To Overclock or Not

[donsor]

My new rig (specs below) was set on default setting in BIOS. Thus a majority of the settings were on Auto. Is the performance in "Auto" setting the best I can get with this rig?

Asus M3A32MVP DeLuxe WiFi
AMD Phenom 9500
3Gig RAM
Diamond Radeon 3870 video

[liambl]

Auto is the speed the components were designed to run at, anything over is overclocking. Do you think you need more performance?

[doubledragon5]

Now a days with the much faster processors, OC isn't worth it or needed.. I would run the machine for a while at stock speed..If it is still to slow for you, then you should just purchased the cpu to the max that your mb will handle.

[donsor]

The performance seemed to be satisfactory. Guess some of us have the tendency to soup things up, if we can. Nonetheless, I'll leave auto settings as is.

Thanks

[CorruptedSanitY]

What are you going to gain on OC'ing t he CPU?
Doesnt the CPU only show when starting up/shutting down?

[shadowpr]

When you oc the cpu (processor) then the system in whole is generally faster since everything uses the processor. Any task you do, should be faster. It would be noticable on more cpu intense processes though.

Good examples are burning a cd, or dvd. Ripping a cd, dvd.

[CorruptedSanitY]

When you oc the cpu (processor) then the system in whole is generally faster since everything uses the processor. Any task you do, should be faster. It would be noticable on more cpu intense processes though.

Good examples are burning a cd, or dvd. Ripping a cd, dvd.


So my CD/DVD would be burned faster? :/ I dont think so, the speed is a factor of the DVD-RW/CD-RW x speed.

[shadowpr]

The process of burning a dvd would be faster cause you would have to get it to the correct format first.