Any of you Overclock?

Megamannt92 2250 points Posted at Saturday 30th May, 17:28 General Discussions, 7 replies, 566 views

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Any of you guys Overclock CPUs, GPUs or anything else? As some of you know, I'm really into PC building these days. :D My running Athlon is running @ 3.1ghz right now.

Here is my best, but Unstable score:[url=http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=575899]

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Specs:
AMD Athlon 64 5000+ X2 @ 3.1ghz on air\Arctic cooler 64 pro
4GB Mushkin DDR2 800 Oc'd to 890mhz
Gigabyte Mobo GA-MA78GM-SH2
Sapphire 4870 1GB
Mushkin 650W Modular PSU.

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niklas 843 points Reply posted at Monday 1st Jun, 11:54

Sounds cool. I'm really bad at overclocking, I did it once and everything turned black and everything was burnt. . At the moment I'm looking to invest in the new Intel i7 series. Do you know if it's worth putting money into that?

spoolworm 2170 points Reply posted at Monday 1st Jun, 13:33

I overclocked my cyrix processor.

Now that's a long time ago. :)

Megamannt92 2250 points Reply posted at Monday 1st Jun, 15:52

Burned? how did that happen? To much vcore?

i7 eh? I have AMD so I don't know much about the newer Intel chips. Those are pretty nice from what I hear, but be sure to get a good Zalman heatsink or something....those chips run hot. What chip do you have now Nick?

As for me, I'm thinking of upgrading to the new Phenom X4 IIs....

Cyrix huh spoolie.....turbo button?

spoolworm 2170 points Reply posted at Sunday 7th Jun, 00:31

@ megaman:
Turbo button - now THAT brings back memories. I actually had one on my old 386. I played dune 2 and this CGA monster truck game on it.

Let me tell you, the dune 2 pc speaker intro soundtrack was better than the soundblaster one!

slayer_man 684 points Reply posted at Sunday 7th Jun, 12:17

Megamannt92 2250 points Reply posted at Monday 8th Jun, 22:07

386 lol, back when command-lines were used! Computers are so much different now, everything is so much more extreme than it used to be. The power used by these new computers is insane...my GPU alone draws about 175W. Old PCs used about 85W for the whole PC.

spoolworm 2170 points Reply posted at Sunday 14th Jun, 18:56

Thanks to dosbox I haven't bought a new pc in 3 years.* Wow.

More than enough games to play.


(*ps3 doesn't count)