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Do you overclock?

Overclock my rig too!

DFI Lan Party UT 250Gb
AMD 64 Newcastle 3400+ (225 X 12 = 2700 MHz)
Vcore @ 1.55V
Corsair XMS Twin Platinum 2X512megs PC3200 DDR 1Gig Total @ 2.5-3-3-6 1:1
2X Seagate SATA II 80GB Barracuda's in Raid 0
AMD Stock Cooling
Idle at 39C
Load at 52C

100% Stable!!
 
xp1700@2.2ghz - on air - pretty quiet, too... what a chip!
mob2500@2.46ghz
1200mp@1.32ghz
tbird1400@1500

and of course, all the vid cards are hacked and oc'd, too...

who the heck would hang around here if they weren't a twiddler...
 
I've been overclocking since about 85 or 86 (~18 years ago). Back then it was quite the "black art", and since just about no one owned a PC, no one knew anything about it. My first overclock was acheived finding the crystal on the motherboard that supplied the frequency (I think it was like 14.33 MHz) and the figuring out what I "thought" the PC would overclock to. Since 14.33MHz was about triple the 4.77MHz that the computer was running, I went by radio shack and bought a crystal that was right around 21MHz (they were out of stock for a while...weird). Anyway, the result was that I had already upgraded my Intel 8088 to an NEC V20 chip (more efficient at the same speed) and now I had that bad boy cranked up to 7 MHz!!!.

Many games back then were tied to the CPU clock, so at 7 MHz, a good percentage of my games were now too fast to play. Who could imagine a machine faster?!?!?

Joe
 
I might set up a better poll to see the correlation between overclocking and processor brand. I think you're right malak... I'd bet nearly all of the overclocking is done by AMD users. But it would be nice to have a better poll to see for sure.

Anyone else overclock with crystals or is that only Netopia? Sounds cool but it was a little before my time. I don't think I started messing with PCs at all until maybe the very early 90s or late 80s at the earliest.

As far as overclocking, I just recently bought my first non-OEM and non-Intel mobo. This Abit really makes it far easier to have my way with the machine. I just pumped my P4 520 (2.8 Native) to 3.3 on stock voltages with the stock HSF and air cooling.

I'd really love to push it farther, but I don't want to invest in water cooling or up the voltages. I really hope to keep this system for at least 5 years. I don't plan on it being my primary rig that far out, but I'd like to at least have it running something in the future.

I have a Cyrix 486-DX4 50Mhz (made in 93) running until four years or so ago. So I keep these suckers for around 5 years plus or minus 2.
 
Do you currently overclock your beastly rig?
Affirmative

Have you been known to overclock your beastly rig?
Yeah, been doing it for between 6 moths and a year

Do you run AMD or Intel?
AMD
 
I've never needed to OC. Never wanted to. The risk of games not running or hardware failure for the sake of performance I probably wouldn't notice anyway just never appealed to me. Plus I've never done the whole see how many points my rig can score thing, never thought it mattered. My e-penis is just fine without scoring 200 more points on futuremark.
 
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