Sefi
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For me, one of my favourite things about the humble PC is overclocking (for those who don't know, it's making a piece of hardware run faster than it actually should).
Some people will say it's bad, and in some cases it is, but if you have the right hardware, and a little bit of know-how, you can easily get anywhere from a 10-50% increase in performance out of a component.
So, If you OC, what have you managed do to?
Heres what I've done with my PC:
OC'd my 3.00GHz P4(HT) to 3.45GHz (FSB from 200 up to 230 with 15X multiplyer) although I've managed to run it at about 3.5, but it tends to crash there.
My A6600TD core went up from 300 to 450Mhz and the RAM from 500 to 615 (stable)
The ram is ddr333, although thanks to some ram ratio tweaks its running above 400.
It's all stock cooling, the only extra being a case fan at the back.
Aparently a mate of mine has his 2.7GHz p4 running at 3.7 using dry ice as collant, but I've never seen it.
Some people will say it's bad, and in some cases it is, but if you have the right hardware, and a little bit of know-how, you can easily get anywhere from a 10-50% increase in performance out of a component.
So, If you OC, what have you managed do to?
Heres what I've done with my PC:
OC'd my 3.00GHz P4(HT) to 3.45GHz (FSB from 200 up to 230 with 15X multiplyer) although I've managed to run it at about 3.5, but it tends to crash there.
My A6600TD core went up from 300 to 450Mhz and the RAM from 500 to 615 (stable)
The ram is ddr333, although thanks to some ram ratio tweaks its running above 400.
It's all stock cooling, the only extra being a case fan at the back.
Aparently a mate of mine has his 2.7GHz p4 running at 3.7 using dry ice as collant, but I've never seen it.
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