| Author | Message | ||
     Spiderman |
Over clocking that is! So how many of you tweek your PC's as well as your scooter? I have a 2.6 celeron that I have over clocked to 4.88 and she ran solid! I did have to crank the adjustable fan all the way up to 7k RPM to keep her cool LOL. I run her at 3.26 now to keep her cool and fast! So who else dabbles with over clocking? | ||
| Crusty |
I have a clock on the wall over my computer. Is that considered "over clocking"? | ||
| Natexlh1000 |
I didn't think you could overclock intel chips. AMD pretty much allows you to do anything you want. My 1.67GHz goes up to 1.8 or so before it started to become flakey. I didn't even notice an improvement so I just reverted it back. | ||
| Mbsween |
I run my 2.0 at 2.2 GHz. I had it at 2.6, but I was messing around with voltages to keep it stable and it was getting pretty hot. My "play" machine (Athlon 1.67) just became a PVR so Now i gotta build a new one. Anyone overclocking the Dual core chips? | ||
| Gentleman_jon |
I run a EXOS Liquid Colling System on my MacBuell.  See, Macs are just like any other scooter. You want to run with the big dawgs, you gotta run a watercooler. Savy? (Message edited by gentleman_jon on January 01, 2007) | ||
| Oldog |
when you have a problem do you call the plumber or the geek squad ? | ||
| Cochise |
OHHHH!! COMPUTER performance, not the OTHER kind of performance my emails keep telling me about. | ||
| Pwnzor |
I used majorly overclock my gaming rigs back in the days of the Pentium 3's. Since I got my first Extreme Edition Pentium 4, I realized that overclocking and watercooling were just band-aids over a sucking chest wound! There are certain Intel chips you shouldn't overclock, but the ability to change the clock speed is determined by your motherboard, not the processor. Celerons are on the "do not overclock" list. It may work perfectly it's entire life, but be aware that life is going to be a lot shorter than expected. | ||
| Spiderman |
>>>>but be aware that life is going to be a lot shorter than expected. LLMAO I think this debate outruns the belt vs chain threads... The normal life of a CPU is what like 20+ years? Even if I cut that in half I think I got the $50 worth outta my 2.6  | ||
| Chasespeed |
I have one of these AMD 64 things, its speed and GHZ are 2 different number, 4 gigs of ram(DDR400), a 512 PCI express vid card,2 X 200 gig HDs, adn who know s what else in this thng, if I can figure out this overclocking thing, I am all for it for haha's Guess I should stick with stuff that burns fuel huh? Chase | ||
| Ceejay |
I think the term overclocking actually means you have too much time on your hands.... | ||
| Reepicheep |
I just added another CPU. I'm currently running dual Opterons. When they get cheap I will switch to two dual core Opterons, we are playing with a quad CPU (four dual cores) Opteron linux server here at work connected to a fiber optic SAN, and the thing is scary fast for "consumer" type hardware. Don't know if it is still true, but the Celerons used to be very overclock friendly because they don't use the on die cache memory, which was the weakest link in the overclocking food chain. That being said, no matter how much you overclock it, you can't make the cache appear. So for some things, they will run fairly quick, and for other things where the cache would have helped you it's a brick wall. Overclock for fun... but if what you really want is a fast computer, just go buy one. | ||
| Pwnzor |
LLMAO I think this debate outruns the belt vs chain threads... The normal life of a CPU is what like 20+ years? Even if I cut that in half I think I got the $50 worth outta my 2.6 Granted. Overclock for fun... but if what you really want is a fast computer, just go buy one. Indeed. | ||
| U4euh |
If I stick the computer on the back of my XB, I can get it to go pretty fast, otherwise it's pretty slow!! | ||
| Spike |
I only tweak a little. My Athlon 2800 powered rig originally ran at 1.8ghz, I now have it running just a little over 2.0ghz. I'll always turn them up a little bit because it doesn't cost anything other than a little time to find a stable setting. On the other hand, turning them up for real performance gains requires a really good mobo. If I had the cash to spend on a high-end mobo, I'd just buy more processor to begin with. The only time I see big OC'ing make much sense is when you've already got the latest-and-greatest hardware and you want to get even more out of it, but I've never had a computing budget that would support such a thing. |
