When I overclock a game system does it speed up the game or does it improve the fps??

Question

thank you :)

Answer 1

FPS will improve but game speed stays the same.

Just stay within stock voltages and insure adequate cooling and your game system will be safe.

Answer 2

It depends on a number of things including your exact hardware and how the game was written.

As a general rule of thumb, the bottleneck in most gaming systems is the graphics. Back in the day when all graphics were rendered in software overclocking the CPU would cause an immediate frame rate increase. Nowadays the graphics cards usually run at their own clock speed. It is, however, possible overclock some graphics cards, and this usually does result in an increased frame rate.

Whether or not the game speeds up depends on how the game was written. PC games need to be written to run at a variety of different speeds, so overclocking often doesn't affect them at all since they constantly check the clock or synch themselves to the video card refresh rate. On the other hand, games with intensive AI (chess, RTS's etc) will often start to exhibit better AI when overclocked as they can perform more calculations per second.

Analysing the performance of overclocked consoles and handhelds gets very complicated. Games written for these systems are typically frame locked, but the bottleneck is typically the data bus which is used by both the main CPU to read instruction code and data, but may also be needed to transfer graphics data to the display hardware (I'm being very simplistic here, a lot of these things have multiple internal buses and multiple cache levels). The bus speed is usually correlated to the CPU speed (e.g. half) so overclocking means you can move more stuff across it. Since the games keep themselves locked to the frame rate it means there is more available bus bandwidth, so in this case you will see a frame rate increase. Conversely, overclocking a graphics chip can in some cases result in no speed increase at all if the bus can't feed data into it any faster; the bottleneck just moves elsewhere. This is often the case, as developers generally try to keep all system components as close to 100% utilization as possible e.g. if the bus is sitting idle a lot of the time waiting for the graphics card to draw things then we'll increase the quality of the textures in order to "use up" the free cycles.

The short answer to your question is therefore "there is no short answer to your question". It depends on a lot of things, and even different games will behave differently. As a very general rule of thumb overclocking a PC will probably increase frame rate whereas overclocking a console can cause anything to happen.

Answer 3

It makes for faster framerates. I overclock everything but I build $2500 towers with overclockable cpus ram and video cards and use overclocking boards that allow me to lock down the PCI buss etc. I dont even use the stock fan/heatsink but use a monster setup with artic silver 5.
Main thing with overclocking is to be realistic with the clock you want. Try bumping your FSB up 5% to start and go from there. check your cpu temp. After gaming for 5 mins check the cpu temp again. Find out where the J5 jumper on your motherboard is and how to use it to reset your bios in case your system wont boot. NEVER bump up the voltage to your video card. Usually a puter will shut down when the cpu overheats but sometimes the cpu just fries. If you've never overclocked before be careful.

Answer 4

You will see more FPS, and in return it will appear the game is more smooth running than before. However, do this with caution because overclocking may void your warranty.

Answer 5

I overclock and see alot of improvement in fps, its been safe for me so far, only minor temperature increase. Just watch your CPU and GPU temperatures.