Yeah, what? Worst case scenario you get a blue screen and go “ah, ok, got a little overzealous” before taking the voltage or clock down a bit
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Also ironically doing an engine computer tune on any modern car is free no-risk performance at the cost of fuel economy just like a CPU overclock
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I understand where these beliefs come from because hardware enthusiast forums are full of lunatics who make everything appear far less accessible than it is, and overvolting can get you in trouble, but that’s comparatively unnecessary in most cases. mendocino, barton, wolfdale, come at me, etc.
I have been corrected.
maybe think about the utility of summarizing received wisdom that you have limited personal experience of in the future 
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I don’t know, I think the narrative that overclocking is getting less and less possible is broadly true; as year-on-year silicon gains get harder companies are investing in other unrealized performance like enabling automatic realtime clock tuning to match each unit. AMD, Intel, and Nvidia all have some form of automatic overclocking available now and they’re only getting easier and more baked-in as time goes on. It was an arbitrage situation before, where the it wasn’t worth the manufacturer’s time or effort to segregate chips by small performance differences, but now they’re figuring out how to do that and make it work for everyone, as well as set price discrimination based on it.
they fuck up often enough for me to buy the one goldilocks chip every six years and that’s all that matters
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I would still recommend someone run the OC scanner (auto OC) at a minimum on an Nvidia card rather than use the stock clocks which have to make assumptions about specific thermals and silicone.
even now, there’s still performance to be eked out by doing an all core OC instead of letting the CPU boost itself on a per core basis
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I mean, on an nvidia card you can honestly like, bump the power limit and call it a day, the utility to tuning the clocks beyond that is marginal but the power limit is typically a pretty linear increase as is
Looking into getting one of these, as a few of you suggested in the previous thread to get my Index working when I only have on displayport in on my GPU that’s being used for my monitor.
But I’m not sure how this would actually work? Looks like I can plug an HDMI cable into this, but I wouldn’t be able to plug in my Index into it to then plug into my GPU’s HDMI in. Is there something I’m missing here?
That doesn’t make any sense to me either. If you only have one displayport it’s gotta be used for your index. Can you use HDMI for your monitor? USB-C or DVI?
Unless I can find a device like this which works, then I’ll have to swap my monitor between my DP and HDMI inputs when I feel like using my Index. What a pain! But oh well.
The Index needs all of the bandwidth that DP provides and HDMI couldn’t until 2.1, so nothing is going to turn an HDMI out into something the Index can use. Sorry
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I went back and found the section in the previous thread and I think folks just got wires crossed, it is possible to get HDMI 2.1 out of a DP 1.4 port but you’ve got 1x DP 1.4 and 1x HDMI 2.0b and need two DPs.
The adapter above would be for getting 4K 120hz HDR out of your DP 1.4 into an HDMI 2.1 TV.
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That is exactly the use case I use it for. It’s a very specific use case, and you need very specific hardware to make it work.
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Yea, I think most likely I’m gonna end up going with the monitor. I’m still looking at their options. They sell odds and ends, like sound systems, headsets, even a very nice Canon DSRL, which would be nice to replace my old one with maybe?
But monitor seems most likely yes. I’m not sure if refresh rate is what I want to prioritize though. I was thinking of seeing what they have in terms of photo work models. Like something a bit smaller and with QHD or HD res, but great color repro and viewing angles.
Por que no los tres
(The downsides in contrast and HDR are inherent to IPS LCDs and can’t be fixed at any price without going to OLED or MicroLED.)
It’s possible that anything which is actually noticeably improved and truly made for photo editing is gonna be outpricing me anyways, I haven’t delved into that end yet. If so yea, I’ll just get a nice all-around monitor like this one.
Those are true of all IPS LCDs to varying degrees. You get good blacks and contrast with VA LCDs but lose viewing angles and color accuracy.