Overclocking It's Free!....mostly
#1
Posted 08 December 2007 - 01:49 AM
And to any of you PC gamers *coughWDcough* this is a great way to get better performance in your games. Plus, as long as you don't go crazy with the CPU's voltage, you won't kill yourself/PC.
These two articles are great if you have never OC'd your PC before.
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?art...1804&page=1
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?art...=873&page=1
Read all of both articles, and to make something clear, A lower latency in your RAM is better for gameing, but you may have to drop the speed of it to reduce errors. But Lower Latency > RAM's Speed when gameing.
#2
Posted 08 December 2007 - 05:05 PM
I think I generally get a bit over 10 FPS in Crysis (which looks more like 20-ish FPS, due to post-processing. 20 FPS is playable) so I think my computer is already an impressive gaming machine. Still, Caael might be interested.
#3
Posted 08 December 2007 - 10:29 PM
But yeah, Caael should try this. Assuming he has his own PC.
#5
Posted 09 December 2007 - 04:41 AM
#6
Posted 09 December 2007 - 04:36 PM
'Course, it's far easier to just increase the clock multiplier, which is why AMD's would still be a better choice.
#7
Posted 09 December 2007 - 10:01 PM
Dude of Wind, on Dec 9 2007, 05:36 PM, said:
Exactly, people here are looking for a quick system boost that wouldn't endanger their parents computer. Also you must take into consider overheating, if you are over clocking please make sure you have the proper cooling system or ventalation.
#8
Posted 10 December 2007 - 12:06 AM
And it's not any more dangerous to do this with an Intel other than AMD's usually run a bit cooler. I'd give a shot at overclocking my grandma's old PC which she gave to me (it has an AMD running at 400Mhz), but I can't get it to work.
#9
Posted 10 December 2007 - 08:12 AM
#10
Posted 10 December 2007 - 03:32 PM
#11
Posted 10 December 2007 - 06:05 PM
pHantOm, on Dec 10 2007, 06:12 AM, said:
Yeah. I keep it only for tinkering purpouses, and for running a freakishly awesome MS-DOS game called 'Terror From the Deep' (the game is SO old that you can't run it on a modern day PC. It just runs too fast. Heck, it runs fast on my grandma's). The main reason it doesn't work though, is becuase I took apart the hard drive and put it back together, and now I'm too lazy to go and fix whatever I broke. <.<; That and our old gateway's HD doesn't work on it for some reason, even though they ran the same OS, and had roughly the same stats.
escout, on Dec 10 2007, 01:32 PM, said:
As long as you don't push the voltage too high, and you have a heatsink (which you should because then you're PC wouldn't run at all), I can garuntee that you won't break it. And even with a dual core, a faster clock speed is always a good thing to have. With games, it's not the amount of data that can be accessed, it's the speed at which you can get the data. At least that's what I've gathered. So basically, a Pentium 4 running 3.2hz will out-perform a dual core running 1.6Ghz per core. I'm baseing that off of the fact that lower latency RAM is better for gameing, so th same would probably apply to a CPU.
#12
Posted 10 December 2007 - 06:06 PM
Please expain this topic to me in 2 sentances, as it's midnight and i'm rather tired.
#13
Posted 10 December 2007 - 06:08 PM
#14
Posted 10 December 2007 - 06:10 PM
And if I do break it, is it recoverable from?
#15
Posted 10 December 2007 - 06:18 PM
That will tell you verything you need to know. I'd suggest getting sleep first and doing this on te weekend, as it might take a little while.
And as long as you've got an Intel Pentium 4/AMD Athlon XP or later processor, it's pretty much impossible for you to fry your processor. If you do push it to the point where it won't even start windows up, the guide also tells you how to fix it.
#16
Posted 10 December 2007 - 09:11 PM
Dude of Wind, on Dec 10 2007, 07:05 PM, said:
Well my new rig is mostly going to be used for the classes I'm taking for the digital media program at my school, and less for gaming, yeah right. So would a higher clock speed improve programs like photoshop, flash, and 3D modelers, or would it slow them down? Because that is what I mainly plan to be useing my comp for, then gaming. Business before pleasure afterall.
#17
Posted 11 December 2007 - 12:04 AM
In other news, the Pentium 4 Socket 423 I have is GHEY and entirely locked, makeing it impossible to overclock. GRAHH. Plus, the reason my upgraded CPU doesn't work is either lack of power available for it, or worse, because the FSB on it is too fast for my system to handle. Yay research.
I WANT A NEW COMPUTER.
#18
Posted 11 December 2007 - 01:47 AM
Dude of Wind, on Dec 10 2007, 10:04 PM, said:
In other news, the Pentium 4 Socket 423 I have is GHEY and entirely locked, makeing it impossible to overclock. GRAHH. Plus, the reason my upgraded CPU doesn't work is either lack of power available for it, or worse, because the FSB on it is too fast for my system to handle. Yay research.
I WANT A NEW COMPUTER.
#19
Posted 11 December 2007 - 01:48 AM
#20
Posted 11 December 2007 - 01:56 AM
Obviously, adjusting the clock multiplier is easiest. However, it's not impossible to OC if it is locked. It's just much more complicated and frustrateing. And time consumeing.
#22
Posted 11 December 2007 - 08:27 PM
But seriously. Dell can suck my balls.
#23
Posted 12 December 2007 - 04:28 PM
#24
Posted 12 December 2007 - 08:54 PM
And Max, do you know where to find DDR2 RAM with ECC? I'd imagine that the ECC chip would make low latency RAM run better at higher speeds.
#25
Posted 12 December 2007 - 09:35 PM
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Posted 12 December 2007 - 09:59 PM
#27
Posted 13 December 2007 - 12:54 PM
#28
Posted 13 December 2007 - 08:14 PM
#29
Posted 13 December 2007 - 09:19 PM
Can you overclock GPUs, though? Mine is a Nvidia 7950 GT.
#30
Posted 13 December 2007 - 11:30 PM