https://www.pcgamer.com/upscaling-and-frame-generation-are-the-final-nails-in-the-coffin-for-overclocking-and-im-absolutely-okay-with-that/
https://www.pcgamer.com/upscaling-and-frame-generation-are-the-final-nails-in-the-coffin-for-overclocking-and-im-absolutely-okay-with-that/
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As long as people can get 1 more fps or 1% more in a benchmark. Overclocking will never die.
Tweaking hardware will never die as the other guy said. Half the fun is squeezing any blood at all out of these new stones, it’s never been about practicality. There’s always gonna be something worth exploring. If anything all the new clock domains and compute resources on these new cards makes it more interesting. Modern cpus have two core types for us to play with now. DDR5 has relatively muuuuuuuch higher headroom than DDR4 if you count %MaxOCHeadroomVs.JedecSpec. DDR5 can already do 100% overclocks in the time frame DDR4 was breaking 3600 MHzish. And DDR5 is also just plain architecturally different than 4.
I used to overclock in the s775, s1366 and 1150 era. Overclocking got simpler and more automated with every step. Boost algorithms took almost all the fun out of overclocking as the max was already reached by the algorithm.
The only part that’s still useful to overclock is the RAM, which is fairly complex, so less and less people are tweaking their PC. Hardcore oc will probably never die, but the average Joe overclock is useless nowadays.