Overclocking Jobs Impossible?

[ShermanF]

I'm on the first overclocking job. I'm supposed to overclock a Ryzen 7 1700 to 4016 MHz on a budget of $40. I cannot replace the air cooler (the game will not allow the PC to be turned in without the current air cooler installed). Installing more case fans wasn't nearly enough. Is there anything on the back end to make sure overclocking jobs are even possible?

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I'm not sure how to write this comment in a way that won't be confusing but I'm going to try.

It is possible for us to have impossible overclock jobs generated in this game. This is part of the game. Not all overclocking jobs are always going to be possible in this game. I would suggest you make a new manual save before accepting any overclock jobs just in case they aren't possible to be completed then you could go back and load the save -> don't accept the job -> move on with no impact to your star rating.

And to answer your question: No there is not any kind of way to know if any overclock job is possible to be completed until you accept the job. However you can kind of gauge it yourself the longer you play the game: Look at the customer's CPU that they have in their system and then go look at the same CPU in the store to see it's default clock speed. If they want you to overclock a processor say +800 Mhz or more from it's stock speed then expect to have to put a lot of cooling into it (big AIO or custom water cooling) and/or if it's too far over stock speed (+1000 Mhz or more) that most likely just won't even be possible at all.

I have another suggestion too though while I'm at it: Remember in this game that CFM rating determines cooling performance. If you're upgrading their CPU cooler or replacing fans focus on the CFM rating more than anything. If you're using air cooling you need to think of the "Total CFM rating for the entire computer" which is: adding up the CFM rating of all case fans + the CPU cooler (if you're using an air cooler). The higher the total CFM rating of the system the better it will cool the CPU. Also sometimes on some overclock jobs you can have an exotic / fast air cooled video card that is dumping a lot of heat in the system and making the CPU run hot, that is a thing to consider too. I have completed some overclock jobs in the past where they only ask us to overclock the CPU by under-clocking the video card significantly so it runs cooler which in turn makes the CPU run cooler which can let it overclock higher. Using the gpu tuner app is free and that's another little thing we can tweak.