Overclocking new hardware: Do you start low --> up, or start high and work from there

[apoppin]

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I have an overclocking curse. I couldn't overclock something by 2MHz if my life depended on it. When I try, it ends up hosing Windows or never turning on again. Apparently the curse spreads to people who read my posts too. It's weird.

don't worry it won't be a problem here

... no one will read your posts

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: apoppin

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
I have an overclocking curse. I couldn't overclock something by 2MHz if my life depended on it. When I try, it ends up hosing Windows or never turning on again. Apparently the curse spreads to people who read my posts too. It's weird.

don't worry it won't be a problem here

... no one will read your posts

That's probably a safe bet.

I really do have an overclocking curse though. I don't know what it is.

 

[apoppin]

i do - it's those damn intel MB's with OC'ing locked out



try a gigabyte or asus ... we'll get your little C2D humming along at least 10-50% faster

we can break any "oc'ing curse" here

... for a price, of course
:evil:

 

[zach0624]

With my 5600x2 I overclocked it to 3.0ghz right off the bat (pretty good overclock for a 5600) with a little bump in voltage (doesn't do much on my mobo) and turning off cool and quiet and got it to post without touching the ht multi and did stability testing and fiddled with the ram and ht multi to get it stable at 3.15 with 12+ hours of orthos which I consider stable.