Do you overclock your hardware?

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Do you overclock your computer hardware?

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MachOne
Increasing your clock speeds on your video card by 28.5 and 49 MHz won't really hurt your video cards life (and if it does, you have some crappy cooling).
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True. My system is by no means subpar on cooling. I've got Vantec's Tornado (You know, the screaming Jet engine...) that pushes around 84.1 CFM at full rpm along with a massive heatsink. At most, my system will run 105 to 107 F Case temperature at full load. The CPU is relatively the same. Of course, I've got no less than 5 80mm fans and a 140mm in my PSU in addition to the cpu fan. I just wish the Tornado weren't so loud... it's a good thing I've got a fan controller.
 
Hell, I just leave me case cover off. It keeps my video card at a constant 65*C core temperature and about 45-50*C Ambient temperature.
 
I overclock a lot,
M 6600gt stock clock are 500/900
I overclocked it to 545/1045
My cpu is a amd64 3000+ 1.8ghz
I overclocked it to 2.6ghz
So far everything is stable.
 
No. I think my 3500 is underclocked ATM. It was overheating till i got a new case and heatsink and just havent' overclocked it yet. Don't need to anywho.
I think it's running at 2 GHz instead of 2.2.
 
Raghavan
No. I think my 3500 is underclocked ATM. It was overheating till i got a new case and heatsink and just havent' overclocked it yet. Don't need to anywho.
I think it's running at 2 GHz instead of 2.2.
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I don't know you managed to overheat that. I just got a AMD64 3500+ just running with standard heat sink, closed case and no extra cooling. And at the moment the CPU is running at 17C/63F and the Motherboard at 13C/55F.

I think some serious overclocking is required....
 
Casio
I don't know you managed to overheat that. I just got a AMD64 3500+ just running with standard heat sink, closed case and no extra cooling. And at the moment the CPU is running at 17C/63F and the Motherboard at 13C/55F.

I think some serious overclocking is required....
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The program displaying those temperatures is garbage. It's not possible to have those temperatures with a stock heatsink and aircooling, unless you're in Antarctica.
 
ROAD_DOGG33J
The program displaying those temperatures is garbage. It's not possible to have those temperatures with a stock heatsink and aircooling, unless you're in Antarctica.
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Well. They've gone up a bit since this morning. It's been on all day now and the heating has come on. But it's still pretty cool I guess.

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I did, but my motherboard is too expensive to do it now (my old one fried in a simple human error). My main system is overlocked though, from 2600 to 2800.
 
Sorry to resurrect an old thread, but I just overclocked a few days ago to get better FPS out of GTR2 with a full grid.

Hardware:
Asus M2N-E mainboard
AMD64 3200+
2gb OCZ Gold DDR2 CL4-4-4-12
Evga 7600GT KO


CPU: OC'd from 2.0GHz to 2.62 (31% increase)
GPU: stock timings 580/750, OC'd to 580/860
All cooled on air, stable so far. CPU temp peaks at 53*C, GPU at 66*C in the benchtests I've run.

I can't up the core speed on the GPU without getting a bit of snow in 3Dmark05. I think I'll need to voltmod if I want to up that, but I'm not too interested in that yet due to the increased heat.

I'm not OCing the ram because it is not on the list published by Asus for sticks that are compatible with this board. I've had no stability problems with it so far though, and frankly I want things to stay that way.

Anyways, the changes upped my 3Dmark05 score from 4198 to 6461. Oblivion runs around 40+FPS on full detail (but grass turned off). And, I can field a full grid in GTR2 on the highest detail setting without the FPS dropping below 45-50 on the starting grid, 65-70 once the pack strings out a bit. 👍

I'm currently running a 24hr Prime95 torture test just to make sure the CPU OC-ing isn't gonna hurt the result accuracy on CPU intesive operations since I do use CAD and CFX programs and Matlab quite often for school work.
 
I need new RAM before I consider overclocking. No heat spreaders. DDR266.

BUT I have my video card from 300/550 to 600/675.

Runs a fair bit smoother on CoD. Didn't up my 3dmark03 score much.

AMD 64 3400+ Venice at 2.2ghz
Asus A8R-MX board
512MB DDR266 RAM (UTTER CRAP)
Freetech Geforce 6200 unlocked to 8 pipes and overclocked to 600/675
 
I'm thinking about overclocking my main computer's GPU. It has a GeForce 4 MX440, and I wanna see if I can get MX460 power out of it. If it blows up, who cares? Its an MX series, for chrissakes. I'll replace it with a 6800 Ultra or something.
 
I usually overclock everything.

I used to run an Athlon XP-Mobile 2500+, stock 133x14 or something like that.. 1866MHz. I was running it at 200x12, 2400MHz. And I used to have a GeForce 6800GT stock 350/1000, ran it at 430/1200 for a couple of months then backed down to 400/1100.

Currently I'm running this:

Core 2 Duo E6400 stock 266x8 (2.13GHz), running at 375x8 (3.0GHz)
2gb ddr2-800 5-5-5-12, running at 5-5-5-12 937mhz
X1900XT, I did an automatic overclock on it with ATI tool, must be at X1900XTX speeds or somewhere thereabouts, not sure about the exact clocks
 
A lot of people are going over 500 on FSB with a watercooled Northbridge, GPU, CPU. Pretty amazing. Almost all E6300's that are well cooled, on a good board of course, can easily do 100% overclock. I saw someone on www.overclock.net with an E6700 at 4.0ghz stable on water I think. Maybe it was phase change. I'm not really sure.



Whoever was asking how to overclock CPU/RAM, you have to a) Have a BIOS with those options unlocked. b) You need to know what you're doing. If you don't know how, it's for the best. Go to www.overclock.net and read the FAQ there. Generally most people take the CPU multiplier down 1 and up the FSB. Just a little at a time, maybe 10mhz each time. Each time check temps, get Prime95 and run stress testing for 10-15 mins. Keep doing that until you get to a speed you are happy with. Then run stress testing for 12-24 hours. No errors? Good job, happy computing.

After that, you can up the multiplier if you want. Take a look at other people's results, keeping in mind their cooling and ambient temps can be a factor too.

Good luck.



OH, and if it's an OEM computer, you won't be able to do it. At the most, you can use a jumper to up the FSB a little bit if your mobo supports it.

OEM is if you bought the computer from a company. Thanks and happy trails.
 

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