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Heartbreak one
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 Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 2:12 am Post subject: how do I overclock? |
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It may sound stupid, but I really want to know how you do it.
Last time I tried to overclock, the PC wouldn't boot. I tried to buy a new CPU, motherboard, RAM but the problem was Windows... I put in the installation CD and repaired Windows and it's now working.
I can't take a risk this time, so I want to know exactly how you OC.
My rig:
Motherboard: Asus P5L-VM 1394
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo E4400
RAM: Twinmos 2 X 1GB (can't remember the name)
GPU: Saphire Radeon X1600XT
Well, I guess thats the specs you need to know. |
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JAC
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:03 am Post subject: |
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| Have you tried google? |
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Chiefish
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 6:49 am Post subject: |
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If you dont want to take a risk , than you cant overclock. Anytime youre o/c ing a rig youre taking risks, you could corrupt windows or burn up youre memory and / or cpu or any other componant youre pushing. Best bet is to do alot of reading on the web and then just start out slow with it, noone can tell you exactly how to overclock youre particular rig to its fullest potential because there are way too many variables to consider when doing so. Good luck
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: |
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All the components are made to work stable at a certain frequency, if you are lucky, maybe you can get them to work perfectly with some oc.
You have to think that you don't overclock "your rig", but each component for itself, and then you try all of them together to see if your system is stable.
If you just want some cpu oc; than google for it, that's the most done.
Do some oc after reading a lot of guides and how-to. |
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Heartbreak one
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 8:10 am Post subject: |
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Roger that 
Just one more questions:
When I OCed my old Pentium D 805 on my Asrock MOBO, I could choose from async OCing and sync. The Async worked good, but when I tried sync, Windows got scre**d. Why? |
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Qwerty
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:20 am Post subject: |
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| Heartbreak one wrote: | Roger that
Just one more questions:
When I OCed my old Pentium D 805 on my Asrock MOBO, I could choose from async OCing and sync. The Async worked good, but when I tried sync, Windows got scre**d. Why? |
In synchronous mode the CPU *AND* RAM are overclocked !
If the RAM modules aren't able to handle higher frequences - the OS will crash.
In asynchronous mode the RAM's clock rate remains unchanged. |
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Heartbreak one
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 9:52 am Post subject: |
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Thats how Windows died 
Thanks for the info. |
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Qwerty
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:06 am Post subject: |
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| Heartbreak one wrote: | | I can't take a risk this time, so I want to know exactly how you OC. |
This OC methode is relatively safe:
You can try to set the FSB from 800 to 1066 MHz. In this case your E4400 will run at 2x 2666 MHz.
Make sure your RAM supports 533 MHz clock frequency. (Most DDR2 modules do support it.)
Do not forget good cooling. The CPU temperature shouldn't be more than 50°C @ full load!
I increased the FSB of my system from 1066 to 1333 MHz.
Now my Q6600 (4x 2400 MHz) runs at 4x 3000 MHz with default VCore !
Please note - I don't take any responsibility for my advise ! You overclock your system on your own risk.
There are many forums about overclocking.
IMHO you should visit one of them BEFORE you play with your hardware ! |
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Heartbreak one
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:30 am Post subject: |
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| Qwerty wrote: | | Do not forget good cooling. The CPU temperature shouldn't be more than 50°C @ full load! [...] |
I got an all copper 80mm NorthQ heasink+fan, so I don't think there should be any problems. I just ran SuperPI calculating the 32M but I aborted it after about half an hour and the fan wasn't even working at full speed. the fan speeds are ca. 1800 - 3500 RPM and I had set to about 2600 RPM The temp was about 37C.
| Qwerty wrote: | | Please note - I don't take any responsibility for my advise ! You overclock your system on your own risk[...] |
Of course  |
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Heartbreak one
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 10:56 am Post subject: |
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I've got a PC from my friend, and I'm going to test OC on it  It is a Sempron 3000+ CPU, but I think that it will not be so much different than in my PC.
Don't worry, it would have been thrown away if I didn't took it |
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Qwerty
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:18 am Post subject: |
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| Heartbreak one wrote: | | I've got a PC from my friend, and I'm going to test OC on it It is a Sempron 3000+ CPU, but I think that it will not be so much different than in my PC. |
No, there is a HUGE difference between both systems !
Higher clocked Semprons are almost UN-overclockable. |
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:21 am Post subject: |
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Be careful to go into the bios first in order to know what the mobo will let you change.
And look up in google if a different version of the bios is better or worse for ocing, I had a bios that took away some ram dividers, so I had to reflash with older bios ver (it was a lame low budget gigabyte).
Be careful, if it stinks burnt electric equipment it's bad sign LOL |
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Heartbreak one
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| Posted: Thu Jan 03, 2008 11:43 am Post subject: |
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My friends PC is an HP Pavilion and its BIOS doesn't allow OCing  too bad... |
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