All you non overclockers tell me why you don't overclock?

I'm glad I started this thread as its evident that the reason people don't overclock, well some who have posted here ,are clearly misinformed about the whole process.

I have a heavily overclocked conroe rig and its cool quiet and super fast.

212 you can have a cool and quiet system when overclocking you know ;)
 
TBH I came from the same rig...

Opty 170 @ 2.8ghz 1.375v

cool quiet and fast.

However conroe at 3.8ghz is an etirely different story lol


Faster and cheaper than my opty 170 that was bought for 299 on release.
 
wizardmaxx said:
Have u updated bios at all, cos asrocks should overclock more than that !!!
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Asrocks are rubbish overclocking mobo's on the conroe platfrom up to now.


With a max overclock of 300 FSB

making a 6300 into a 6400 thats it.Thats as far as you can go with them.
 
Tute said:
Thing about overclocking is, if you know what you're doing, it's great. If you don't, then don't bother, and don't try learning. Computers know if you're an overclocking beginner. And they just won't move far from stock settings.

I am walking, living proof of this fact.
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I have never heard so much rubbish in my life lol :p


Your trying to clock a mobo thats not a good clocker.

300 x 7 = 2.1ghz thats as far that you will get with that mobo.
 
Tute said:
It doesn't even have proper voltage selections.

With Core voltage, you have 2 choices: Auto and Normal.

With RAM voltage, you have 4 choices: Low, Medium, High, and Auto.

I mean WTF is Low, Normal, and High in terms of voltage?

This still doesn't really excuse me from not trying it with the 2600XP+ and 3400DTR though. :o
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Its not an overclockers mobo!
 
OC_A64 said:
Don't agree with the "free performance" side of things, some people who want to get the max from their systems spend extra to get decent memory, PSU, cooling etc.
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Is doesn't need extra money to get a

DS3
6300
and some DDR2 ram to get a 1ghz Free perfromance clock.

All that is needed is a better cooler than the stock one.


This setup will allow you to have a faster pc than a 6800 conroe costing 700 quid.

This is performance for free.

So don't get you at all lol!
 
lay-z-boy said:
it is easy, just hit del at the post and change your fsb upwards slowly (5mhz at a time) using some form of stress testing each clock up to check its all good and well.
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There's abit more to it than that.

But with a bit of research and tweaking great results can be achieved.
And if you are careful and sensible its perfectly safe. :)
 
Two things kill cpu's


Heat and Voltage.

If you have sensible volts and nice cooling then no harm will come to the cpu.


My last opty 170 was prime stable at 2.8ghz 1.375 volts.

The stock voltage of this chip was 1.35volts.

The temps where well within specs for the chip and it ran cool.

Do you think running the chip 24/7 with a tiny bump in voltage would kill it?

No.

Do you think that running the chip 800 Mhz faster than what it said on the box would kill it?

No.

There would be no reason whatsoever why that chip would fail.

Making a cpu run faster than spec does not kill cpu's.Overclocking does not kill cpu's

Have rubbish cooling and go crazy with the volts and over time the CPU will be affected.But keep things sensible and the chip will easily outlast the time you have it.
 
But you can get a gaming rig for 350 which is based on a E6300 and overclock it to a speeds that would cost well into the thousands to achieve.
 
div0 said:
you'd be better off overhauling the whole setup and buying some cheap components again, that will no doubtedly offer a far bigger increase than even the best overclock on such outdated hardware ever could!
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:eek:
 
div0 said:
what is that shocked look for?!

you think that overclocking 3 or 4 year old hardware is worth it?

comming from someone who seems to upgrade things every few months, I'm not sure what your point is?

You think I should overclock something like a P4 / 9600xt instead of spending a few hundred pounds on something like a 6300 and a 1900xt?

LOL, just LOL
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Indeed,

Whats wrong with clocking that P4?

If its a northwood then what have you been waiting for!

So you will go out and get a 6300 and run it at stock?

LOL, just LOL :D
 
div0 said:
Well its not overclocked because it still does what I want :D

But if in a few months time it isn't doing what I want, then yes I'll go out and buy something like a 6300 and run it at stock. And it'll do far more than I need it to, so I won't feel the need to overclock.

I can't believe that someone like yourself, who spends almost as much on a graphics card as I would on a whole machine, is suggesting that I should spend time overclocking hardware that is over 3 years old, instead of getting a huge increase by spending a couple of hundred pounds on new hardware.

Its honestly just laughable!! There's a huge irony in what you're saying and I can't believe that you don't see it!
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This notion that overclocking takes up loads of time is myth and should stop now.

I have just overclocked a mates aging 2.8ghz northwood to 3.6ghz.Its 3 years old.

He added another gig of ram and got a 7600 GT GFX card.

Its now just given a new lease of life into this system.So I can't believe that you don't see it.

What is laughable is getting a 6300 and running it at stock.

In five mins I could have that cpu running at 3ghz fully stable out pacing a 700 quid extreme edition.With no ill effects.

In fact the chances are that a 6300 would do 2.8ghz on stock voltage so all you would have to do it change 3 digits in the bios from 266 to 400.

Why anyone would not do this and have performance for free is beyond me. :confused: :p
 
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