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Overclock crash - recoverable?
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--- Quote from: Lilwolf on February 02, 2006, 09:31:15 am ---But I hate to sound rude here, but by asking about the harddrive (which is fine btw) it probably means that you don't know enought about PC hardware to overclock safely. Its not really for beginners. (and then its not really for expert users either... because they usually have killed a processor or come close on their road to becoming an expert :)
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No offense taken. You are completely right, I don't know a ton about computers. I'm slapping myself for being so bold as to think that I could do it without something going wrong. Great advice from all. Thanks
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OK I believe I have my motherboard info. I thought it was a Syntax motherboard but the info I wrote down last night based on a system program I ran last night says the following about the motherboard.
VT8367-8235 Elitegroup (ECS) VIA KT266/A chipset
Does that ring a bell for anyone? I can go some googling but if anyone knows about it, much appreciated.
TMS:
Not to stray too far from the subject, buy I have never understood the need to overclock. What I mean is that people overclock because they think it is a cheap way to increase system speed, but when you really think about it it doesn't make that much sense. The difference between a 3GHz and a 3.2 is about $30. So you buy a 3Ghz and overclock to 3.2-3 whatever now you need a bigger heatsink another fan etc.... Then you turn up the voltage to make up for the overclocking and you need more cooling and end up with a box that sounds like a hair dryer cause you got 15 fans running. So instead of spending $30 extra dollars for a chip that has been tested safe for 3.2 you end up spending just as much on fans and other ---Cleveland steamer---
GGKoul:
You need to clear CMOS. Remove the battery and find the RESET jumper and place a contact between post 1 & 2 or 2 & 3 for 2-3 secs.
Try that and if the CPU isn't fried, then if should take you into the POST.
Warborg:
--- Quote from: TMS on February 02, 2006, 09:54:39 am ---Not to stray too far from the subject, buy I have never understood the need to overclock. What I mean is that people overclock because they think it is a cheap way to increase system speed, but when you really think about it it doesn't make that much sense. The difference between a 3GHz and a 3.2 is about $30. So you buy a 3Ghz and overclock to 3.2-3 whatever now you need a bigger heatsink another fan etc.... Then you turn up the voltage to make up for the overclocking and you need more cooling and end up with a box that sounds like a hair dryer cause you got 15 fans running. So instead of spending $30 extra dollars for a chip that has been tested safe for 3.2 you end up spending just as much on fans and other ---Cleveland steamer---
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Well, overclocking did have more of a place a while back, but I would agree that currently it's not nearly as practical. I've played with overclocking since the 486, and on certain CPUs it was well worth giving a shot. But yeah, with today's processors, overclocking to get an extra 100-200Mhz out of a 3Ghz processor is hardly worth the trouble.
Now when I did find overclocking useful is back in the day... When I had my Cyrix 486 s40 (40Mhz) OCed to 50Mhz, pretty good jump in speed at very little risk and no extra cooling. Then the original Pentium, where I took my 75Mhz and OCed it to 120Mhz (there was a HUGE price different between the 75Mhz and 120Mhz chips) and all I needed was a good CPU cooler, nothing exotic. Or the Celeron 300a, which would easily overclock to 450Mhz with stock cooling. But currently, you are right... CPUs are running much closer to tolerance, and you spend more on the extra cooling then you would on the next step up of CPU.