Overclocking

[Zaccix]

A quick message (in the style of Elmer Fudd) to anyone who's thinking of overclocking their PC:

"Be vevvy vevvy careful!"

My celly 400 is now going at 450mhz. Yeah, I tried to jack it up to 500, but Windows died on me so I had to re-install it and nearly lost the contents of my HD (don't ask how). In theory I could clock this PC to 600mhz but, as said in JFK, "theory says that an elephant can hang off a cliff with its tail tied to a daisy chain". In other words, no way.

One thing tho'. Both UT and Q3 run brilliantly now for some reason. I mean 50mhz isn't an earth-shattering increase, but everything's just, umm, smoooth now /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif


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Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon.

 

[Sky]

I have a P3 500. I ran it for a month OC'd at 600. It ran fine. Temp seemed ok. I just chickened out. I am going to upgrade after the first of the year. So I think I will go ahead and crank her up again.

 

[Voyd-]

what do u mean chickened out? when you overlock it either works, doesnt work, or it crashes every 15 minutes. if it was fine for a month, it would be fine for 5 years. your cpu wont just melt one day or anything. the lifespan of a cpu is maybe, 10 years and by overclocking you reduce it to 5 years. u gonna be using that p3-500 in 5 years? dont think so. heh

 

[Sky]

At the time a friend of mine said "Hey dude Overclocking is cool but every day you OC you shorten your CPU'S life.
' So I quit. So I guess it's ok huh?

[This message has been edited by Sky (edited 12-22-1999).]

 

[L_S]

What are you upgrading to Sky? I'm in the early planning stages of an upgrade myself.

If you have any problems with what I just said then I welcome you to click here.

 

[Zaccix]

I wanna get some RAM first, then maybe a nice ELSA Erazor X or Creative Annihilator DDR.

When my celly's on it's last legs, I'll try to get a new CPU. Sod knows what speed they'll be by then /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif

Tomorrow never knows what it doesn't know too soon.

 

[Jenkins]

My AMD K6-2 350 wouldn't overclock to 450 or 400, even though I tried. I could do it now, probably, but I misplaced my motherboard manual.

Jenkins

 

[Sky]

Hmmm. I am open for suggestions LS /~unreal/ubb/html/smile.gif
I have mixed feelings about the Intel 820 chipset. (Heard that 4X AGP and the Ramdac aren't all that Intel hoped) So I kinda feel like going the Athelon Route. The benches look good and Boards I hear are coming down in price. What do you think I should do. I have had Intel in the past. I had one AMDK 6 system one time and I wasn't to happy with it.