Why is it all the reviews I read on CPUs have stock benchmark for a variety of tasks, possibly overclocking results, but just about never benchmarks on overclocked results. That's the only thing I care about frankly.
Because the average user who is building a PC is probably going to stick with stock. Also OEM's that build systems around these chips are neither going to allow the user to tweak the BIOS settings to OC or OC themselves and risk thermal issues when Billy Joe Bob and 100,000 other people puts their new Inspiron whatever number under the desk and heat builds up. Unlike Apple, Dell and co generally don't sit on the edge of the thermal envelope of what they system can take.
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Why is it all the reviews I read on CPUs have stock benchmark for a variety of tasks, possibly overclocking results, but just about never benchmarks on overclocked results. That's the only thing I care about frankly.
Because the average user who is building a PC is probably going to stick with stock. Also OEM's that build systems around these chips are neither going to allow the user to tweak the BIOS settings to OC or OC themselves and risk thermal issues when Billy Joe Bob and 100,000 other people puts their new Inspiron whatever number under the desk and heat builds up. Unlike Apple, Dell and co generally don't sit on the edge of the thermal envelope of what they system can take.
Yes, but that's the thing, the average user who buys prepackaged PCs is not the kind of person who reads these articles.