Originally posted by: Sentential
Anandtech is a joke when it comes to helping people out with overclocking to be honest. Most of the threads I have seen here are rants of some shape or fashion; without any basis of fact.
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xtremepnoy if you really would like to learn about overclocking I would ask this same question on
Ocforums. Unlike here they wont say "just google it" :| Plus its a common know fact that the best OCers in the world are not found here but on OCF, XS and XR.
With all due respect, do you think the response to his question would have been any more positive in any of those forums? Posting such a general question, in all caps, is a good way to get flamed. I wouldn't encourage him to ask the very same question anywhere. It shows poor forum etiquette.
Furthermore, there is a fairly nice, generic sticky in this forum about overclocking one's CPU, and a forum search should yield plenty of results regarding the overclocking of 3 ghz Prescotts. Only one person here said GOOGLE IT, and that's the first time I've seen that happen in here.
I've found plenty of experienced OCers in this forum. Information in this forum helped me configure a nice little budget OC rig that got a Palermo 2800+ from 1.6 ghz to 2.32 ghz on stock vcore with stock cooling. Just because every other post here isn't in regards to adventures in phase change overclocking or what not doesn't make the forum bad. Most of the people here are concerned with overclocking on air, which is usually simpler and cheaper. Maybe that doesn't make the regulars here the "world's best overclockers". I could care less. Anandtech regulars have provided myself, and many others, with the knowledge to squeeze a little extra performance out of machines built from commonly-available parts(including Prescotts), and that's why I read and post here.
If the OP would simply do us all a favor and make a reasonably polite and well-ordered request for information, he'll get some, though the usual "lolol get a A64" responses will probably pop up as well. Wait 'til Intel launches some Yonah-based(or derived) desktop CPUs, and the shoe may well be on the other foot.