I've never done it personally, so I used my MB presets to OC. So, after OC my i7 870 to 3.8 Ghz I tried some video encoding with Avidemux. The FPS went up from 54-62 for the first pass and remained the same for the second pass. Is it Avidemux? Or is it me? I was expecting a bigger boost in FPS and encoding time. I only shaved off 1-2 mins max. Is this normal or did I do something wrong? Second issue I guess. My computer was booting in about 45 sec, but after a few weeks it slowed to 1.5 mins...I already defragged and used CCleaner. However, the boot time was 45 sec when it was overclocked... Thanks in advance for any helpful input
Unfortunately, boot times will suffer if your boot drive is full of stuff. People tend to run a smaller drive as their boot drive or partition their large drives with a smaller boot partition because of this.
no partitioning is still using the same drive...and it won't increase the startup time by that much because on the 2nd partition, u are still accessing for other stuff get a single drive just for windows... OC is not just about the multiplier, u will need OC'able RAM as well and some good cooling fans and change in voltages (those are rules as i have never done OC'n before) because that voids the warranty of the CPUs... if you have windows 7, u never need to defrag your drive manually...
Maybe your bottleneck isn't your cpu? So like even if you get to overclock your cpu to 4,0ghz+ it still wont get much faster. Upgrading your HDD to a SSD might do the trick.
