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Challenger Rated R

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Posted: Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:29:06 Post Subject: Overclocking? |
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Does anyone overclock any more? If so, they apparently don't talk about it!  |
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Little Bruin
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fortunzfavor Rated PG
Joined: 02 Dec 2010 Posts: 13
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knight0334 Rated XXX

Joined: 22 Aug 2003 Posts: 2234 Location: Neither Here, Nor There
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Doctor Feelgood Arrrrghh!

Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 20349 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 16:21:42 Post Subject: |
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- I do, but nothing extreme. My main desktop is a i7 920 OC'ed from 2.66GHZ to 3.0GHz... And I have a Sandybridge system I am messing with that seems ready to overclock... Memory runs 2133MHz, while the CPU does it's Turbo Boost thing up to 3.8GHz! |
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BeerCheeze *hick*

Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 9285 Location: At the Bar
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Posted: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:06:09 Post Subject: |
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Yea, it's not as big of a deal any more and it's a LOT easier than it was in the "old" days.
Most DYI CPU's and MB's will add 10% - 20% OC with out putting in any effort. Used to be you would brag if you could get those numbers. |
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fortunzfavor Rated PG
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Posted: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 17:30:45 Post Subject: |
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BeerCheeze wrote: | Yea, it's not as big of a deal any more and it's a LOT easier than it was in the "old" days.
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Indeed. I get an extra 300mhz on stock voltage, and I don't even have to enter the bios, I can do it through Overdrive. |
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Doctor Feelgood Arrrrghh!

Joined: 07 Apr 2003 Posts: 20349 Location: New Jersey
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Posted: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 22:58:06 Post Subject: |
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It is apparently way too easy these days...
This took about 4 minutes of "work"... A 3.3GHz chip running at about 4.1GHz with 8GB of DDR3 running at about 2133MHz.
Maybe tomorrow I'll mess with the base clock... Or maybe I should wait until I have something other than the stock cooler on there...  |
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Little Bruin
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vashant Rated PG
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Posted: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 23:41:30 Post Subject: |
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I have my q6600 quad core oc'd to 3.6ghz and that seems to work fine for me. I could push it farther as I have liquid cooling but I don't see the point in it as any changes above that I will only notice in benchmarks and not every day use.  |
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James86 Rated R

Joined: 11 Feb 2011 Posts: 66 Location: So Cal
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jedihobbit Rated XXX

Joined: 22 Mar 2007 Posts: 238 Location: Central Virginia, USA
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Posted: Wed, 16 Feb 2011 14:31:06 Post Subject: |
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Ahhhh............I'm playing with a MSI NF980-G65 and a 1055T. Guess I should start a thread to show what I've done and where I'm trying to go?
For S & Gs I did do this http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1616907
However "meaningfull & stable" has been kinda hit and miss!
Also look to be working with my 955BE and a MSI 890GXM-G65 fairly soon. Any 955 gurus floating around?  _________________ As of 02/01/11
DreamCatcher AM3 >> (Down Again) >> SG01 Evo, MSI 785GM-E65, PII X4 955(AQ H2O Cooled), XFX GTX285(EK H2O Cooled), Seagate 7200.10 ST380815AS 80GB, 2 x G.S. F3-12800CL7D-2GBPI, MODU82+ EMD525AWT, XP Home SP2
KestrelFlight >> (Under Construction) >> Zalman Z7+, MSI NF980-G65, PII X4 1055T, 2 x Galaxy 580GTXs, Zalman 32GB SSD, WD V'Raptor 300GB, 2 x WD 1 TB Blacks, G.S. F3-16000CL9D-4GBTD, Zalman ZM1000-HP Plus , Win7
Oz1a v2.0 >> XFX MDA72P7509 750a, PI X2 8870BE, 2 x XFX GTS250, WD 250GB, F2-8500CL5D-2GBPK, Tt TR2 600W, XP Pro SP3 |
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