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#1011371 by croivzeba (Power User) at 2008-10-04 20:56:49 (4 years ago) - [Report]

cap26 wrote:

i have a AMD Athlon 64 X2 dual-core processor4200+ with a MSI motherbord K9A2,and a Asus video Eax300,every time I want to play a game my computer is blocking I have to restart it every time,can everyone tell me what is the problem PLEASE!!!!

unstable overclock???

#1011685 by Sithius900 (User) at 2008-10-05 17:21:22 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Got a quick question for zeh pros: does O/Cing a graphics card with nTune or RivaTune decrease it's lifespan or make it go slow faster...?

Thanks in advance.

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#1012031 by croivzeba (Power User) at 2008-10-06 00:25:33 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Sithius900 wrote:

Got a quick question for zeh pros: does O/Cing a graphics card with nTune or RivaTune decrease it's lifespan or make it go slow faster...?

Thanks in advance.

If it is a good overclock or if you have good cooling it won't do anything bad....

What is your card?

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#1012152 by Sithius900 (User) at 2008-10-06 07:23:14 (4 years ago) - [Report]

9600gt

My mobo is some kinda MSI if that matters.

EDIT: Also I have a Radeon HD 2900 Pro on my other computer, how well does that clock?

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#1019467 by unknown[172158] at 2008-10-19 04:19:50 (4 years ago) - [Report]

k so I decided to see what i could do with my chip and I was pleased with the results, but the only way I could get it stable was to put some phat voltage through it, (1.481 vcore before drop/droops, 1.456v idle, 1.424v load), +.1v on nb and +.2v on the fsb voltage. this is my first overclock and basically i'd like to know if theres anything i can do to get a bit lower vcore. im pretty sure ive looked through everything and so far this is all i can do to get it prime stable. If there's nothing I can do then I'm still happy considering it's a Ł75 cpu

if it makes any difference my specs are in profile

#1023995 by unknown[305706] at 2008-10-25 16:34:57 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Jamjamm wrote:

http://xs132.xs.to/xs132/08426/4ghz545.jpg

k so I decided to see what i could do with my chip and I was pleased with the results, but the only way I could get it stable was to put some phat voltage through it, (1.481 vcore before drop/droops, 1.456v idle, 1.424v load), +.1v on nb and +.2v on the fsb voltage. this is my first overclock and basically i'd like to know if theres anything i can do to get a bit lower vcore. im pretty sure ive looked through everything and so far this is all i can do to get it prime stable. If there's nothing I can do then I'm still happy considering it's a Ł75 cpu

if it makes any difference my specs are in profile

motherboard????

#1025542 by unknown[172158] at 2008-10-27 02:27:39 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Well it's in my profile.. but it's a Gigabyte P35-DS3L

#1025546 by snakedad (Power User) at 2008-10-27 02:33:54 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Been looking around some forums that talk about overclocking.Most guides out there are over the top complicated and include sooo damn much worthless information that is not needed. Now days you can even overclock most of your hardware with sliders directly from your desktop. You don't even have to use BIOS.

The elitists still seem to clinge to the old ways, spreading lies about how unsafe and unstable it is to overclock using program software insted of BIOS. A load of bull if you ask me.

Perhaps I should write a how to overclock for dummies tutorial.

#1025621 by unknown[305706] at 2008-10-27 09:11:39 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Jamjamm wrote:

Well it's in my profile.. but it's a Gigabyte P35-DS3L

gut overcl.
my:CPU INTEL Core2Quad Q9550(2,83)>3,5hz(Cooler THERMALTAKE BigTyp VX)~1,35V
MBO ASUS RAMPAGE EXTREME, Intel X48 / ICH9R, DDR3, zvuk, S-ATA, 2xG-LAN, FW, PCI-E, s. 775

#1026232 by unknown[307697] at 2008-10-28 09:03:27 (4 years ago) - [Report]

lol kobila banned...

#1032553 by VizlaN Donor

(Power User) at 2008-11-07 00:35:40 (4 years ago) - [Report]

snakedad wrote:

It works for low-level overclocking, if you want the max out of it you still have to resort to BIOS. You also have a very high risk of corrupting data when overclocking in OS, as you have lots of data cached, being written/read etc. Thats why "the elitists still seem to clinch to the old ways, spreading lies"

#1053032 by Scherzzo Donor

(Power User) at 2008-12-05 23:44:56 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Howdy All,

I have a Q9550 processor and 790i eVGA mobo. 1600mhz ram. What overclock can i expect to get from this before i have to switch to watercooling? im new to overclocking. Please advise!

#1053649 by unknown[172158] at 2008-12-06 20:42:56 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Scherzzo wrote:

Howdy All,

I have a Q9550 processor and 790i eVGA mobo. 1600mhz ram. What overclock can i expect to get from this before i have to switch to watercooling? im new to overclocking. Please advise!

Welllll, hmmm. You don't really need watercooling if you have a decent air cooler (xigmatek/true/noctua/etc). To answer your question though, I guess around 75c before switching to watercooling, which would be around 1.4vcore, and i wouldnt really recommend going over that anyway for the sake of the longterm stability of your cpu. I'm not really clued up on how well the quads overclock but I'm assuming that particular one could do like 3.8ghz? Could be better or could be worse, you never really know

If you still have the stock cooler that you got with the cpu I wouldn't recommend changing the vcore at all.

#1053687 by Scherzzo Donor

(Power User) at 2008-12-06 21:52:30 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Thanks Jamjamm ....

#1059785 by hmhef Donor

(VIP) at 2008-12-15 20:30:12 (4 years ago) - [Report]

v= 1.3

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can go higher but limited by the 667 ram, and dont want to oc them anymore

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#1061018 by Angelitta (Power User) at 2008-12-17 19:36:09 (4 years ago) - [Report]

How much did you spend to get that?

here.. q6600 with stock cooler, not overclocked 2.4Ghz x 4, 60C on full load with x264 doing encoding for about 40 hours now.

Why bother getting a $120 CPU and overclock it to reach the same performance a $190 CPU can give without overclocking? You just spend the difference in better coolers, more electricity wasted and stressing the memory.

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#1061129 by hmhef Donor

(VIP) at 2008-12-17 21:48:57 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Angelitta wrote:

i got that e2160 for ~$60 (OEM)
and that is the stock cooling :-D

that's the stock fan from my old e2140
actually i can get better result :tease:

the fan doesnt run at 100% untill the temps reach 66c (for some unknown reason), and that temp is 62c

the ram used is kingstone value ram 2x1gb ddr2-667 (cheapest around) , got it about a year ago for ~$30

as u can see from the screen shots, running 1:1 (max ram speed) , a better ram could get better results :yes:

i am actually considering getting 2x2 ddr2-800, just as soon as i have some extra money

#1062002 by unknown[301716] at 2008-12-19 08:43:25 (4 years ago) - [Report]

how much can i overclock my e6550 2.33 ghz with stock cooler?

what voltage to put and? help me please

#1062114 by hmhef Donor

(VIP) at 2008-12-19 13:38:23 (4 years ago) - [Report]

mlijeko888 wrote:

how much can i overclock my e6550 2.33 ghz with stock cooler?

what voltage to put and? help me please

according to some website, the stock cooler can handle heat of up to 3.2Ghz on the 65nm core2duos

get core temp
see the VID it shows, that the volt to start with
notice the Tj max, try to always keep 20~15c differnce between Tj max, and the max load temp

#1065391 by unknown[3671] at 2008-12-25 20:56:17 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Is my PC oc-able? I only don't know the power supply (think it's 350W)

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#1065577 by Angelitta (Power User) at 2008-12-26 09:39:16 (4 years ago) - [Report]

You're already overclocking it with 4Mhz

... It should say 2667 and as you can see from the picture, your BIOS makes it run at 2671.

I think you should be fine overclocking it to about 2800Mhz without changing anything except FSB. Beyond that, you may have to lower the memory timings if those Kingston memories are the Value kind.

The processor should go above 3.2 easily but the power supply may not be able to keep up.

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#1065589 by unknown[3671] at 2008-12-26 10:29:42 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Angelitta wrote:

You're already overclocking it with 4Mhz

...

How did that happen??? :S

#1065591 by Xi0nic Donor

(Power User) at 2008-12-26 10:30:10 (4 years ago) - [Report]

Moshi wrote:

How did that happen??? :S

Rounded 333 to 334.

#1065611 by unknown[227874] at 2008-12-26 12:09:37 (4 years ago) - [Report]

could someone kind enough explain why i get two differnt temp first one is from core temp it says core 1 36c and core 2 38c but when i look at real temp my temps is 30c and 33c idle temps here load temps dont go over 57 i over clock to 3.2ghz on a e6750 stock intel cooler

#1065613 by Xi0nic Donor

(Power User) at 2008-12-26 12:15:17 (4 years ago) - [Report]

mugen40001 wrote:

Because RealTemp is showing a 95C tjmax and CoreTemp is showing a 100C tjmax.
The 100C one is correct; use CoreTemp or correct RealTemp's value to 100C.

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