Anyone else seen the "Ultimate Overclocking Guide"?

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Was looking around a large newsagents today (can I say its name as its not in competition with OCUK?) and looking for Custom PC, PC Format and such like I normally buy, and there amongst them was a 200+ page mag/book called The Ultimate Overclocking Guide and its made by the PC Format lot.

Just wondering if anybody has bought it and found it useful? I had a quick look through, and it seemed to be 200 pages of cooling and 20 or so of overclocking haha. Plus it seemed rather usless, I was hoping for in depth info on things like the different voltages (PLL, Term, GTL refs etc) but couldnt find it anywhere. The "basic" guide just said up the fsb, and the "advanced" guide basically covered upping the Vcore... hardly what I'd call advanced :p

There was some stuff that looked usefull, overclocking RAM and adjusting the timings, overclocking the GPU, just things that are often second place to CPU OCing.

Never the less, I put it back down, not least because they were asking £15 for it!! Pretty much everything in there Ive found out already from reading these forums haha. Anyway, has anybody bought it/seen it? Just wondering if my quick skim through is wrong and its actually helpful or not?
 
Saw this in a newsagents as well, bit pointless, as like you say all this info can be found using various forums or google searching.
 
i saw it

i laughed

i love how its in a secretive bag to keep the noobs out


currently, i am sitting in front of the ultimate overclocking guide

its called the 'internet'


you cant cover all bases in a guide
its pointless
you have to learn from trial and error - research your own hardware and hope for the best
 
THE ULTIMATE GUIDE buy it now, got to be good it's the ULTIMATE GUIDE it's all in the title .................. mad not to if your into ULTIMATE overclocking ................ :)
 
200+ pages on how to overclock? I'm sure it could be explained in about 4 pages?

The internet will be the death of fatuous printed media.
 
I think it sounds like an interesting book, not sure it's something I feel the need to buy but if it was in the library or sitting on a mates bookshelf I would certainly read it. As much as we would like to consider ourselves Experts the simple fact is there is always scope to learn . . . that is unless you actually know everything! :p

And it's a valid point you make about the information being freely available on the internet but the same could be said for cook books and other technical manuals, at this stage there are lots of people who enjoy reading books so it's logical there is a market for this kinda product, sorta thing you could paw through while laying on a sunny beach on holiday! :cool:

I think if people are prepared to buy a Pre-Overclocked system or bundle (i.e pay somebody else £££ to do the technical stuff) then it makes sense there is a niche for these technical publications for those users who feel they would like to have a go themselves, live and let live! :)
 
mrthingyx said:
200+ pages on how to overclock? I'm sure it could be explained in about 4 pages?
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Well yea, overclocking was covered in about 20 pages (covering AMD's, Intel and a special bit on i7's) with the rest about different cooling... or thats what it looked like to me.

And yea, I know what you mean Wayne, I will happily buy a guide on somthing if its worth the money... I just didnt see this as worth it. Simply the fact that the "advanced overclocking" section was basically increasing the Vcore lol
 
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