i’ve seen that people slightly undervolt or overclock some pc parts for benefits. but are the benefits actually that tangible? when would u want to undervolt and why? Is it mainly for laptops to get better thermal performance?
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I slightly under volt my GPU to keep them cooler because I have a ITX case that doesn’t flow a lot of air. If you do it with the right amount, you may lose one or 2% of performance. If you under volt and overclock, you can actually get better performance. It’s not hard to do you can look up what kind of settings online to make. You just gotta do it in small increments and test it, then test it again, and test it again with a benchmark. I’m not sure if you see much real world performance doing it on your own. Unless you’re competing with other people to see if you can get the fastest benchmark. Typically a gamer should just use the software that came with the GPU like AMD’s “adrenaline”. Not sure if Nvidia has something like that.
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This is a great answer @Viraco
Nvidia has the Nvidia app which has automatic tuning which is okay for a beginner.
There are many videos explaining overclocking and undervolting, @Viraco explained it well
The biggest idea as to why you should undervolt is to keep the card cooler at a performance cost.
The reason to overclock is to increase temperature at the cost of an increase in performance
Combining them tells the card to do the same thing (core clocks) you could be doing at high voltage at lower voltages at a compromise to temperature (typically lower) and performance (typically higher), I think. I can be very wrong.
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You did a better job than I did
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@Viraco @elaniselan
thank u!!!
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