Persuading my dad?

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I recently bought a e2180, planning on overclocking it. My dad read up on it and has told me hes not going to let me. He said its plenty quick enough as it is at 2.0GHz. I just wanted it to be a little faster.

Any tips on how to persuade him? Unless of course i do it without him knowing. :p He would find out though.
 
Hmm yeah, but i cant exactly go out and buy a better heatsink. I need to do it through his credit card. :mad:
 
Point him to this forum, he'll soon change his mind. :rolleyes:

Who's PC is it - yours or his? Oh and if you go to a PC shop, you wont have to worry about your dad opening the mail. Get yourself down Fenton.
 
Find a use for your PC that required more than 2GHz of speed - benchmark it and show your dad comparitive benchmarks. Show him a list of requirements for what you're doing that reccomends more than 2GHz on a dual core duo.

Then show him a graph with percentage of overclocks causing chip failure vs performance gain. You should be able to run a pole on an overclocking forum (not sure if you can do it here).

With this data you will be able to prove his statement wrong (that 2GHz is fast enough) thus providing him with no arguement to stop you overclocking the machine. I imagine he'd be pretty impressed at your resourcefulness as well.

Alternatively - if you are feeling lazy/evil you can use windows overclocking tools in just your profile on the machine. These will let you OC in windows (not as much fun at all). Also you can overclock slightly on the stock cooler - it's just loud. Monitor temps carefully when OCing as always.
 
dr. sarf said:
Who's PC is it - yours or his?
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Mine :rolleyes: Stil, he doesnt want me blowing my cpu. :cool:

Chris Beard said:
Find a use for your PC that required more than 2GHz of speed - benchmark it and show your dad comparitive benchmarks. Show him a list of requirements for what you're doing that reccomends more than 2GHz on a dual core duo.

Then show him a graph with percentage of overclocks causing chip failure vs performance gain. You should be able to run a pole on an overclocking forum (not sure if you can do it here).

With this data you will be able to prove his statement wrong (that 2GHz is fast enough) thus providing him with no arguement to stop you overclocking the machine. I imagine he'd be pretty impressed at your resourcefulness as well.

Alternatively - if you are feeling lazy/evil you can use windows overclocking tools in just your profile on the machine. These will let you OC in windows (not as much fun at all). Also you can overclock slightly on the stock cooler - it's just loud. Monitor temps carefully when OCing as always.
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I may find a program which needs more than 2.0GHz. Reckon premiere does?
 
Tell him its to get the best performance from your gfx card as at stock speeds the cpu is crippling the cards performance (bit ott but it will be bottlenecking it a bit), i assume you already have the 8800gtx? If not, ignore this post ;)
 
rxmac said:
Tell him its to get the best performance from your gfx card as at stock speeds the cpu is crippling the cards performance (bit ott but it will be bottlenecking it a bit), i assume you already have the 8800gtx? If not, ignore this post ;)
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already have the gtx. :D
 
Hehe well theres your reason for overclocking then "but dad i spent (insert price here) on the gfx card and its a waste of money unless i tweak the cpu to match it"

Use "tweak" as it might not sound so bad as "overclock".
 
Overclocking your CPU is safe, considering you're not an idiot, which you clearly aren't otherwise you wouldn't have asked here ;).
 
heh thanks, im not going to go mad with it id be happy with 2.6GHz :rolleyes:

And yeah, il use the word 'tweak'.
 
Theres 2 ways to destroy a CPU... silly amounts of voltage and (usually caused by the former) running it for a long time at silly temperatures...

If you overclock it without touching the vcore (and with the core2 you should be able to get a decent overclock) its as close to 100% safe as your ever going to get.

However make sure you do run the appropriate stress tests for memory and cpu or you risk instability with your system.
 
Turn speedstep on?

Who's money bought the processor?

thats where the decision relies really unless you are given permission to do so, or you could put speedstep on after you have got the required result so you will only notice the differance when the cpu is on load. never tried it but as long as someone can confirm it works should be fine :)
 
I have speedstep enabled with my Q6600 @ 3Ghz, although I have heard it can cause instabilities with some overclocks, so just double check it for stability when enabled :cool:
 
Looks like il have to persuade him with the whole "whats the point in having a good graphics card if the cpu is letting it down". :rolleyes:
 
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