Overclocking

[WiseGuy]

How many of you do it, and how are your specs?

I just recently spent a good amount of hours trying to OC my Opteron 165, and let me tell you i am quite upset with the results. It was supposed to be a beast but it turns out i got my hands on a shitty ass one. Its being a real pansy. Mine topped out on the low end with a stable 600Mhz gain. From 1.8 to 2.4, only 133.5%. I was quite upset when i couldn't break the 270FBS mark considering Syn hit 333Mhz with his.

I now have it sitting at 267Mhz x9.0 ( locked multiplier) with the appropriate Ram, HT and Voltage adjustments.

So lets hear your stories!

[manofphat]

I'm no good at it...so it's a bad idea for me lol

[Xzinum]

I haven't OC'ed since 1999

[ORION]

I took my CPU up an extra 10% from 3.0Ghz to 3.3, which gave me a solid 10-15 fps increase with CS and considering it's a P4 that aint too shabby. atm my pride for OC'ing is my gfx card, which after several custom cooling hard-mods goes from a core of 350mhz and a memory clock of 500mhz(x2) to a core of 480mhz and a memory clock of 675mhz(x2), thats 37% on the core and 35% on the memory, and all without any noticeable changes in stability or temperature. Sadly, i couldn't get the extra pipes outa this 6800XT but an extra 35-37% out of a $<200 card with a heatsink from a p2 (circa 1995) is something I dont mind bringing up ^.^

[Landspeed]

Winston our Video cards are OC'd

[silence]

my gaming pc isnt OC'd but it is able to safely OC itself to 110% of norm on the fly. as long as u dont mind it crashing when u slow it back down to 100% later it works just fine. i personally doing bother doing that OC though my AMD Athlon64 3500+ is just fine @ it's normal specs...

[ORION]

Winston our Video cards are OC'd

Factory OC'ing shouldn't count, OC'ing should be limited to something
YOU did
AFTER you purchased teh card/chip that
*probably
VOIDED the warranty.

and plz when referring to increases in clock speed refer to gains alone (ie +30%) cause that 110% made me do a double take. :)

[silence]

lol i rightly pwned ORION's original perception of OC'ing ^^

[manofphat]

We soft modded our x800GTO²'s to x850 XT PE's

[ORION]

Touché

[Calamity Gundam]

With Wise's help I managed to overclock my Athlon 64 3000+ (1.8 GHz) to 2.4GHz without any additional cooling equipts'.

It does not up my FPS too much, but the quality of the rendering is better now. FPS fluctuates less. Overall a better experience. Installing stuff also takes far less time :)

[Mike-KT]

Wise is going to OC my computer in the summer term.


Right Peter?

[WiseGuy]

Wise is going to OC my computer in the summer term.


Right Peter?
lool.... i guess so?

[Zimba]

haha i overclocked my geforce2 mx400 to 275mhz and it ran stable some how...haha

[Calamity Gundam]

haha i overclocked my geforce2 mx400 to 275mhz and it ran stable some how...haha

Are you still using that geforce 2 Zimba? Thinking of upgrading soon?

[gOOCH]

i thought i busted my gfx card overclocking, but it was just the difference between and vga and dvi cable

[WiseGuy]

i used to overclock my GPU but then i realized it wasnt worth it... i could get between 8-10 &#37; out of it before my textures on CSS started glitching. I guess thats what u get with u buy a GPU thats already 10-15% faster than its stock counterpart.

[Zimba]

Are you still using that geforce 2 Zimba? Thinking of upgrading soon?

nah i got the 7900gt, i pimped the shit out of my old pentium 2 which i was referring to

[mfkr]

I want to overclock my Athlon 2200 but have no freaking clue how to do it.

[WiseGuy]

I want to overclock my Athlon 2200 but have no freaking clue how to do it.

http://www.google.ca/search?q=how+to+overclock+my+athlon+2200 :D

[Wesley Crusher]

Even my Pentium MMX is overclocked. 225 MHz baby.

[WiseGuy]

hahaha i have a pentium MMX, but ur a daredevil to OC it :P the MMX is just the regular P1 Chip OC'd from 166 to 200 isnt it?

[Zimba]

hahaha i have a pentium MMX, but ur a daredevil to OC it :P the MMX is just the regular P1 Chip OC'd from 166 to 200 isnt it?

thats what ive heard too, ive also heard that the pentium 2s performed better in some aspects than the pentium 3s due to its structure...cant back this up 100&#37; though

[pig]

i oc'd
the shit out of my 2500+ haha


i also ocd my x1600 here
got amazing performance out of it.
before hand i was running about 70-80 stock fps, now about 178-180 oc'd fps.

oc ftw.

[Wesley Crusher]

MMX added extensions for "enhanced multimedia playback", but it's basically just a hardware extension for faster math operations.
MMX is the precursor to SSE2, SSE3, now SSE4.
I think they came as Pentium 166 MMX all the way to 233 MMX.

Pentium MMX chips required special voltage regulator modules (VRMs) on your motherboard, so you had to purchase either an MMX capable board, or upgrade yours.

Pentium 3s are all faster than Pentium 2.

I think what you meant to say is that some Pentium 1 MMXs are faster than the original Pentium 2 Celeron chips (the original 266 and 300, NON-A versions.)

Celeron A's (300A) added back the missing L2 cache and became an overclocker's dream. :)


Oh! I should add, I overclocked my Pentium Pro 180 MHz to 200 MHz back when it was my router :) Now that thing was a beast.

[syndrome]

wise your mobo could be holding you back.

[WiseGuy]

syn, im sure it is... its loaded with OC safety crap... it prevents the system from booting cuase its gay, once i do get it booted it runs terribly stable and at low temps, its total gayness..


also, i think what zimba meant to say b4 his sources got crossed, is that the P3's ourperform P4's in certain types of calculations due to their architecture.. the P4's are essentially built shittier but have something like a 22 stage pipeline... now im getting this from what my proff was tellin us in a lecture 6 months ago so my numbers may be off a little bit.

[Wesley Crusher]

Yeah clock for clock the P3 > P4, because of the huge pipeline in the P4's Netburst architecture. The P3 1+ GHz were tearing up the P4 1.4 GHz... I remember when my friend down the street showed me his new IBM P4 1.4 GHz and paid 6k for it... I was laughing pretty hard... and it had a TNT2 m64 to boot. ahahaha...

[pig]

6k?
holy fuck,
io paid 900 for c2e6 + x1600 + case + mobo.

[The Killing Joke]

Edited for truth:


I like to Touché myself at night.

Nobody is safe!

[ORION]

Edited for truth:



Nobody is safe!

Where the fuck did that come from ??? lol.

[gOOCH]

lol thats what happens when u have kids

[pig]

lol @ gooch.

like he would know

[The Killing Joke]

Hey - Gooch is still a kid, so I'm sure he's speaking from experience... :))

[gOOCH]

lol i sorta posted without thinking, but i had this teacher last year who had a kid during the semester, and you could see that some mornings he looked super tired, so hed randomly have mood swings and flip out on the class or kids
it was history class, and the teacher had served in the army, and this one girl didnt know what d day was, and he flipped out

[Crayola]

AND to make it even worse, she said saving private ryan was one of her favourite movies

[gOOCH]

lol house

[pig]

lol @ the noob girl.

spr is a wicked movie though.

[The Killing Joke]

Saving Private Ryan is a horrible movie, with a good (not great) premise that's killed by Tom Hanks character.

Imagine this - you've done three tours in Vietnam, and you're told you can go home after going to the front and retrieving one Private Ryan, who has the unfortunate consequence that all three of his brothers have just been killed.

Private Ryan says, "damn it, Imma stayin' and finishin' this last mission!"

What do you do? You stay and help him, risking personal danger and even the possibility of imminent death?

HELL NO! You shoot him in the leg, and carry his sorry ass home! That's what would happen in my movie! He's already cost you the lives of some of your men, and he has the gall to say he's sticking around? Screw that.

Some of the best movies about historical events had little to no 'backstory', because the event itself propagated and carried the movie. Movies like Saving Private Ryan, Titanic and Pearl Harbor could have taken a cue from these, and not made their backstory so strong. Let the events speak for themselves.

Saving Private Ryan - two thumbs down.:mad:

[gOOCH]

i dont value that movie for its plot, i value it for the death of vin diesel and the world war 2 action

[pig]

lmfao

i agree with gooch. When i saw that nazi diesel die i cheered.

[aftersh0ck]

"We should watch Saving Private Ryan!"
"YEAH that's my favourite movie!"

"You want to watch a movie about D-Day?"

"What's D-Day?"

...

[EyeMaster]

Athlon XP 2800+ runs at 2.089 Ghz.

It's OC'd to 2.3xx or so making it like an Athlon XP 3000+ or 3200+, had to put the voltage a .10 higher, change the heatsink for a copper one.

[gOOCH]

i oced my 6600 to 2.88 with 1.23 volt,i could probably go lower on the volts