Excellent article overall. A few moot points:
Now I know that the rabid OCers are gonna flame me worse than a Pentium D without an HSF Folding molecules in Hell. But that's what I think. OCing is a rather pointless "my dick is bigger than yours" exercise.
What did Johnny Storm say?
"FLAME ON!"
:lol:
Alot of things people do are rather pointless. Why do people sink thousands of dollars into cars to make them go faster when the average speed limit is 50mph? Its a hobby. I tell you one thing for certain tho, if i could spend $100 and get my car to go twice as fast, I'd do that in a hearbeat. However since that will never happen, I'll sink that $100 into my new E6400 and get an 80% perfomace boost. Sounds like a good deal to me =). Nothing like having a 200 dollar chip performing like a 1000 doallar chip. And i didnt even have to work overtime to do it.
+OCNewb+ -- Hung better than CaptRobertApril
As for the "hung", wanna compare un-photoshopped photos?
Excellent article overall. A few moot points:
"80 degrees Celsius is a temperature that nobody is able to touch for longer than 1/10 second. I have never come across a CPU at this temperature."
Dr. Tom, ever heard of Pentium D or Prescotts? Some of those #$%& chips idle at damn near 80C on stock HSF, and not much below that on killer coolers!
"Cooling is the Numero Uno Oncho in overclocking!"
I was able to only come up with one English language reference to Numero Uno Oncho and it referred to a Lithuanian basketball team. I have no idea what Uno Oncho means. I know Ocho Cinco is the Bengals' Chad Johnson, but that's about it.
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Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 3.7ghz (463x8)
.As I said, if I can double my performance, it'd be worth a shot. I was not aware that an E6400 could benchmark at 180% of stock in OC, and I'd like some other forum frequenters to confirm that. Now that would be more than worth it and would definitely defuse my argument
Are you serious about the idle temps on Prescotts? I think you are helping propagate an urban legend. Mine has never gone above 50C even at full load on stock HSF and OCed from 2.8 GHz to 3.57 GHz (that's a 27.5% gain) and dare to say it can go beyond 4.3 if it weren't for my cursed Cheapazaki MoBo. I mean no offense but... Are you putting enough thermal goo on your processor die? About the Numero Uno Oncho: It's supposed to be Spanish but Oncho is wrong, perhaps he meant Ocho so my translation is Number One Eight. By the way it's "enchiladas" not enchaladas.
As for the "hung", wanna compare un-photoshopped photos?
.As I said, if I can double my performance, it'd be worth a shot. I was not aware that an E6400 could benchmark at 180% of stock in OC, and I'd like some other forum frequenters to confirm that. Now that would be more than worth it and would definitely defuse my argument
But why shell out 300 extra bucks for that chip?
I have never had the privilege and honour of owning a fine Prescott. I was stuck with those horrible Athlon 64s that would chew up Prescotts and spit them out and still save ya $200 a pop. :lol: (Hard to believe that I'm turning into an Intel Fanboy now, huh?) However, I had this buddy who had a Prescott 3.2, boxstock no OC. Now this guy knew his stuff so the HSF (Big Typhoon) was properly seated, AC5'd, etc. etc. etc. He even had one of those thermal sensor gun thingies so that he could get the exact temps under the chip, and all that crap.
Well, he could never get it to idle under 52C, and when he'd run loops he once saw 101C. Don't tell me that there is thermal throttling and that's impossible. I know that's how it is supposed to work and it never ever ever throttled back. He even screwed around with the two different types of throttling. No dice. He was checkin' around with other guys who had similar chips (this was before Pentium Ds) and about half of them were reporting really high temps (although I have to admit I never heard of anyone else breaking over 100C!!!)
Beats me how it did it! :?
But why shell out 300 extra bucks for that chip?
funnyvlad
PostPosted: Tue Dec 12, 2006 2:18 am Post subject: Re: Overclocking Guide Part 1: Risks, Choices and Benefits
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Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 @ 3.7ghz (463x8)
Impressive OC. I on the other hand doesn´t no **** about OC. I´m planning to buy a Core 2 Duo E6600 and overclock it to 2,67Ghz(as stock C2D E6700). May be modest but as I said, I know zilch about OC. Maybe maybe will I try to get to the next multiplier(2,93Ghz).
Hmm I still think that the propability that the cpu will be unstable is higher with a weaker cpu(maybe the difference is negligible but anyway). Still, I don´t need to OC the cpu to 3,4Ghz. 2,93 will be fine. Mobo is important so I want to know if Asus P5B(vanilla) is enough for overlocking to a modest 2,93Ghz?
Is Geil DDR2 PC6400 800MHz Ultra 4-4-4-12 good for OC?
Do you plan to do dual video cards? Im not sure on the memory, never used it. Thats not normally a good thing =).