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How are current gen CPUs overclocked?

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I have been out of overclocking for at least 4 years now. My current stuff is all Socket A.

Do AM2/940/939 and C2Q/C2Ds still require fiddly hacks like using pencil lead to join bridges under a magnifying glass?

Or is it all bios based ?
 
its all bios based unless you are an extreme modder with a unlimited budget to buy countless chips in an attempt to get the worlds fastest home cpu by quite a margin by trying pencil mods or other mods
 
So does overclocking still cause high temperatures whereby you have to add noisy Delta fans to prevent a Krispy Fried Chip?

Is it all done with matching the right RAM speeds to the processor or just getting the highest speed RAM you can afford?
 
RAM has gotten very fast and very cheap. Depending on the CPU being overclocked even some of the dirt-cheap RAM will do for very nice high overclocks. OC'ing still increases temps, of course, but heatsinks have gotten huge and tend to use multiple heatpipes and slow 120 mm fans to do their work so they're pretty quiet. Cases have gotten much better as well. The average is much better than back in the Globalwin days. :D

For instance a Q6600 under a Tuniq Tower with some 40 quid PC2-6400 would overclock on an Asus P5K to about 3.0-3.4 Ghz effortlessly and to about 3.4-3.6 GHz with some tweaking.
 
I've currently got a Chieftech Dragon case, is this still worth holding onto for my intended quad core or are the current cases much better insulated and more feature laden.

E.g. all the fan mounts are 80mm not 120mm.
 
I've got a Swiftech heatsink which is too heavy for the clips so has to be installed on on lugs and screws either side of the motherboard and springs to prevent it crushing the cpu core.

Installing and removing this is a mammoth task as it means removing the mobo from the case to get to the underside of the mobo.

Are overcocking heatsinks still using such cumbersome methods?
 
hi, i'm thinking of having a bash at overclocking my 4200x2, but you mention that asrock boards are not so good at overclocking or are you talking about asus?

also you say overclocking produces more heat, so i'm guessing it consumes more electrisity aswell?

i have a few questions

1) i would be overclocking for crysis mainly, is it worth it?

2) i have 2gb ddr2 -800 ram, with a stock cooler on the 4200x2, how far could i overclock it?

3) how do you overclock :) is it just by increasing the frequency from 200mhz to say 260mhz?. I have a asrock Alive2 GLAN mobo by the way.

thanks
 
i don't think i'll bother as now, i was just reading the begginers overclocking guide and the warning put me off, does it realy void your warranty? or risk killing the windows install?
 
Yes, but then again there's risk in everything. The next time you switch your PC on the power supply might burst into flames and burn down your house. I don't think there's much likelihood of it though. A lot of people overclock and yet there are very few horror stories to be told.
 
the new am2+ motherboards (e.g MSI K9A2 Platinum) are easy to overclock the cpu,memory,timings because it can be all done from within windows , no need to go in to the bios to do it
 
Some (but not all) of Asrock's AMD based boards were much better at overclocking than the Intel ones because they used more modern different chipsets. In theory overclocking invalidates your warranty but there's no way they could know. That said, I'm not sure an X2 4200 really needs overclocking for most tasks.
 
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