Why do not players love overclocking?
This problem with many users have exchanged, and they often take it into account - that is why we are not enthusiastic about overclocking now? DIY core is 'toss', whether it is for saving money or pure because of love, DIY fascinating Place is the need for players to continue to explore the pursuit of more extreme performance, overclocking is one of them.
Some senior DIY players may still remember the overclocking myths of the Celeron 300A, as well as the glory of the core of 'Tulaladin' and the stimulation of AMD Duron and Button processors. However, in recent years processor overclocking has fallen silent and the overclocking has become Very few hobbies of high-end players, the most enthusiastic about the overclocking is probably the manufacturers.
But this is often for the extreme environment of their own motherboards, video card's technical strength, no significance for ordinary players.
So, why are players now overclocking no enthusiasm? The cause of this problem is what?
Answer: Not a player does not love overclocking, is now the overclocking players can not love
For this question, let's say the conclusion - not the players do not love overclocking, and now overclocking allows players to love it.
This issue seems to some manufacturers to DIY market depression due to consumers do not want to upgrade the same, it seems right, but from this year's eating hot chicken games point of view, consumers are not without the power to upgrade, but there is no corresponding demand on the market .
To know that sales of 30 million copies of chicken Chi said that this year's game to save the hardware market, even if only one-tenth or one-twentieth of the players chose a new machine, it also brought hundreds of markets Million new sales, while eating chicken hardware are mostly high-end, which graphics card, processor, motherboard market is an important promotion.
The current DIY players are not enthusiastic overclocking behind a similar logic, not super, is their overclocking power, fun is restrained by a variety of factors, players if you can not get fun or benefits, apparently will not take the initiative to toss overclocking , If you can easily get 50% performance gain as Celeron 300A then, which player will not overclock?
In order to overclock, consumers, manufacturers have racked their brains, launched a variety of overclocking related products and Raiders, hot very.
Speaking of the impact of overclocking, which in turn can be divided into technical reasons, policy reasons, etc., the following specific talk about:
First, the processor technology limitations, more and more overclocking difficult
1, semiconductor technology restrictions.
The first technical backpackers chose the processor technology, we are now familiar with overclocking God U are often many years ago products.
Such as the Celeron 300A 250nm process, then although the manufacturing process lags behind more than now, but the process is not so complicated, the negative problems such as leakage current is not so serious, 66MHz FSB bus frequency can easily exceed 100MHz, performance increase of 50%, simply Shuangwaiwai.
The current CPU manufacturing process more complex, although brought performance improvements, reduced size and other advantages, but from 32nm after the new technology to slow down, Intel 14nm node or even give up the Tick-Tock strategy, derived from three generations of 14nm Technology, will have been used until 2018 or 2019, before and after the span of up to 5 years.
No new technology support, the processor frequency is difficult to have qualitative change.
2, the processor architecture is increasingly complex.
Before the various overclocking God U there is a characteristic, that is, they are often single-core, with the processor architecture upgrade to dual-core quad-core or even eight-core, the processor can significantly overclocking less and less, single-core era There is a 50% overclocking rate at every turn, which is not possible with current quad-core processors.
The core increases, more and more integrated units, complex instruction set makes the current internal CPU is very complex, FSB bus has long been eliminated, PCIe bus and CPU chip ring bus to replace its location, which is BCLK basic frequency, The integrated BCLK bus frequency will affect the I / O device stability, so from the SNB Intel processors, super-FSB have become very difficult.
Now that we can only go over frequency doubling almost the way, Intel had staged step BCLK frequency, but did not change the way the processor FSB.
3, BIOS overclocking features complex, less than friendly.
Along with the increasing complexity of the processor BIOS, especially overclocking to be related to the frequency, voltage, power management and so on parameters to the current CPU complexity, the voltage can be divided into core voltage, nuclear voltage, SA system assistant Voltage, memory voltage and so on, frequency, power consumption settings are the same, more and more complex.
These things are not friendly to DIY players, of course, experts do not have to worry about these, but the reality is that the computer is getting wider audience, the proportion of white or the vast majority, even if the current BIOS can support the Chinese language interface , Even with one-click overclocking options, but the complexity of setting parameters for most people is still a threshold.
Second: business strategy, thoroughly overclocked game player's heart
Semiconductor technology, processor architecture is like a martial arts martial arts master, but all the martial arts in the world have told us the most powerful weapon is not the hands, but the people - the same is true overclocking, technical limitations have indeed affected National overclocking, but the real overclocking universal disappeared or the processor company's business strategy.
Exactly Intel's change, they have made the product from the processor to the motherboard have been limited to overclocking can only spend more to buy a special model.
1, better but more expensive K-processor.
Before the overclocking can also be said that all the people involved, whether Pentium or Celeron can be super, super and less can be revel, at least we do not have to worry about no fun.
After Intel changed the marketing strategy, blocking universal overclocking, introduced the K series processors, including Core i7 processor models become high-end products, the specifications are the best, but the price is the most expensive, such as Core i7-2600K / 3770K / 4770K / 6700K to the current Core i7-8700K, this upgrade 4 nuclear to 6 nuclear, but the price rose to 3399 yuan.
2, Intel is not only introduced a dedicated processor overclocking, motherboard chipsets will be targeted , The previous P series, the Z series motherboards now support overclocking capabilities, while the mainstream H, B, Q series motherboards can not be overclocked, so after the return is the P / Z series motherboard is the most expensive, with the K series of processing Together with a substantial increase in overclocking costs.
Speaking of this, Intel rival AMD can be regarded as the industry conscience, there has been no limit universal overclocking, the processor can be unlocked, but AMD's problem is that in the past years the CPU is not to force the players did not buy AMD to deal with The power of the device, even if it is not limited to overclocking.
Now Ryzen processor performance a lot stronger, but Ryzen's overclocking performance is not good, air-cooled environment generally stop at about 4.0GHz, and the default frequency increase is not large, with Intel still a little distance.
Three: Times have changed, DIY players have changed
More influential than technology and tactics are the changes in the DIY era. Generation after generation of DIY players have grown up. Initially, the old players willing to save money who have saved money have entered middle age and old age with less energy and 90 After and after the current concept of 00 different, and they prefer to have personalized and cool products, such as a variety of RGB lighting accessories, peripherals, and overclocking brought performance is no longer sensitive.
A recent feeling is that many people go to play chicken games and installed capacity, they directly asked what kind of configuration can be fluent in chicken, on the contrary the price requirement is very relaxed, which is consistent with the previous consumer DIY concept is very different, After all, most of the economic conditions are now good, installed computers have long been no longer preoccupied with that cost, the players want to buy can be cool, the store is also happy to serve such consumers.
For DIY players are not enthusiastic overclocking reasons, we can also say more, such as many people superstitious 'excess CPU performance', there is the Intel processor IHS switch to grease and so on, these factors are to varying degrees Affect the player's enthusiasm for overclocking.
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