you have

>>55672530
Well I'm currently thinking about buying a GTX 1070 and i7 6700k, and mostly video game + record and render in game footage. Especially with DX12 on Win10 allowing better hyperthread usage I was thinking the i7 is worth the extra ~$80 and overclocking it would give me more value.

But my concern is mostly heat and electricity usages, I've read that overclocking increases the idle temp/power use by a lot so I'm a bit concerned with the 50w or whatever it might be just for simply existing

>>55672518
Depends on your task, processor, cooling solution, and OCing headroom.

If youre on an older core2 or first/second gen i7 then absolutely, those chips were quite conservatively clocked and you can see 33-60% gains. Something newer is extremely lucky to get 15% (going from turbo boost, not base)

no
that's why I run 5 year old xeons

>>55672518
>getting more performance for free
Of course it is.

>>55672601
It's not for free when you're paying with higher power usage and running into potential thermal bottlenecks. Even a 20% OC can almost double power usage and 300WHr is not a trivial amount to just gain 20%

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>>55672518
Not really.
Unless your trying to squeeze 1-to-2 more years out of some old hardware or something.

>>55672574
The only way your idle draw goes up that much is if you disable all power saving sleep states. That's generally unnecessary unless you absolutely want to push a chip to the limit. I've got an older 32nm cpu that does 4.4 with ht on, at crazy voltage, with idle states on. YMMV, every chip is different.

>>55672627
You can buy electricity but you can't buy fps.

>>55672649
I suppose that's a reasonable statement

>>55672627
maybe if you live in a place that jews you for power
my desktop at idle costs me $0.05/hr to run, and at max it's double that

If you're trying to do something, and the CPU is the bottleneck, then obviously.

Otherwise, I can't imagine why you would want to.

>>55672518
You're running your shit out of spec for minimal real-world performance gain in a world where clock speed is pretty much worthless.

>>55672627
The difference of my 5820k overclocked or stock is ~120w. Even at full load (worst case scenario) i'd be looking at maybe an extra $5 a month.

Electricity simply isnt that expensive.

Unless you own some garbage AMD product - yes it's a free performance.

>>55672578
This. Got my i7 870 to 4.2ghz and it's a fucking housefire, but the gains were great and it's still performing competitively