curious

[bowhunter]

Help me to understand. Why would you need to overclock. Is it for upgrading without having to buy new components?

Just curious:)

[Sterling_Aug]

The main purpose of overclocking is the "bragging rights".

I did whatever with a so-and-so processor.

My personal purpose of overclocking is to get out every last Mhz of performance that I paid for, but the conservative design would not normally allow me to use.

I am even overclocking my PDA....LOL

[jbell255]

Even though some say thay oc to save $$ on upgrades, they end up having to spend a lot on cooling cause if it aint cooled like a mofo, an oc'd athlon will... well ya know, go ka-poot.:rolleyes:

[XtReAmTwEaKist]

Hehehe.... yea had me an AMD k6-2 333 oc to 388 bu it was a misprint so it had a CXT core in it which was suppost to be at 400MHz got that ***** up to 450
HEhehe...



YELLS COOOOOOOOLING IS HIGHLY NEEDED

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Bragging eh?? -- Like The 1ghz Tbird I've Managed To Get to 1.55 using FSB only -- :):):):), seriously, it saves a lot of money o/c ing eg the 1ghz tbird was like £86 at the time wheras a 1.4ghz was £250 - its was worth the extra £30 in cooling kit thinking back...

[Jimstep]

For me, I like to tinker. I want to tweak some controls and run benchmarks to see what the change did. I also under-clock the processor to see what the benchmarks show. If there is an knob to turn, I'll turn it.

This applies to all devices. I have been having a great time tweaking an nVidia GeForce 3 Ti 200 graphic's card.

I usually end up rebuilding my hard drive from scratch after I get myself backed into a corner and cannot figure a way out.

There are risks in playing with some of the tweaking options. You do it at your own risk.

But, when I have work to do, I leave well enough alone and run as designed. In work mode, I don't have time to waste on system down time.

[rlpos]

I don't really understand big bussiness and maybe some one else could chip in here but as I understand the process of manufacturing processors. They build X amount of these at a time and they only have an idea as to what they should be. Then they test them to see what they will run stable at. Therefore two processors made from the same batch may max out at different speeds for instance. My AMD333 runs at 500 just fine you AMD may only run at 450. So if whoever tested your processor was feeling generous the day he (or she) tested it, it may have maxed out at 550 and they marked it as a 333. As many of us that was around for the muscle car era know, two identical cars built in the same run did not always perform equally

[Bigjakkstaffa]

Yeah - Take heed of jimsteps warning...im getting sick of formatting my hard drives and reinstalling the "lot" again after some tweaking expedition gone wrong, just be sensible with your o/c'ing, remember to always consider heat, and if you decide to do any software tweaking in general use specialist programs or make sure you know what your doing

[arthur888]

rlpos: this AMD333@500 you are talking about, is this a k6-II??? That's a really nice one you have there. Normally K6 series don't overclock too well.... You're very lucky!

[rlpos]

It is a k6-II AMD 333AFR. It ran on stock voltage for several months now I have it at 2.3v

[arthur888]

333 sounds like it originally has a 66mhz bus. What multiplier setting do you use now? 100mhz x 5? You're lucky with this CPU.

[rlpos]

It is a 66mhz cpu. Iam running it on an Aopen AX59pro M/B and at this time I am running it at 5x100 for 500mhz (edit) Iam also using a globalwin heatsink and fan and it runs at 26c at idle and about 32c under load