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Geek Culture / Overclocking?

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UnderLord
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Posted: 15th Jun 2007 04:46
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I want to OC my CPU and ram can anyone give me a good site that might list what OC settings people have had luck with for my CPU and ram?

CPU = AMD Athlon XP 3200+
RAM = Corsair Twinx PC3200

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Suicidal Sledder
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Posted: 15th Jun 2007 07:21
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Hey I kind of have a corrisponding question... how do you even OC equipment and does it hurt the hardware? Seems like if something was made to run a certain way and then u try to push it harder than that then you would risk over heating ur cumputer and frying something

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El Goorf
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Posted: 15th Jun 2007 11:11 Edited at: 15th Jun 2007 11:11
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you have a descent cpu and ram to overclock there, i know that because thats the same cpu and ram i overclocked.

overclockers.com has a guide telling you what to do.

OC'ing doesnt harm your pc if you do it moderately, fortunately for me my motherboard has an FSB reset switch that allows me to drop it back down to 100mhz incase i overclock it so high it wont boot up.

i found on my xp3200 that even a 200mhz (10%) overclock returns great improvement, however when i added more ram to my system (was some cheap tack) it suddenly became unstable when overclocked.

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GatorHex
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Posted: 15th Jun 2007 12:23
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If you overclock you will get an unstable PC when you do anything processor intensive like gaming or compiling it's not worth it

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UnderLord
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 06:58
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Quote: "If you overclock you will get an unstable PC when you do anything processor intensive like gaming or compiling it's not worth it"


Depends on your hardware....=)

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bitJericho
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 07:24
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Quote: "If you overclock you will get an unstable PC when you do anything processor intensive like gaming or compiling it's not worth it "


Depends on your overclocking skillz I've had my processor overclocked 20% for the past year and a half, once I got it overclocked. I was also able to *lower* the voltage, it ran cooler than stock.

There's software out there to help you determine a completely stable overclock. You just gotta look.

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Three Score
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 08:11
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not to steal the topic but does anyone know where the crap to find software to overclock an AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ (on Vista)

I have looked everywhere and can't find anything, and my BIOS doesn't have anything for it

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 12:40
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I've found that overclocks of as little as 50mhz can make crashes frequent.


Since the other one was scaring you guys so much...
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Antidote
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 16:07
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I read an article not to long ago by one of the guys at Microsoft that deals with all those error reports and in many instances the program crashes were the result of overclocked processors. If you can find a stable overclock then by all means try it, but if you start getting frequent crashes it's probably time to tone it down a little.


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UnderLord
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 19:45
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My mobo has the ASUS AI OVERCLOCKER which came built into the mobo but its a piece of junk as it will only OC the CPU 100mhz and thats it, i'v heard of people getting my CPU to 2.5 or 2.6ghz and it being stable =(

But anyhow im not gonna overclock until i get my new 140 fans and i need to find some mesh covers for those fans too =)

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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 20:19
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Why bother, with that hardware it's not going to make any real kind of difference. Also bare in mind, that if you are using basic fan coolers in hot weather, there is a chance that the thing will have overheating problems. And if you've got the money to get decent cooling you might as well buy an upgrade and sell the old components on eBay. Also if this is for gaming purposes, then frankly overclocking the CPU won't make a great deal of difference anyway as it's really the GPU that handles graphical performance these days. Any game that doesn't rely upon the GPU rather than CPU, is so old that again overclocking is going to make virtually no difference at all.

If you only have one PC, and can't replace the loss of your current one, I highly recommend that you simply leave your system as it is, and start saving up for upgrades/ a new PC.
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dab
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Posted: 16th Jun 2007 21:07
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If you have a Nvidia GPU, it comes with an outclocker on their new control panel, you just have to make a small registery edit to get it to show up. I Don't remember how to do it though. I'll post it up though.

Open up Reg Edit (Winkey+r, type in regedit)
Goto This directory on the folder view:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE -> SOFTWARE -> NVIDIA Corporation ->Global -> NVTweak

You shold click on NVTweak so you can see the items in it.
I beleive you now create a new dword entry. Name this entry coolbits and give it a balue of 3.

Restart your pc, and you can open up the Nvidia control panel, click on 3d Settings, and it'll be there. It should at least.

I hope these directions are correct.
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