overclocking toturial.

[THANAMELESS]

does anyone has some experience with overclocking, i want to try it, but because i don't wan't to mess up my computer, i thought maybe you guys could help me... any help appricieated.... for people who don't know what overclocking is, it is letting your video card run as a higher one, but it can end up in making your pc explode xD

[FatTrucker]

Wouldn't attempt it unless you have specifically upgraded your cooling and power supply. You might get a very minor overclock running stably but anything that will make a significant difference to performance will kill your hardware fairly quickly unless you've got the hardware to power it and cool it properly.

[THANAMELESS]

Wouldn't attempt it unless you have specifically upgraded your cooling and power supply. You might get a very minor overclock running stably but anything that will make a significant difference to performance will kill your hardware fairly quickly unless you've got the hardware to power it and cool it properly.

fair enough, however i would like information, about how to do it, because i will proberly need it in near future (then with the ability to cool it properly)

[onewecallgod]

It mainly depends on what you're trying to overclock. What's your hardware?

[THANAMELESS]

It mainly depends on what you're trying to overclock. What's your hardware?

to be honest im not sure, you see it's not on my pc... but i've only heard about it and don't know how to do it, soon when i will be with a friend of mine we will overclock his pc to play cod4 and stuff on very high graphics...

[onewecallgod]

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...ysprune=&f=284
That's a good place to start looking. I'm also a member there under the same name.

Keep in mind, if the games you want to play are currently unplayable, overclocking isn't going to make it playable. The performance gains most likely won't get you into a higher bracket of graphics settings, either.

[THANAMELESS]

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...ysprune=&f=284
That's a good place to start looking. I'm also a member there under the same name.

Keep in mind, if the games you want to play are currently unplayable, overclocking isn't going to make it playable. The performance gains most likely won't get you into a higher bracket of graphics settings, either.

mmmm.... ok then... it still is handy to know i thinks. at leas thanks for the information.

[Zach]

If you don't know what hardware you are working with specifically, and you don't know what to do you're going to end up breaking something, or worse. So be sure and read up as much as you can.

I could type a two page post about Overclocking, building a water cooling systemto do it, or going with a peltier or phase change etc. But tbh until you get the basics down and experiment with some old junk if you have it laying around, it'll probably confuse the hell out of you..

I don't think its worth it too much these days with some of the more modern CPU. As technology advances raw clockspeed will continue to become less and less important. RAW Mhz (or Ghz if you will) is like Horsepower, your CPU's architecture is the drive train efficiently turning that power into torque to get it going fast off the line. You can have all the horsepower in the world, but if you can't properly apply the torque it generates, its useless.

Back in the old days if you had a Pentium II/III or AMD K6 or whatever, even a 486DX, if you got 50mhz it was the bomb and it was noticeable.. Today it would take a couple hundred Mhz and you still would have a hard time spotting the difference outside of benchmarks.

I OC'ed my Core 2 Duo for a while, with the stock cooler and crappy TIM, no special paste or anything. Didn't notice much for my couple hundred Mhz and it ran a little too hot for my liking. So I just sit happily at 2.1Ghz.. If I wasn't poor though I'd probably be at 3Ghz or more with some good Water Cooling.

Just make sure you know what you're getting into. It can turn into and obsession/addiction, and its not worth it at that point for another 10pts on 3DMark or 1FPS in Call of Duty, etc.

By the way you still need to do something about your signature. If you put both images on the same line, it will meet the Forum Rules requirements. Or you could just dump the bottom one. There's no sense having the same image for your avatar and sig.

[Hrothgar]

It can turn into and obsession/addiction, and its not worth it at that point for another 10pts on 3DMark or 1FPS in Call of Duty, etc.

I know what you mean by this. I never personally got into overclocking because I'm simply not technical enough in any sense. Anyways, I did have a couple of friends in high school who constantly talked about OCing and good ways to cool their system. I honestly wonder if they really cared about enhanced performance, or if it was a form of geeky thrill for them. If they just enjoyed the gambling and the feeling of success afterward.

[the_EMU_kid]

well if its an ati card the opverclocking its very easy with ATITool with its find max core/memory then scan artifacts for about 15 minutes to be sure it doesnt overheat wll if its nvidia i dont have much experience because on my new rig i am pleased with my fps(frames per second not first person shooter :P)