Winter is coming...

[Deadbeat]

...and electricity is cheaper than gas. So I'm gonna go for my first ever overclock.

Just wanted to know how people dealt with their first. Were you supervised? I can't manage that, my computer monkey likes 350 miles away now. Did you have a solid idea of exactly what you were doing? Not just the steps, but the theory behind it? My knowledge of computing is limited to that which allows me to sneer at the leyman, but I always like to try new things. I'm just hoping the Corsair H50 goes on TWO soon.

 

[mac1st3]

look into the overclocking section of the forums, some really helpful guides and step by step processes in there

 

[blix]

There's not really much theory behind it and it's pretty much risk free unless you're really stupid.

 

[Deadbeat]

Good. That's... yeah. Reassuring. Now not only is my rig on the line, but my groundless superiority complex, too. I could lose it all in one fell keystroke.

 

[bullit in head]

well the problem comes from when you over do it and it fails to boot,, as long as you know the procedure for hardware reseting the bios then go for it, you cant really kill anything,.. although I have found it to be usefull to have a spare computer that can access the internet to ask for help on forums like this.

bullit

 

[blix]

Good. That's... yeah. Reassuring. Now not only is my rig on the line, but my groundless superiority complex, too. I could lose it all in one fell keystroke.

If you follow the advice on here it'll be fine.

 

[( |-| |2 ][ $]

Electricity is not cheaper than gas, per Kwh.

 

[taB]

Thought this thread would be about George Martin getting off his backside and finishing that book.

 

[Windle]

We had snow in Scotland yesterday

 

[Cosimo]

We had snow in Scotland yesterday

Did it help with overclocking.

 

[Windle]

Did it help with overclocking.

If you stick your case in it then yes

 

[waso_dude]

It was ******* cold this morning, window open overclocking timee

 

[lumpeh]

Haven't had the radiator on in my room for years thanks to my pc

 

[JBuk]

I'm going to overclock my electric radiator to 5kw

 

[Malt_Vinegar]

I used to run water-cooling, and would hang my external rad out the window on really cold days. Used to bring that 1.4 T-bird down a few degrees

 

[Mr Jones]

I'm going to overclock my electric radiator to 5kw

Pfff... my fan heating thinggy should overclock to 10KW with my new minifridge cooling system next to it.

 

[qqg3]

Aint cold here, t-shirts and shorts weather! Winter ... pfff

 

[dante6491]

I used to run water-cooling, and would hang my external rad out the window on really cold days. Used to bring that 1.4 T-bird down a few degrees

Snap. Athlon 3700+ running at 20'C @ 3.2Ghz