Post your 2.8C overclocks!

[XeoBllaze]

Let me know how old your chip is, what cooling your using, your max FSB and what mobo/ram combo you have... Thanks! I should be expecting my 2.8C within the next couple days and wanted to get an idea in what I should expect.

 

[fredtam]

3.47Ghz (248FSB) on an Abit IC7-g/1 Gb HyperX3200 at a 5:4 ratio and stock cooling.

 

[XeoBllaze]

Originally posted by: fredtam
3.47Ghz (248FSB) on an Abit IC7-g/1 Gb HyperX3200 at a 5:4 ratio and stock cooling.

Do you OC 24/7, or just in benchmarks?

 

[fredtam]

I left it at 3.47(stable) for about a month and now I Have it at 3.2 now which is still overkill. After the initial 'lets see what it will do" OCing kinda lost its excitement. The difference between 3.47 and 2.8 is not noticable in the apps I use including gaming. It is nice to know that I can do it If an application needs that much speed. Thats why I didn't opt for a different heatsink fan. The speed is only good for impressive benchmarks.

 

[RedDog75]

Comment and question about that last post ^^ :

What kind of programs to you use that you don't see much difference?

I'm really trying to prep my system for oc-ing and wonder if it is even worth it!

I have some games that I play, but not any of the big shooter games - more like RPGs with video, etc.

 

[Nebor]

Nope, it's not worth it... I have a P4C 3.0ghz that will overclock up to 3.5ghz.... But it's pointless. It doesn't make a bit of difference for my most demanding games... First person shooter ones. Most games revolve around the video card nowadays. There's no noticable difference between 3.0 and 3.5ghz.... It doesn't feel 15% faster. It just makes more heat.

 

[kly1222]

It does make a difference if you're doing something cpu intensive, such as re-encoding dvd's or divx.

Try the CPU database at www.overclockers.com to see how high others have gotten their 2.8c's up to

 

[fredtam]

Originally posted by: kly1222
It does make a difference if you're doing something cpu intensive, such as re-encoding dvd's or divx.

Try the CPU database at www.overclockers.com to see how high others have gotten their 2.8c's up to

Umm No. When your talking about shaving less than a minute off even large file conversions that is not much of a difference.

I'm really trying to prep my system for oc-ing and wonder if it is even worth it!

I play all types of games, use photoshop, priemere and other resource intensive programs and there is no noticable difference between 3.4 and 2.8. It does have a certain amount of satisfaction knowing that you got a3.2 or 3.4 for the price of a 2.8. I think thats why I leave mine at 3.2.

Go here and compare.

 

[Overkiller]

If your doing distributed computing clients that run 100% cpu 24/7 then yes a 3.4 ghz vs a 3.0 will make a big impact. also there was a good example of someone here earlier who posted that they encode on 3- overclocked P4 systems for his/her job 24/7 almost and hours are saved weekly.....those HRS. add up to more productivity ...which = more $$$ for that particular person...

so yes, if its cpu intensive all the time..the diff. will be noticable. no reason to push the proc. too far for no reason otherwise...and i believe a proc. should never be pushed to its max point for any reason. that's just being too risky

 

[croak]

I remeber when I use to encode mp3s on my P90, I would leave the house for the day and the CD would be done when I came back. Then I overclocked it to 100 MHz and it was faster, but I'd still have to let it go for the day.

 

[Sunny129]

Originally posted by: fredtam

Originally posted by: kly1222
It does make a difference if you're doing something cpu intensive, such as re-encoding dvd's or divx.

Try the CPU database at www.overclockers.com to see how high others have gotten their 2.8c's up to

Umm No. When your talking about shaving less than a minute off even large file conversions that is not much of a difference.

umm, yes. while some people may not care about shaving a minute off file conversions, some people do alot of that stuff on their systems, and when your doing mass amounts of divx, mp3. or whatever kind of file encoding, the difference can be much greater than just 1 minute. so if the person interested on OCing is only going to encode one DVD occasionally, then no its not worth OCing. but if he or she does it all the time, then it is worth it.

Originally posted by: Overkiller
If your doing distributed computing clients that run 100% cpu 24/7 then yes a 3.4 ghz vs a 3.0 will make a big impact.

i crunch SETI blocks for team AnandTech, and believe me running my P4 1.6A @ 2.2GHz makes over an hour difference in the time it takes to process a work unit.

GAMES - it depends on how CPu intensive the game is. i happen to play a few games that are very CPU intensive. if you recall, the first unreal tournament was one of the most CPU intensive games ever, and OCing my system helped fps significantly. i know UT2003 is out now, and i'm way behind the times, but it depends on the games you play, not what's currently on the shelf and stores. microsoft flight simulator is also CPU intensive, and i play that wuite a bit.

so as you can see, for me, OCing helps significantly. but if you aren't like me, don't play CPU intensive games, don't do distributed computing, or encode lots of files, then you won't see much of a performance boost from OCing.