planning wrote:
When buying a computer with Turbo Boost do you still order it overclocked?
planning,
If you do not have any experience overclocking, I would recommend having the custom builder do it for you. Most Intel chips can be OC\'d anywhere from 5% to 40% and retain stability, depending on the chip. The upper region CPU\'s like my i7/975 are already blazing fast, but I still had AVADirect overclock it almost 20% getting it up to 4020 MHz. The lower end chips like the i7/920 can be OC\'d up to about 40% taking a 2.6 GHz up to 4.0. Likewise with the i5 series.
Overclocking takes place in your BIOS, but a program like ASUS\' TurboV allows me to bump up the speed on-the-fly with a few clicks of the mouse. There are many PC forums on the internet where you can get step-by-step instructions on OCing your particular CPU, but to do it properly will take a lot of time. You have to adjust the timings and frequencies and then run a benchmarking program like Prime95 for up to 24 hours to check its stability. I don\'t have that much free-time on my hands and my computer is used for business purposes, so that\'s why I chose to have the company do it for me.
