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Come On Out, You Overclockers!

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Suntower

Established Member
Just out of curiosity... and feel free to move this if it's out of place...

How many of you overclock? By how much? Why? Does it really make that much difference, and if so, please be specific?

I just wonder how much of people's problems come from overclocking. I didn't think too many people (other than gamers) did that crap anymore, but from what I've been noticing, it would appear that a -lot- of y'all do so, which just seems like -asking- for trouble to an old fart like me.

Just wondering....

Discuss! Discuss!

---JC
 
Cat5

Cat5

Established Member
Pentium D 830 running at 3.75Ghz. Water cooled. Temps are 37c idle, 54c extreme load, 49c typical load.

Ram is DDR800 running at DDR833 - FSB is raised from 200 to 250 so the bus bandwidth is also 25% faster.

The difference is rather extreme compared to running stock.

Overclocking is not such a gamble if you know what you're doing. Make sure your temps are in line. Get hardware that is reputed to be stable overclocking, and don't even think about calling it stable until you can pass 24 hours of memtest86, 24 hours of Prime95 (dual Prime95's if the CPU is dual core, or has HT enabled), and several successful runs of PC-Mark04. It's also a good idea to run a program like CPU-Z and Throttlewatch to make sure the CPU isn't throttling during load.

Also, get a REAL psu. The only ones I can recommend for Intel systems is the OCZ Powerstream520 (not 600, not modstream). If your CPU isn't a dual core you can get away with a Fortron Blue Storm 500, Forton FSP550, or Seasonic 600.

There are others that will work, but not quietly.

Go for it. My last p4 3.4 OC'ed to 3.85 and my current Pentium Dual 3.0 OC'ed to 3.75 are my most stable systems yet. I prefer ASUS motherboards, and OCZ or Corsair RAM.
 
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Phil Chamney

Member
I know it's not the answer you are looking for, but I haven't over-clocked since the 486 days (I was quite good at it ;) )
I haven't needed to. I prefer to have max stability.
...and before the OC'ers jump down my throat, it's one less thing to consider, if you are trouble-shooting a problem.
 
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Tony Ostinato

Active Member
Exactly, i did feel a rush when i got my 300a up to 450 and it never did fry the cpu like i was always warned.

but whenever something was buggy it was one more thing to suspect
 
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Phil Chamney

Member
Tony Ostinato said:
Exactly, i did feel a rush when i got my 300a up to 450 and it never did fry the cpu like i was always warned.

but whenever something was buggy it was one more thing to suspect
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Ah the good old Celeron 300A....when overclocking really meant something <snicker> <ducks> :D
 
Ten

Ten

Member
Man I remember those celeron 300a's....I had mine clocked to 502 with 2x pure3d2 voodoo2 cards and the original SLI....1024x768 in quake2...great days, great days.

At the moment im running these dual core opteron 275s at 2.57ghz (stock is 2.2ghz) on air cooling. Temps at full load are under 50c and I havent had a problem yet. Nice having a 10.28ghz machine ;)

ten
 
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