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what's up guys Jays $0.02 here in today's video is going to be a little bit beginner level so if you're one of my more advanced followers feel free to come back in the next one or just hang around if you want you might actually learn something or you might even just laugh at me like you guys already do it's okay I don't mind I'm used to it the wife laughs at me all the time today we're going to talk about overclocking and whether or not it's safe because I feel like there's a lot of people out there that are not using their hardware to its full potential because they're afraid of something because of a lot of misinformation is out there in the world things have gotten better when it comes to overclocking and people generally accepting it hopefully by the end of today's video you'll be one of those people as well today's video is sponsored by Master opt the largest community commerce platform in the world and right now they have a massive drop on the popular AKG K 7 xx mass drop Edition audiophile headphones at only 199 dollars supplies are limited so click the link in the description for the drop details now the first thing you have to understand is what exactly overclocking is and that's simply increasing either the multiplier or the frequency of your component whether it be graphics card or CPU or even memory to get more operations per second to make it operate faster now that might have already thrown some people out just basically think about it this way it's like putting the gas pedal down farther on your car let's say your car had a screw that stopped the gas pedal from going any farther than that overclocking is you backing that screw off so that you can don't and don't guys will make a joke with screw off come on this is this is an adult show here but you're going to allow that gas pedal to go down even farther because well from the factory they're actually built to go much faster than they ship which means you've got a lot of headroom and free horsepower just sitting there waiting to be tapped well Jay if the chips could go faster then why don't the companies just ship them at their max speed already well I'm glad you asked that because you have to understand how many units are actually built and shipped we're talking about hundreds of thousands of video cards over the last several years and millions of processors shipped over the last let's just say the last decade right millions and millions of processors and graphics cards and memory modules and all of that stuff well you have to think about the RMA or return merchandise authorization and warranties that are involved with that whereas a huge number of those parts can actually well exceed the factory clocks that they're being shipped at they have to think about the failure rate and these companies like Intel and AMD and NVIDIA have to make sure they can keep yo good yields because if they're shipping these things literally at the limit and they're breaking left and right and they're taking back these warranty returns and having to ship more then they're just losing money so what they've decided to do over the last I'd say over the last five or six years it's gotten really good maybe far the more like seven years where these companies have really started to relax the the locked functions of these CPUs and graphics cards now to allow you if you want to take the risk and they're very adamant about it being a risk you can play around with your components and get more speed if you want but on AMD now you've got the black edition which has unlocked voltage and frontside bus multiplier you can play around with all that stuff until now has the case queue and they even sell an additional warranty so if you blow up your process or do two overclocking it you get another one very very inexpensive and Nvidia and AMD both on the graphics card sides have really started to implement good Headroom on the amount of additional power Target and voltage and stuff that you can work with again to try and get better performance at the trade-off of higher heat and potentially degrading the lifespan of the product now I think that's one of the things that scares people is they hear about degradation or degrading of the chip and they think oh my god if I overclock this every time I turn on my computer I'm literally just degrading and I'm shaving life off of it and whereas that might be true what you're actually doing is you're shaving it off obviously the tail end of its lifespan and you might have turned a chip that would run otherwise ten or fifteen years and made it maybe run seven or eight years before it dies are you planning on upgrading before you potentially hit that lifespan I'm going to use an example here of an Intel ISA 300 it was a Core 2 Duo chip it was clocked at 1.8 6 gigahertz and it was unlocked overclocked mine to 3.42 gigahertz that was an 80% overclock and I've still to this day never had a chip of a nice if any type that has achieved that level of overclocking that was like intel's pinnacle of overclocking and they've never been able to get anything that overclocked nearly as far but the reason why I'm even mentioning this is that CPU ran at 3.4 to 24/7 no thermal or no no turbo clock it just ran you turned it on it went to 3.42 and it never came down none of that power balancing crap no the C states or any of that and that CPU lasted over seven years the reason why I say this you know the CPU lasted was because it was actually the motherboard that died it was an old LGA 775 socket and it just wasn't worth replacing by the time it died so the CPU was still working actually after seven years and spending every day of its life overclocked to that speed with a lot more voltage going in it than what was ever shipped from the factory now that's an example of a great silicon lottery winner where you get a chip that overclocks really really well on the flip side the lottery loser would be the chip that no matter how much voltage you give it no matter how much you try and tweak the multiplier or the core or the base clock just won't overclock and that is and you have no control over that you either get a great one or you didn't sometimes you can find one in the middle most of us have one somewhere in the middle ground but you always end up hearing about those people on forums that just flat-out lost the silicon lottery and you kind of feel bad for them and then you all kind of hate the guy that just absolutely won Mesilla con lottery has the magical chip that will go to like five gigahertz plus with hardly any extra voltage and we all love to hate that guy trust me so when you overclock yeah you're shaving off some of the lifespan but you have to ask yourself when you're planning on upgrading if you're if you are on a schedule and you upgrade your computer every three years every three years or you buy a graphics card every other year you're not going to shave off enough life to even notice any sort of degradation that in the span of which you've owned that card or that that CPU and the telltale sign of degradation is where your clocks are no longer stable anymore at that overclock and you have to start bumping it down and as you decrease it you start to decrease some of the load or again degradation it pushes it back out again so it's just a balancing act now the number one killer of overclock components believe it or not has nothing to do with the clock speed it has everything to do with the voltage and exponential heat that's going to occur when you start to add voltage and overclocking to your parts now a lot of people think it's linear you had X amount of voltage as temperatures going to go up on a straight line it doesn't work that way some chips in fact most chips a little bit of voltage can be a sudden spike in temperature where let's just use for example a 6700 K at 1.3 volts that's kind of hard to get kind of high on Intel and it might be running at let's say 75 C under load on a basic water like Ultima water cooling loop and then you bump it up to let's say 1.3 to 5 which is just point to 5 0 of a volt and suddenly it jumps up to 85 C 10 C jump for just a little bit of voltage and what you find is as you start to reach the limits of the CPU the voltage goes the voltage jumps will give you much bigger steps of temperature increase and the whole reason we've been mentioning this is that means you obviously have to keep the temperatures in check so obviously the point here is to get the best results with overclocking your CPU you need to have a really good cooler whether that be like a Noctua NV 14 or some sort of a 120 millimeter or 240 millimeter water cooling loop something that's going to give you better than factory cooling factory heat sinks that come with Intel and AMD or garbage literally paperweights that just belong in the trash if you think you're going to overclock does it's not going to happen with those you need more headroom when it comes to cooling heat again I'm going to repeat this is the number one killer of components even stuff that is an overclocked factory CPU coolers are terrible even at factory clocks and I think everybody should be running some sort of a custom cooler everyone should have a dual loop skunkworks in their system as far as I'm concerned and I don't think you had to pay for it I think the world should just give it to you but I think another thing that makes people kind of fearful of whether or not overclocking is safe is in order to find your max overclock often you're going to find that point of failure and it's that failure point that scares people you've moved that slider on your afterburner in your video card and suddenly you went to launch your game and it completely froze up no mouse no keyboard nothing working your restart the computer you start your game and again it freezes and you start to freak out a little bit so you just you wipe the profile and you go I don't want overclock that scary or with your CPU you push your overclock a little bit too far you start up your computer it clicks on and then it clicks off and it just starts power cycling it won't go and you're like oh my god what'd I do I think I broke it I broke my computer my mom is gonna kill me well CPUs are a little bit more tricky to overclock and fortunately the clear CMOS button on there is going to wipe any of your settings that you may have messed up and it's going to get you up and running again but you need to be more careful with CPUs the GPU because CPU parameters are not going to have very many safeguards involved to keep you from blowing it up if you if you try and boot an x99 chip here like my 59 60 X and you dial in 2.5 volts it's possibly going to actually let it boot and then it's just going to fry the CPU because that is way more voltage and it's designed to handle and you're getting into like ln2 liquid nitrogen cooling territory there but the motherboards aren't going to keep you from making that mistake graphics cards on the other hand overclock and move those sliders have some fun because those sliders are set by the bios on how far they can actually go and that bios is those bios limits are set by the factory on where they know it's safe to play around with it's it's safe to move that voltage slider all the way to the right it's safe to put that temperature limit all the way to the right hopefully you have an aftermarket card which is not going to have terrible fans on it like blower style coolers from you know the factories and they have nice big huge heat pipe heat sinks that are going to keep things nice and cool but bottom line here guys is you have to try pretty hard to actually break something when it comes to your overclocked Senor CPUs even when I was learning I never broke anything it was always revert able revert able and I'm sure that's a word it could always be reverted and start over but the bottom line is even a mild overclock just a small overclock 5% 10% is that much more power and that much more performance you're getting for the same amount of money and you're missing out if you're not taking that opportunity to pull more power out of your components the nice thing about overclocking though is typically on graphics cards the percentage of overclock usually directly relates to the percentage of performance increase so if you get a 15% overclock on your graphics card you can get about a 15% extra boost in frames per second it's that it's kind of weird that it works out fairly linear like that of course it's going to deviate from that line a little bit but it's pretty close it's actually a pretty amazing thing so if you can know if you have a great graphics card that over clocks and you can get 25 extra of percentage of frequency out of it you're going to get anywhere between 20 and 25 percent extra fps so what are you waiting for do it but with that said guys I'm going to go ahead and get on out of here I hope this videos helped put you at ease just a little bit we will do more overclocking tutorials here on the more modern stuff x99 we'll check out some sky like overclocking and I've been promising that one forever and I promise more redness videos are coming I want the build done I want it out of here I was just waiting on parts and then I got really busy and then I went to Austin and everything got just completely foo barred but we're going to be back on track where you get that build finished and the hell out of my shop alright guys thanks for watching as always I'll see you in the next video oh and follow on Twitter and all that stuff that's fun too