what is the best ever processor to overclock, your views

[iluvgillgill]

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well it all depends what you are already getting.if you already having 60fps which is as smooth as it gets to a human eyes then anything higher is bragging rights.

sorry i had to disagree with you.

 

[coleman]

no1sfanboy i agree, i did mean that the extreme overclocks are for bragging rights, as in 4.5ghz. anything that is not stable and is damaging on the hard ware is not worth it.

I will only overclock my e8200 2.4 to around 2.8 as this is all i need, thans for your opinion

 

[coleman]

i hadn't seen ur post gill gill be 4 i posted, i think that you summed it up in a sentence. Once you go beyond your needs it could be classed as bragging rights

 

[iluvgillgill]

^ well that is super conservative!!!!2.4>2.8?lol

 

[coleman]

lol that will be fine for me, no doubt i will probably got to a bout 3.2 though

 

[iluvgillgill]

Uk prices sucks but Ebuyer prices is decent but doesnot stock all the parts that i want.

 

[iluvgillgill]

do you get EMA?LOL that will help you out to new rig!😛

 

[coleman]

yeh i do lol . . . . 30 pounds a week, im getting a hd 4870 first

ill probably get a quad at Christmas or something and overclock that to get some real speed.

Do u live in the uk?

 

[No1sFanboy]

well it all depends what you are already getting.if you already having 60fps which is as smooth as it gets to a human eyes then anything higher is bragging rights.
sorry i had to disagree with you.

That is why I picked a couple of examples besides the obvious Crysis or Stalker where any increase is needed. This is why you see most reviewers of top end graphics setups doing their tests on overclocked CPU's.
Simply put this past year graphics have outpaced processors to the point that overclocking yields real gains beyond bragging points.

Here are a couple of good CPU scaling articles at legion hardware on both Nvidia and ATI hardware.

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=770

Those with lower-end Core 2 Duo/Quad processors can squeeze a great deal of performance out of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 simply by overclocking their processor past 3.0GHz, which is well within the limits of these processors.

http://www.legionhardware.com/document.php?id=775

Although we did only clock our Core 2 processors up to 3.60GHz, we still saw strong gains when going from 3.0GHz to 3.60GHz, for example.

 

[coleman]

exactly my point, if you need to overclock in order to get the most out of your gps or software, then do it, but if you are just browsing the internet and you overclock your q6600 to 3.5ghz them that could be classed as bragging rights because you don't actual need that speed.

Any increase in speed is going to be beneficial, its weather or not you actual need it.

 

[iluvgillgill]

Do u live in the uk?

yeah i live in UK.and college life just like you.but no EMA for me because im over 18 obviously.and those stupid expensive public transport!sigh.....

 

[iluvgillgill]

yep obslutely!OC only when you needed it. no good telling friends that " I browse on the internet everyday on my 3.6Ghz QUAD CORE super pc!"

i would just walk off if he is my friend!LOL

 

[coleman]

i don't quite understand your last post . . . . lol

 

[Shadow703793]

My favorite OC:

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=261994

2.26 to 3.6Ghz! A 1.34 Ghz OC. Stable on Prime95 for 6hrs. ~60C on load, with a moded Thermaltake Spark 7+ (THE loudest HSF ever!). Not to mention the OCing was done on a cr@ppy board, P4P800-MX (doesn't let you adjust voltage,etc). CPU is pin moded. It only has 477 pins now 😛. Btw, this was my First PC I built and OC

 

[dagger]

There's g0 q6600 from 2.4ghz to 4ghz fully stable on air. That's a 1.6ghz, or 66.6% increase. Most people stop at 3.6ghz though, for 50% increase.

People still think of the legendary Celeron of old for relative oc. But q6600 have unseated it in reality. And practical benefits are far greater because it's a higher end quad, with greater performance scaling.

 

[iluvgillgill]

but i think we are talking about % of OC not just its actual power. before in the future 4Ghz Q6600 could possibly be achieve with 3Ghz let say? and 1.6Ghz for day to day run is too dangerous anyway!

I wish i still had the Celeron D 356 OC CPU-Z!!!><

 

[coleman]

q6600 to 4ghz, thats a god chip . . . .lol

looks like the celeron d 315 was a good overlocker.

any more personal views?

 

[dagger]

but i think we are talking about % of OC not just its actual power. before in the future 4Ghz Q6600 could possibly be achieve with 3Ghz let say? and 1.6Ghz for day to day run is too dangerous anyway!

I wish i still had the Celeron D 356 OC CPU-Z!!!><

2.26-3.6 is a 59% increase, slightly lower. 😛

 

[Shadow703793]

^True. But it's the methods used to OC that counts too! 😛

 

[SiliconX]

The old AthlonXP Thoroughbreds. Especially the DLT3Cs (or was it the DUT3Cs?). Especially if you got a certain stepping (which I did, from Excalibur).

Those things were crazy. 1467MHz stock, I had mine to 2.5GHz 100% stable with a very small and basic WC setup. Damn things ran hot though, OCing on air wasn't really possible unless it was very mild.

 

[Shadow703793]

Any one remember the T-birds?

 

[coleman]

no, what r they?

 

[Shadow703793]

^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon

The Thunderbird was AMD's most successful product since the Am386DX-40 ten years earlier. Mainboard designs had improved considerably by this time, and the initial trickle of Athlon mainboard makers had swollen to include every major manufacturer.

They were very good at OCing I have heard.

 

[SiliconX]

^
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athlon

The Thunderbird was AMD's most successful product since the Am386DX-40 ten years earlier. Mainboard designs had improved considerably by this time, and the initial trickle of Athlon mainboard makers had swollen to include every major manufacturer.

They were very good at OCing I have heard.

They were. That was a time when Intel was playing big catch up with AMD.

 

[coleman]

Intel playing catch up to AMD . . . lol how times have changed, although i did read this, and it looks like AMD, could relay start competing

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/254157-10-watch-intel-amdhabi

thanks for the replies