Am I the only person overclocked 24/7?

Cyber-Mav

Cyber-Mav

Cyber-Mav

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as the title says, iv seen many posts now where people can;t maintain their clocks in this heat wave in the uk. odd though since im not sure how the rest of you are overclocking your machines or testing them since it seems there are very few people who can even run cpu tests in this heat.

my room is 31c at the moment and its bloody hot in here. my case temps are at 37c and my cpu at max load in snm peaks at 53c. iv had no crashes what so ever and iv not touched my overclock at all, still at 2.9ghz air cooled.

was wondering who else is with me running thier overclock 24/7 and is stable regardless of how hot the weather gets?
 
Cyber-Mav said:
as the title says, iv seen many posts now where people can;t maintain their clocks in this heat wave in the uk. odd though since im not sure how the rest of you are overclocking your machines or testing them since it seems there are very few people who can even run cpu tests in this heat.

my room is 31c at the moment and its bloody hot in here. my case temps are at 37c and my cpu at max load in snm peaks at 53c. iv had no crashes what so ever and iv not touched my overclock at all, still at 2.9ghz air cooled.

was wondering who else is with me running thier overclock 24/7 and is stable regardless of how hot the weather gets?
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Im the same as you my friend :)



My room temp is 24 at the moment, with the window open, according to my front display panel my cpu only got to 35-37 degrees whilst playing BF2, thats with nearly 500 CFM Of air going through the case though :)
 
your lucky you can open your windows and lower temps. its hard enough keeping cool here with a busted desk fan that keeps on rattling since its bearings are shot from 24/7 operation.

and i dare not open the windows, especially with the Moth Mafia just waiting to get in :eek:
 
I had the Moth Mafia earlier, i trapped a huge on inside a pint glass the turned the glass upside down and trapped it in the glass with the light bulb kindof burning / blinding it,

It flapped around and was clearly blind. I threw it out of the window and closed it, 5 seconds later it was attacking the window :eek:

So i turned off my pc room light and re-opened it :D, No more moths :D


I do live in the countryside aswell so i can't hear cars etc and people yelling :)
 
Moths are nasty and stupid too. if they manage to get inside my room all they do is fly around in circles around my light bulb but they never land on it. im nto sure what they are trying to accomplish though :confused:

as for overclocking, my technique was to use a fan heater to fire hot air into the front intake on my case and try to regulate the case temp at 40c. then i did all my overclocking tests which help to simulate a hot environment.

so it does not bother my pc at all when i play games all day in this heat wave. its brilliant stuff.
 
your opty is running below stock volts compared to most x2's, my x2's stock volts are 1.4V so for overclocking i have to put it up to 1.5V and higher therefore too much heat thats why ive done various tests and on stock volts my x2 4800 only gets 100MHZ overclock pretty poor but if i want more it gets too hot, but it is overclocked 24/7 even tho its just by 100mhz but that is on 2 cores, 2 cores at 2.5ghz is fast enough to do anything nowadays anyway so im not bothered
 
my Opty 144 does 2.6ghz on stock volts and 2.75ghz at 1.45v

Cyber-Mav said:
as for overclocking, my technique was to use a fan heater to fire hot air into the front intake on my case and try to regulate the case temp at 40c. then i did all my overclocking tests which help to simulate a hot environment.

so it does not bother my pc at all when i play games all day in this heat wave. its brilliant stuff.
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bit extreme eh? what happend to just cranking up the speed till it smokes? :p
 
I think you'll probably find a lot of people whimping out thinking 40 idle for their cpu is too much and pulling their clocks back. Not the fact that they cease to work in this heat.

Not many people seem to appreciate that modern chips have thermal protection built in so its pretty damn hard to break them with heat. If a few extra degrees on the temp is enough to start it bluescreening etc then chances are it wasn't 100% stable in the first place, its just the heat has exposed that a bit more.
 
X2 3800+ sitting under a Ninja. 49 degrees after 3 hours folding on both cores. voltage at 1.41. It was clocked to this the day I got it and I have never lowered it since.
 
All of my rigs are overclocked and folding 24/7. Lowest oc is 400MHz.

I do have 2 rigs down at the moment but as I'm away, I don't know what has stopped them (may be heat, may be people interfering) but the other 4 are doing fine.

Stan :)
 
I dont mind Moths coming into the room. but its wen the g/f cracks up and starts screaming as if its a ******* tiger of something thats gonna bite a leg off that rags me.

As for temps i just turn the machine of if the room gets 2 warm. I cant stick a lot of heat, the heat + ginger hair do not mix
 
I don't have a system running at the moment, but if I did the clocks would be the same as always. They were last summer anyway.

The joys of phase change. :D :p
 
My Oppy is still sat at 2.4GHz, don't need it any faster than that but temps are fine. Might see how toasty it gets running at 2.75 24/7
 
I always run overclocked, system may get a little warm but it can handle it..
My X2 4400+@2700 is getting upto 57C in the recent heatwave, mobo is around 40C.

Its also one of the first 4400+'s which uses slightly more power and gets a bit warm as a result. :p
 
my o/c has been in effect since the day i got the cpu pretty much apart from when i tried going higher.

opty 144 at 2.84ghz, never seen it go above 47degrees
 
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