Lets all overclock!

[darkness]

I managed to get my 1200Mhz Athlon Thunderbird to 1553 before I started having problems.

[SpeedSlayer]

Originally posted by Polygon
Well when you overclock the CPU you overclock the PCI and AGP bus as well. There is no way o cool them. Which is why I don't, because I only have a 6x multiplyer I could get maybe 50MHz before risking damage. But say a P3 with a 100MHz bus, they have an 8x miltiplyer so they can overclock much higher.

Hmm, I guess you don't know what the hell watercooling is. Watercooling has special blocks for the AGP/PCI cards. It uses a pump to pump water threw cooling blocks that are on the CPU, and other main components

[Chris]

Watercooling is also hella pricey.

How about liquid nitrogen? Some guys got their 2.2ghz P4 to 3.7ghz.

[AEstud]

my cpu is a 400 but its overclocked at 401...is that good enough? I didn't even have to do it myself, it came like that

[Polygon]

Originally posted by SpeedSlayer


Hmm, I guess you don't know what the hell watercooling is. Watercooling has special blocks for the AGP/PCI cards. It uses a pump to pump water threw cooling blocks that are on the CPU, and other main components

Really? I didn't know they made water cooling blocks for the PCI and AGP. Neat stuff!

And not too long ago I found another liquid cooling option for the entire mobo. I was watching The Screensavers and they bought some liquid from 3M that is totally non-conductive. I don't remember the name of it, but they submerged the mobo in it and ran the fluid through dry ice to cool it. Needless to say there is a point that is too cold for the CPU.

[darklight]

hrmm
thanks for all the info guys,
ive started wanting all this now and i got a window kit and a neon light,lol and ill prolly be getting a thermometer soon and then ill get some coolers and then start overclocking, thanks again! :smoka:

[Neutrino]

Originally posted by darklightvr4

ive started wanting all this now and i got a window kit and a neon light,lol and ill prolly be getting a thermometer soon and then ill get some coolers and then start overclocking, thanks again! :smoka:

So what you are saying is that you will rice up your computer. Don't forget to put up some sitckers with NOS-RAID or Vtec-ATA

[darklight]

yeah preety much

[darklight]

is there any special heaksink? I would like to see what this celeron can do, im going to get a bigger case and quite a few fans, but heaksink is a big ordeal so i was just wondering if anyone has any suggestions thanks

[Chris]

Bigger is better. Copper is better than aluminum. Fins are good. Thermal paste is also good (like Arctic Silver). If you look at some sites that are focused on cooling, you should get an idea.
Try the ViaArena forums for help also, there are lots of links and help here

[pelli]

hmmmm... overclocking sounds fun. maybe i should try as well...but after i change my video card since it'z GeForce so....i'll w8 till i get a new video card.

[jon@af]

I Really wish that people would read the dates of threads.

[TheNotoriousMogg]

anything that can potentially melt my cpu to my motherboard is not a risk worth takin imo

[Webmaster_Zeus]

Overclocking will be gravy if it goes well, keeping all the components cool is necessary, but when you overclock you run all the components above design specification (although rebadging does happend, its normally not something we assume is done).

When running above the design specification your creating a higher error rate, although the faster clock may lead to quick repair of the error produce, but over a prolong period or a freak accident can actually cause data failure, which can spread across to ram and hard drives.

That's why critical pcs or servers aren't overclock simply for this reasons, basically overclocking is great but should only be done with caution and through lots of education of the goods and bad.

[Psman32@af]

Im thinking of overclocking my athalon XP, even though it is a 2700, lol. Dont ask me why, i dont really know, by benchmarkign standards, its already extremely high. its running nice and cool right now with the stock amd heatsink and fan, around 40 degrees C, or about 100-105 degrees F. Thats just something im thinking of, dont know if i will.