Overclocking is absolutely nuts!

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I'm new to overclocking, but gave it a go. It was quite easy. But what hit home was just how much free performance it gives. Here's my 6600 benching in sandra 2005:

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Am I reading it right, that my lowly £200 chip is trouncing a £670 X6800 :eek: That's absolutely ludicrous! It's like buying a Fiesta 1.1 bonus, tightening a bolt in the engine bay, and thrashing A veyron at the lights :D Made me grin anyway :p Gotta love o/clocking.
 
LMAO!

you're sort of right.. most of the time the people with the veyron also tighten th nut and up it to F1 performance but some people do just leave it at stock which is worrying.

If you clock your chip to 2.93ghz you have an X6800 @ stock so yes.. its nuts but be careful.. its also addictive!

You have a water/phase cooled pc in no time!
 
Not sure on that matt!! Just got my stereotyped head around the fact that making a cpu faster doesn't mean it will self implode. It's gonna take at least another month for me to overcome the words water, and PC in one sentence ;) :D
 
heh heh heh

it'll happen.. trust me.. the first time you buy a high end hsf and think "this is rubbish.. what else can I get" you're hooked..

water, phase, lns, triple cascades its a slippery slope my friend.. and one I've slipped all the way down.
 
Lol - I read this on another forum recently about OCUK...

"Yes marcus do not ask them which pc to buy becasue unless you spend about £3000 on it to get a 733t unit you will be a newwbie lusser. they all have stupidly quick and fantastic pc's then seem to spend all their life trying to make it quicker and running 3dmark05 thirty times aday whilst tweaking ram latencies."


Came as quite a shock as all I'd been doing today was tweaking my RAM latencies, Graphics cards, and benchmarking. I've become a geek :eek: :D
 
beast said:
Lol - I read this on another forum recently about OCUK...

"Yes marcus do not ask them which pc to buy becasue unless you spend about £3000 on it to get a 733t unit you will be a newwbie lusser. they all have stupidly quick and fantastic pc's then seem to spend all their life trying to make it quicker and running 3dmark05 thirty times aday whilst tweaking ram latencies."


Came as quite a shock as all I'd been doing today was tweaking my RAM latencies, Graphics cards, and benchmarking. I've become a geek :eek: :D
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was that on "flyfishingtoday" forum? because if so its entirely understandable they would think the overclockers forum might be a tad obsessed with overclocking (I wouldn;t go onto the ford focus forum and start whinging about people talking about focuses (or foci as they endlessly discuss).. however if the forum begins with a H then its entirely understandable again as there appear to be a small forum war going on between them.
 
tis a very slippery slope, my friend. started OCing properly when I got my core 2 duo system back in july. I have now ordered a watercooling kit, and I'm going to see how far I can take this E6600.
 
matt100 said:
LMAO!

you're sort of right.. most of the time the people with the veyron also tighten th nut and up it to F1 performance but some people do just leave it at stock which is worrying.

If you clock your chip to 2.93ghz you have an X6800 @ stock so yes.. its nuts but be careful.. its also addictive!

You have a water/phase cooled pc in no time!
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Totally agree with matt here. Just spent a bucket on a custom W/C setup including a daddy Radiator :D
 
Was thinking of sticking the intercooler + Turbo from my car to the chip + watercooling pipes and seeing if I can somehow get the N/A conroe to run boost. Has this been done before :confused: ;) :p :rolleyes:
 
beast said:
Was thinking of sticking the intercooler + Turbo from my car to the chip + watercooling pipes and seeing if I can somehow get the N/A conroe to run boost. Has this been done before :confused: ;) :p :rolleyes:
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I think i remember seeing a post where someone air/water cooled (can't remember :p ) their pc using a car radiator !?

Go for it, i reckon you can have 20psi out of that 6600
 
Car rads (heatercore - same thing) offer good cooling but you need fast (read : loud) fans to get the best out of them. Specialised rads are now much more refined and less restrictive. What was once a niche market is rapidly becoming mainstream. Evolution, gotta love it.
 
Can I just ask, what sort of results / temperatures were you using before the Freezer fan?

I'm currently on the stock fan (only just got the system) with plenty of ventilation and it's topping 60oC+ :eek: when it's video encoding with seems a bit mad to me and it looks like it's throttling the performance.

I was thinking of the Freezer as it's apparently silent but I didn't want it to hold back the potential performance.
 
AF 7 Pro is a great little cooler, dead cheap too. I'll just check what my temps are at the mo...


33-34 idle
50 under load.

My room is cool today, but even with my heater on so it's like the tropics, the temps don't budge above 60C under load.
 
Cheers for temp postings!

I'm thinking of getting the AC7 but am tempted by the huge HSFs...but having to put some of the mounting under the motherboard is putting me off a bit.

Is the general opinion that the AC7 is suitable for overclocking up to X6800 speeds? If so I'll be ordering one tomorrow!

Thanks. :)
 
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