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in my last video I detailed how to overclock non K Intel skylake CPUs using the base clock method and yes that's still possible if you're interested in how to do that go and click the card above me and check out that corresponding video but I started thinking about the viability of overclocking particularly from a gamer standpoint so if all you do is play video games on your PC should you consider overclocking I know that question sounds a little crazy but I want you to think about it like this when you increase the voltage of your CPU during an overclock you're gonna be decreasing its lifespan on top of that your C future's gonna run hotter just how it works and because of that you're gonna need some form of custom cooling so there's money involved there's a lot of risk involved overclocking is a serious thing you should know what you're doing before you decide to pursue overclocking in general so that's what I want to answer in this video does overclocking a CPU actually yield higher frame rates and video games so I ran through all of my tests using the best i-5 money can currently buy the i-5 6600 K I paired it with the GTX 970 gigabyte windforce Edition graphics card running its stock and the CPU is running at 4.6 gigahertz when I first ran my tests I down clock the CPU afterwards to 3.6 gigahertz and ran through the exact same test once again so the frequency of the CPU is the only variable in this scenario I want to see if that one gigahertz frequency difference we deal with any substantial change in the frame rates I receive and all of my games that I've tested so you should expect an increase in fps right as you overclock your cpu but I want to see if that increase if any increase exists at all is is substantial enough to justify overclocking a CPU it's essentially what this video is about so let's go ahead and see what the results were so that's that honestly a bit disappointing I expected a much larger difference between our 4.6 and 3.6 gigahertz runs of all of these benchmarks even in games like City skylines in Grand Theft Auto 5 which are regarded as much more CPU intensive those games still really didn't yield any substantial FPS increase with our 4.6 run versus our 3.6 and I think that that's has a lot to do with the fact that we didn't overclock our GPU so even though some of these games are CPU intensive they're still going to mostly rely on the graphics card and because we didn't change that variable at all and it's just relying on CPU frequency overclock it's a bit like a ram frequency overclock so your graphics card has its own processor in its own set of RAM which this the video games are going to use primarily anyway so changing these other variables changing your CPU or Ram frequency all of that really isn't going to have as much of an impact on video game performance as changing your GPU or your vram frequency would your memory frequency there which you can change all that MSI Afterburner by the way very simple to do just just make sure that you actually know what you're doing when you slide this parse left and right I think an important exception to this rule would be in the case of the G 32 58 and G 4400 CPUs that have lower core counts and lower thread counts will benefit greatly from being overclocked so if you're looking at buying a CPU from the Scylla climate that's not very expensive at all maybe a G 4400 or an i3 6100 those CPUs would benefit greatly from being overclocked but if we're talking about i5 and i7 I really I don't see the benefits of overclocking those for the sake of solely gaming just because you saw in some of these cases like black ops 3 our underclock C if you actually have in higher frame rates than our overclocked CPU so these you know these results aren't set in stone but I want you to take these at face value it's it's it's really not going to give you that much of an added benefit in gaming if you're deciding to purchase an i5 6600 K or 4 just to 6,600 so consider that I would save that money if I was you and reinvest that into a more expensive graphics card where you will definitely see some big changes in the frame rates I want to hear from you so let me know in the comment sections below if you agree or disagree with my conclusion based on these results right here be sure to give the video a thumbs up if you think it deserves one and give it a thumbs down if you think it doesn't and subscribe for more videos like this this is science studio thanks for learning with us