david Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 How do I overclock my processor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandolas Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 what is your processor? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
username Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 if you have a gateway, dell, HP.... ect you CANT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gandolas Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 that's right, you must have a non OEM machine Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiwiNZ Posted July 11, 2002 Share Posted July 11, 2002 Legion , unless you are willing to fork out a stash of cash think twice even thrice before overclocking. You run a very good risk of cooking your machine . Do heaps of research before hand , especially regarding cooling and weigh up the performance gains (if any) you will get . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted July 11, 2002 Author Share Posted July 11, 2002 Originally posted by KiwiNZ Legion , unless you are willing to fork out a stash of cash think twice even thrice before overclocking. You run a very good risk of cooking your machine . Do heaps of research before hand , especially regarding cooling and weigh up the performance gains (if any) you will get . ok :s Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mAcOdIn Veteran Posted July 11, 2002 Veteran Share Posted July 11, 2002 ah, but you can over clock your video card Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keldyn Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Moved to OC'ing forum Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Originally posted by username if you have a gateway, dell, HP.... ect you CANT I was just wondering... how come? I have know idea how to do overclocking, and was just curious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shifty Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 to eliminate headaches of novice or beginners overclocking and messing up their OEM boxes, manufactures leave out overclocking or tweaking capabilities. nowadays, all manufactures have to do is design the motherboard to except processors of various speeds without having to go through the bios or jumpers to configure them. really its just a matter of ease to manufacture PCs and not have to deal with stupid customers that overclocked their boxes and damaging it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shockz Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Originally posted by Shifty to eliminate headaches of novice or beginners overclocking and messing up their OEM boxes, manufactures leave out overclocking or tweaking capabilities. nowadays, all manufactures have to do is design the motherboard to except processors of various speeds without having to go through the bios or jumpers to configure them. really its just a matter of ease to manufacture PCs and not have to deal with stupid customers that overclocked their boxes and damaging it. Ah i see. Thanks for the info :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Attyk Posted July 12, 2002 Share Posted July 12, 2002 Originally posted by KiwiNZ Legion , unless you are willing to fork out a stash of cash think twice even thrice before overclocking. You run a very good risk of cooking your machine . Do heaps of research before hand , especially regarding cooling and weigh up the performance gains (if any) you will get . Thats is a statement coming from someone who has never OC'ed. I have a Coppermine 700mhz running at 933mhz and it runs flawless, a stock fan is all I have for cooling. I encode so many movies or remux them that minimum 5 out of 7 days I leave my PC with something encoding. Since that takes all my CPU, my PC is stressed more then its idle. I have no errors, no reboots, my system runs flawless. You just have to know what to do. Worse case senario is your computer wont boot, you pull the battery out of your MB and reset the BIOS. Most MB now shutdown when detecting a higher then normal temperature. This isnt to say that you CANT melt your PC, but you should treat it as the black plague. Basically you bump up the FSB and voila. My MB actually OC'ed my chip as default, I didnt have to do a thing...weird huh ;) I have a PIII Coppermine 700mhz 100FSB. My MB has a FSB of 133 and so is my RAM (Which means everything in my PC is overclocked, including my AGP slot). You can actually go in increments as long as your RAM can handle it. Some go to 143 or higher. You have to be careful and OC to what the CPU can take. Dont expect to get a 900mhz out of a 350mhz chip. Here is a couple of sites that go into detail for anyone who is thinking about it. http://www.sysopt.com/ocdatabase.html http://www.theoverclockingstore.co.uk/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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