Just to be sure

[Ambro789]

For a minute let us take out the fun of research and simply doing what we do with computers and consider my question.

The sole purpose of O.C. is to have your system run faster, correct?

I have a 60Hz monitor and I run BF4 pegged at 60 fps at max settings all the time no matter the load. So, for BF4 I have no reason to O.C. correct? I wrote a user.cfg that sets my fps to 65.

If I can run any game I play at 60fps and not drop below that except during load screens, I have no reason to O.C. Correct? Very soon I will be getting a 144Hz g-sync or 120, whatever comes out, and if I cannot maintain 120/144 I need to O.C. or like I am planning, build a new computer. I think this is correct.

For fun I timed the time it takes to load, put in password and get to player screen in Diablo ROS. Took like 31 seconds. Then I did a light O.C. and it took 24 seconds. Both run at 60Hz, since that is my bottleneck, so no real reason to O.C. it seems to me. Correct?

I am trying to be sure the reason for all this research I do is just because I want to go fast. "IF you are not first you are last correct?" Ricky Bobby quote.

[HiVizMan]

You are correct. With most modern systems stock is more than enough, when you game the real-estate of your screen or screens are what determine if you need to OC at all. Any standard single 1080p screen regardless of size coupled with a good graphic card will not need the CPU to be OC'd to get great performance.

Start gaming with three screens or a 4K screen and multiple video cards then that all changes.

Bump up the refresh rate and your CPU will work harder, and your graphic card too of course. Again it is all dependant on the number of pixels that are being refreshed. Most of the time a high end CPU and graphic card at stock will be up for the task. Think there are only a couple of games that really depend on CPU processor power to the extent that you allude to.

OC is just fun for most of us, a sport for some of us and a job for a few of us.

[Arne_Saknussemm]

And worth noting that Gsync is, at least in in part, designed for the case where you don't reach the refresh rate and will still have good visuals. You don't need to reach 144Hz on the Swift it will have lower refresh rates and Gsync will work all the way down to 30FPS...

[Ambro789]

Yep I know that about the g-sync. Right now with my SLI and my old i7-950 in a Rampage III Extreme I run 135-175 fps in BF4 max settings. The g-sync would be perfect, if I had it, at say a steady 120Hz. I do not run max very often as I really cannot tell any real difference.
When BF3 came out, which is why I built this computer, I ran 3 monitors. It was freaking awesome. I stopped for a reason that might surprise you. I stopped because I thought I would burn my eyes out. Honest and true story, it was just so much to take in.