overclocking toturial.

[Zach]

Kind of depends on the person..

My efforts were always aimed at

A. A really quiet computer.
B. Any performance I can get after that.

Water cooling will spoil even the most deaf person when it comes to quiet PC's. There were times even after I had been doing it for years, I would double check to make sure the PC was actually turned on, or the pump was running, etc.

Some people do it for bragging rights, and others do it just to see how far they can push the technology.

[the_EMU_kid]

Kind of depends on the person..

My efforts were always aimed at

A. A really quiet computer.
B. Any performance I can get after that.

Water cooling will spoil even the most deaf person when it comes to quiet PC's. There were times even after I had been doing it for years, I would double check to make sure the PC was actually turned on, or the pump was running, etc.

Some people do it for bragging rights, and others do it just to see how far they can push the technology.

but do you Know how to emulate pcsx2 with 1 single core

overcloking and Pentium4 cpu to 6.2 ghz with an cooler with ice i know its crazy but i saw it on youtube

[THANAMELESS]

but do you Know how to emulate pcsx2 with 1 single core

overcloking and Pentium4 cpu to 6.2 ghz with an cooler with ice i know its crazy but i saw it on youtube

ha you still believe what you see on youtube

wake up meb

[onewecallgod]

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

Anyone who uses ATItool like that doesn't know what they're talking about. The artifact scanner doesn't work and find max clocks overshoots by a lot. Looping the latest 3D Mark for eight hours is the best idea, then at the end of the run, look closely for artifacts.

[the_EMU_kid]

Anyone who uses ATItool like that doesn't know what they're talking about. The artifact scanner doesn't work and find max clocks overshoots by a lot. Looping the latest 3D Mark for eight hours is the best idea, then at the end of the run, look closely for artifacts.

come on dont make me look bad i use this on my old ati9250 so i get from 239.82 core 165.97memory to 268.31core 198.28memory,i know its not very much but from an unplayble 16-18 fps i can have a ''playble'' 20-25 so i can still on MY pc without bothering my big bro

[Zach]

I never really had much success with noticeable performance from overclocking video cards, and frankly with the re-emergence of SLI as a viable technology on modern cards, as well as the new multi-core card that are coming out, I find it pretty much pointless, again, unless you are obsessed with your e-dick and benchmark scores.

[the_EMU_kid]

I never really had much success with noticeable performance from overclocking video cards, I find it pretty much pointless, again, unless you are obsessed with your e-dick and benchmark scores.

why pointless,if you can squeeze your old rig some horsepower and still can play some games without paying some extra cash and get some free FPS
p.s. whats a e-dick

[Zach]

If you don't know, then you're too young to have it explained to you...

As for why it's pointless.. a handful of FPS is NOT gonna improve anything. Even if you got 10 or 15 FPS out of it, if it was only in the high end, then it won't do much either. What you need is a smaller gap between your high and low FPS. You need it to be more -stable-. That is what creates fluidity of movement.

You could play a game smoothly at 30FPS if it was a constant smooth output that only deviated +/-5 frames. For the cost of the cooling equipment it would take to get a $200 or less video card to render 10FPS faster, you could have simply bought a higher end model that would be a hell of a lot faster, and more stable and efficient because its running cooler.

Like I said, it didn't used to be this way, but I have been seeing it for years that we are approaching a wall that we cannot currently breakthrough because of technology limits, the laws of physics, not just because of financial limits. It's called diminishing returns, it affect everything from hard drives to CPU's to GPU's on video card. Clock speed alone is only going to get you so much, and these days it doesn't translate well into real-world performance gains.

[FatTrucker]

Its also a thermal disaster. Overclocking does cause extra heat and stress on the components and will massively reduce the life of the hardware (without sticking on decent extra cooling) so you end up having to buy a new card anyway.

With GPU's you tend to find that its memory and number of pipelines that make the biggest difference to performance rather than the actual clock speed anyway. In most cases the only perceivable difference you'll see from a grpahics card overclock is when running benchmarks rather than anything noticable in-game so effectively you're destroying your card for the sake of seeing a slightly bigger number onscreen.

[onewecallgod]

Just to play devil's advocate, because that's what I do, there's only a few circumstances that overclocking is actually helpful:
-You can easily overclock to at least 20% faster than stock with either no bump, or a modest pump in voltage. If this isn't true, then don't bother for any of the remaining reasons.
-You run extremely calulation intensive programs often that output linearly increases with clockrate, such as: encoding, archiving, certain Photoshop effects and distributed computing projects like SETI, FAH, Prime...etc. Gaming is clearly not on the list unless you fall into the following category:
-The game you play is severly CPU intensive, or your current graphics card is bottlenecked by your CPU due to running multicards (SLI,CrossFire) or just generally being old.