Overclockers are beginning to annoy me..yet I am one

[LostHiWay]

Ok here goes....

My friend just bought a new Epox 8KHA+ at a computer show this past weekend. I went over to help out with putting it in and stuff since I have the same board. Now I have mine running at 150fsb rock stable (prime95 for 48hrs). So we get it going and it's running great at default settings. We have XP installed and everything. I tell him to break it in a liitle bit at default and then start overclocking a liitle at a time until he finds the sweet spot.

So after I leave he must start reading stuff on the net about people clocking there 8KHA+ boards up to 166fsb and above. So he assumes that he should be able to get to 165fsb easy. I guess he tried and tried but the highest he could get was 159fsb stable. He then has the nerve to call me up and start yelling that I told him to buy a POS board that can only get up to 159fsb stable!! So he's going to RMA the board. For what I have no clue. I guess just to raise prices for everyone else.

I swear some overclockers are never happy.

 

[punkrawket]

sounds like somebody has issues with their friends......


i have one like that too

 

[2336]

Does the manufacturer guarantee the overclocking capabilities of that motherboard? Probably not! I think you might want to smack your buddy! RMA the MoBo, yeah right! If he's that unhappy with it, and thinks it's that much of a POS I'll buy it from him for 50% of what he paid for it, okay?<<Grins sarcastically!>>

 

[Harvey]

Hi. My name is Harvey, and I'm an overclockaholic. :Q

<< Hi, Harvey >>

I can't seem to help myself. My Celeron 300A did 450 without breaking a sweat on my Abit BH6. I have to admit I went through withdrawals when my Athlon 650 would only do 700, even with the Gold Rush GFD I designed, myself (see my sig). Now my poor little 1 GHz T-Bird (100/200 bus) can't keep itself from going 1.33 GHz, and all I did was set the FSB for 133 MHz.

Guess I'm hopelessly stuck in this rut.

 

[pillage2001]

<< Ok here goes....

My friend just bought a new Epox 8KHA+ at a computer show this past weekend. I went over to help out with putting it in and stuff since I have the same board. Now I have mine running at 150fsb rock stable (prime95 for 48hrs). So we get it going and it's running great at default settings. We have XP installed and everything. I tell him to break it in a liitle bit at default and then start overclocking a liitle at a time until he finds the sweet spot.

So after I leave he must start reading stuff on the net about people clocking there 8KHA+ boards up to 166fsb and above. So he assumes that he should be able to get to 165fsb easy. I guess he tried and tried but the highest he could get was 159fsb stable. He then has the nerve to call me up and start yelling that I told him to buy a POS board that can only get up to 159fsb stable!! So he's going to RMA the board. For what I have no clue. I guess just to raise prices for everyone else.

I swear some overclockers are never happy. >>



Yell back at him saying that he's lucky to hit 159Mhz and other's not doing as good. The manufacturer does not guarantee any overclocking! shoot him too.

 

[2336]

Yeah, what pillage2001 said! And shoot him again!

 

[Buzzman151]

hahhahhaha..... you're friend is retarded!!!!

 

[Logix]

Shoot, man, my mobo only goes up to 153fsb.

Some people... :frown:

 

[Daniel]

There is a difference between being annoying and being a tool, your friend is a tool.

 

[yoda291]

at that point, shake his hand and wish him luck with the RMA

 

[thomsbrain]

<< There is a difference between being annoying and being a tool, your friend is a tool. >>

 

[Mister T]

what ram is he using?

 

[crypticlogin]

Your friend isn't an overclocker.. he's a lemming. "Oh cool, I can overclock like these other people!" He obviously skipped the part about accepting consequences when pushing hardware beyond spec and expects everyone to cover his sorry ass when he screws up or when things don't meet expectations. And yeah, what a tool.

Oops, did I just post that out loud?

 

[nullshark]

Before you shoot him, email him the link to this thread so he can maybe get a glimpse of what an ungrateful idiot he is.