The Joys of Computer Tinkering...

[Bluescreendeath]

Why not both?

I'm sorry Miss AMD, but you can't have your cake and eat it too...

 

[warmon6]

I'm sorry Miss AMD, but you can't have your cake and eat it too...

:lol:


Can i have that cake?

 

[Shadow703793]

The CPU not being the limiting factor does get frustrating

+100. Right now my X5-UD3R is limiting my i7 920. I got a P6T Deluxe v2, but haven't gotten around to doing a swap lol

 

[raybob95]

More fun to screw with higher end stuff to see what you can achieve . . . until you fry something and lose 5x the money.

@Shadow703793

I've got the Gigabyte X58-UD3R and I'm OCing fine with my i7. Stable under 70C at 3.5GHz (167M BClock) and 1.275V.

 

[Shadow703793]

Overclocking is a bore nowadays. I miss the Golden Bridges of the K7 Athlons.

+1000. I miss the old BSEL mods,etc

For those that don't know, the Golden Bridges mod was used to unlock the multiplier of the Athalon Classic.

 

[warmon6]

+1000. I miss the old BSEL mods,etc

For those that don't know, the Golden Bridges mod was used to unlock the multiplier of the Athalon Classic.

Whats next? +10,000 and +100,000 to the next post(s). :lol: jk.

 

[MU_Engineer]

Although I love my main i7 gaming system, I occasionally find myself tinkering with my "lower-end" home computer.

After building a high end system, I realized that I have little incentive to overclock or upgrade because
I can already do everything I want maxed out.

Whereas my lower end system only has a dual core and lower end GPU, thus it isn't as fast as I would like it to be - so I find myself constantly overclocking it and finding configurations to increase its performance.

Do you enjoy tinkering with/overclocking high end or lower end systems?

I enjoy messing with just about any type of system. I will say that I do more messing with older systems since they actually may need some upgrades/tweaking- new ones shouldn't for a while if you built them well. Plus you can get some very interesting older high-end parts for a pittance, whereas new interesting high-end parts are very expensive and well out of my reach.

 

[kiren]

I usually don't overclock much unless its either a secondary computer, or something I'm on the verge of upgrading anyway. This is partially because when new it can usually do everything I bought it for, and partially because I can't easily afford to replace it
Once its in a secondary system its fair game though.... some notable ones:
Opteron 148 2.2@2.75GHz
Pentium II 350@466 (133fsb)
And a Pentium 133 that managed to boot into windows on a 100FSB (200MHz) wasn't super stable though....

 

[Bluescreendeath]

Wow, I'm surprised the vote is so close now: 19 to 21...

:lol:
Can i have that cake?

Nope. Haven't you heard? The cake is a lie...

 

[warmon6]

OH NOOOO.........

My life is in magnificent shambles [:tapko]

 

[theholylancer]

ops wrong selection...

anyways, i do have a i7, and as said before, the thign is so fast that any amount of ocing feels like nothing... recently i was running at 4 ghz, but then i went to stock voltage and got it to 3.4, and it did not feel any slower (about ~8-10 TFLOP drop in linux if i remembered correctly), and the fans on my TRUE isnt running anywhere as fast.... Then about the Ocing the 5870... that didn't really chance anything as crysis warhead was playable on enthusiast at 1920*1200 before the oc, and with a slight 875/1200 oc it was like meh....

on the other hand, with my old 7900GS, every mhz seemed like a improvement, even back when i used 1280*1024, and every mhz out of the a64 3200 seems to speed windows up by a lot. that could be just perception, or remembering the good parts of the old rig, but hey it just feels that way...

now the old thing is running undervolt at stock speed with a SI-120 and no cpu fan on it and being used by my parents (i guess the 7900 has to be bored rofl), guess it was a good run lol, a fitting retirement for these old parts

 

[Bluescreendeath]

http://members.arstechnica.com/x/asgard/the%20cake%20is%20a%20lie.jpg
OH NOOOO.........
My life is in magnificent shambles [:tapko]

drool...

ops wrong selection...

anyways, i do have a i7, and as said before, the thign is so fast that any amount of ocing feels like nothing... recently i was running at 4 ghz, but then i went to stock voltage and got it to 3.4, and it did not feel any slower ...

Ah, the 4GHz milestone... I have yet to achieve that on my dual and quad cores...

 

[amdfangirl]

I wanna achieve 4ghz on my e4300. I've tried. Belive me.

 

[sportsfanboy]

Well I just acquired a 285gtx but that wasn't fast enough so I decided to overclock it, lol

 

[theholylancer]

what res / game r u running that 285?? i know they may be "old" now but they are still really good.

 

[sportsfanboy]

1680x1050, I know I really need full hi def to push the card. I use some Cuda enabled apps to trans code video, so the overclocking makes a sizable difference.

 

[theholylancer]

oooo yeah i guess the whole cuda and gpgpu ppl would need as much as they got, well maybe fermi will be that good lol

but for me, a gamer, i don't care that much rofl

 

[Bluescreendeath]

I wanna achieve 4ghz on my e4300. I've tried. Belive me.

Looks like it might not be possible without watercooling... =/

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/core2duo_e4300/14.html

 

[Bluescreendeath]

hmm... that is a good question.

So it's possible to unlock a single core (sempron?) into a dual core.
And a Phenom dual core into a quad core.
And an Athlon triple core and Phenom triple core into a quad core.


Are there any Athlon dual cores into quad cores?

 

[kiren]

There is one model of sempron that can be unlocked that I know of. From what I've read the Athlon II x2 only has two cores physically on the die, so there isn't anything to unlock. I've heard rumors of unlocking the x3's though.

 

[Bluescreendeath]

There is one model of sempron that can be unlocked that I know of. From what I've read the Athlon II x2 only has two cores physically on the die, so there isn't anything to unlock. I've heard rumors of unlocking the x3's though.

Unlocking X3s into quads seem fairly more common.

 

[amdfangirl]

Looks like it might not be possible without watercooling... =/

http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Hardware/Reviews/core2duo_e4300/14.html

I doubt it given I use a G31 mobo with junky RAM.