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Warborg:


--- Quote from: Necro on February 02, 2006, 03:28:38 pm ---Bit of a tweak (save 50-200$ depending on the processor) and it only takes 2-3 bios settings?  Yeah...def worth it.  Esp. with the lower heat some procs are putting off....there's no real reason NOT to.

That is...IF you know what your doing. :)


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True, you can squeeze a bit more...  But then again, you can of course run into weird behavior, lockups, etc.  And when pushing up the bus speed can also cause some timing issues with other components.  And for any significant OC you are probably going to have to get extra cooling, which will pretty much make up the difference to the next highest CPU anyway.  So if can be done, and you may actually get some benefit out of it, but for the most part it's best just left to the die-hards...  Lets face it, a lot of people OC their stuff just to say that they could do it...

Warborg:


--- Quote from: Warborg on February 02, 2006, 03:48:49 pm ---
--- Quote from: Necro on February 02, 2006, 03:28:38 pm ---Bit of a tweak (save 50-200$ depending on the processor) and it only takes 2-3 bios settings?  Yeah...def worth it.  Esp. with the lower heat some procs are putting off....there's no real reason NOT to.

That is...IF you know what your doing. :)


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True, you can squeeze a bit more...  But then again, you can of course run into weird behavior, lockups, etc.  And when pushing up the bus speed can also cause some timing issues with other components, and risk just general stability.  And for any significant OC you are probably going to have to get extra cooling, which will pretty much make up the difference to the next highest CPU anyway.  So if can be done, and you may actually get some benefit out of it, but for the most part it's best just left to the die-hards...  Lets face it, a lot of people OC their stuff just to say that they could do it...

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pointdablame:


--- Quote from: More Cowbell on February 02, 2006, 03:00:04 pm ---
--- Quote from: pointdablame on February 02, 2006, 12:28:25 pm ---This may come off as a bit mean

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Oh yeah!? Well, you're fat!  ;D

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Screw you hippie!!  I'm not fat, I'm big boned!!!

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;)

More Cowbell:

Worked beautifuuly. I found the jumpers and swithed from 2-3 to 1-2 for a few seconds. It booted up perfectly and I vowed never again to touch the overclock, unless....  ;D

I was thinking about some points made earlier as to the value of overclocking. True that the value of OC from 3.2 to 3.5 doesn't amount to much (9% increase in speed) but when you OC from 1.1 to 1.3 the increase is a bigger difference overall (18% increase in speed). So the value to OCing is definitely there for the slower machines like mine. Maybe I will look into this further now that I know how to fix my screwups. Carefully! Thanks for the help!

GGKoul:


--- Quote from: More Cowbell on February 03, 2006, 10:32:21 am ---Worked beautifuuly. I found the jumpers and swithed from 2-3 to 1-2 for a few seconds. It booted up perfectly and I vowed never again to touch the overclock, unless....  ;D

I was thinking about some points made earlier as to the value of overclocking. True that the value of OC from 3.2 to 3.5 doesn't amount to much (9% increase in speed) but when you OC from 1.1 to 1.3 the increase is a bigger difference overall (18% increase in speed). So the value to OCing is definitely there for the slower machines like mine. Maybe I will look into this further now that I know how to fix my screwups. Carefully! Thanks for the help!

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Glad I could help

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