Wow...just...wow.

[Mkilbride]

http://www.overclockyourcpu.co.uk/N...sport&n=hutchsport&rdt_09d43=aHV0Y2hzcG9ydA==

 

[Z Power]

Good lord, when will these end. I feel bad for those who actually go for it.

 

[RavenTrunks]

Say what you will, but it takes some skill to make a book that thick about just overclocking your cpu.

A cue card would have sufficed for me.

 

[Mkilbride]

Lol, I know, Over-clocking is SO easy, and you can google "Overclocking" and get waaay better guides, most likely. Also, CPU's, Bios, and sockets constantly change, a book on this isn't very helpful at all!

 

[Deathshot]

Never over-clocked **** in my life.

 

[Z Power]

Me too. Don't have the dough to take that kinda risk.

 

[Mkilbride]

Risk? There is like 0% Risk, unless you're utterly retarded.

 

[Z Power]

You are using the component at a far greater clockrate then deemed necessary by the manufacturer. Besides requiring additional cooling and higher power supply, you may actually be reducing the life of the part. In some cases you could even kill the part. Not to mention any instability errors that might pop up.

Am not saying the stuff will always go bad, am sure the majority of gamers are enjoying their over-clocked pcs, but in my case if it blows up on my face, i'd lose whatever gaming capabilities i have. And seeing as the warranty would get void, i'll be pretty much doomed.

 

[Mkilbride]

You're making it out to be far more than it is.

I've been using my computer OC'ed for years now, as long as you have adequate cooling, it's not an issue, I have a 37$ after-market heatsink, and I bought my CPU OEM, so I saved 15$ on it not coming with a HEatsink.

Also, you're wrong about the "far greater clock-rate"

Most CPU's are downclocked, and the ones for sale, like "EXTREME EDITIONS" are over-clocked. Yes, I am reducing the life of the part from 10 years, to 7 years, I think I will upgrade within those 7 years. I am also getting 30-40% more performance as my GFX Card is not being handi-capped by a lower click.

Do you know the difference between a Q6600 and a Q9400? The Q9400 is higher binned, or basically "Thought to be able to withstand more", it is the same CPU, just clocked higher by default. I find anyone who assembles their own computer and does not over-clock is wasting their money. It's like buying a a HD 62'' TV and hooking it up analogue style. These CPU's are -meant- to over-clock, infact...

Inte's Core 2 and Core i7 line over-clocked SO well, with their next line-up they are LOCKING over-clocking, because people didn't buy their high end chips, just bought low-end and over-clocked it. The Core i7 920, 300$, could hit 4.2GHZ on Air! Over 5GHZ on Water, and performs the same as the 1000$ model, for 700$ less. Do you know what the life-span is predicted at by IT Specialists? Still 6 years, which is fine enough. I don't plan to use the same computer for more than 5 years, that is my limit.

 

[-Origin]

Holy ****.

I have a Q6600.

 

[Mkilbride]

I do too, and it was OC'ed @ 3.4GHZ, a full 1GHZ increase, with a minimal increase in temps, my thermal paste ran dry, so I put it down to 3.0GHZ.

The Q6600 was considered a "overclocking King"

What’s clear from our experiences is that the Core 2 Quad Q6600 seems to be that new “bang for buck” processor that, with a little bit of overclocking, is going to net you performance that is going to at least match the Core 2 Extreme QX6850, if not surpass it by some margin. I’m sure there will be some that say “you can overclock the QX6850 as well” – of course you can, but that is not the point.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/cpus/2007/07/25/overclocking_intel_core_2_quad_q6600/1

 

[-Origin]

You sir, are a gentleman and a scholar.

Thank you.

 

[KarrdeKNR]

Eh, I'll OC when I start to feel the pinch. Then I'll pop my 470 up to 800 mhtz and my CPU higher.

 

[Z Power]

You're making it out to be far more than it is.

I've been using my computer OC'ed for years now, as long as you have adequate cooling, it's not an issue, I have a 37$ after-market heatsink, and I bought my CPU OEM, so I saved 15$ on it not coming with a HEatsink.

Also, you're wrong about the "far greater clock-rate"

Most CPU's are downclocked, and the ones for sale, like "EXTREME EDITIONS" are over-clocked. Yes, I am reducing the life of the part from 10 years, to 7 years, I think I will upgrade within those 7 years. I am also getting 30-40% more performance as my GFX Card is not being handi-capped by a lower click.

Do you know the difference between a Q6600 and a Q9400? The Q9400 is higher binned, or basically "Thought to be able to withstand more", it is the same CPU, just clocked higher by default. I find anyone who assembles their own computer and does not over-clock is wasting their money. It's like buying a a HD 62'' TV and hooking it up analogue style. These CPU's are -meant- to over-clock, infact...

Inte's Core 2 and Core i7 line over-clocked SO well, with their next line-up they are LOCKING over-clocking, because people didn't buy their high end chips, just bought low-end and over-clocked it. The Core i7 920, 300$, could hit 4.2GHZ on Air! Over 5GHZ on Water, and performs the same as the 1000$ model, for 700$ less. Do you know what the life-span is predicted at by IT Specialists? Still 6 years, which is fine enough. I don't plan to use the same computer for more than 5 years, that is my limit.

Interesting. Seeing as i never needed to overclock, what i said is pretty much all i knew. The main problem for me right now would be the cooling.

But give me a few years, i might surprise myself with a state of the art overclocked pc. Thanks for the insight. I needed that.

 

[Mkilbride]

Nothing state of the art about it.

Like I said, 37$, bam, I can increase it's performance by 33%, pretty nice, no?

 

[Grega]

All im "overclocking" is my RAM. Though technically im not.

The manufacturer states the best voltage is round 2.1, yet the default in the BIOS is 1.9 so i needed to get it up to speed

 

[hleV]

Risk? There is like 0% Risk, unless you're utterly retarded.

I love you.

 

[Spunky]

Risk? There is like 0% Risk, unless you're utterly retarded.

There's also absolutely no reason to overlock if your system can already handle anything you throw at it. A lot of retards overclock their hardware right out of the box, effectively cutting its lifespan in half at worst. The only risk I can think of is that doing so also voids your warranty with most manufacturers, and you'd be utterly retarded to do that.

Even if you've never had a problem with it, that doesn't really make it a smart move.

 

[The Deco]

Im thinking of overclocking my penis, will this book help?

 

[Mkilbride]

There's also absolutely no reason to overlock if your system can already handle anything you throw at it. A lot of retards overclock their hardware right out of the box, effectively cutting its lifespan in half at worst. The only risk I can think of is that doing so also voids your warranty with most manufacturers, and you'd be utterly retarded to do that.

Even if you've never had a problem with it, that doesn't really make it a smart move.

It's just using it to it's full potential. I'm a techie, and I've never had a reason not to do it, as I've said, it effectively cuts it's life-span from the rated 10 years to 6-7 years, which is fine by me. Most people I know upgrade every 2-3 years, and that's not even techies, it's because they don't take care of their computer, and spill water, get a virus and are way too dumb to remove it, or just don't understand how come having 110 processes makes their computer slow, so they need a new one.