i need some help on overclocking. my system is the new amd dragon from amd, i have an amd phenom 2 x4 940 black edition, mobo asus m4a78-e, sapphire 4850 toxic, 2gb kingston hyperx ddr2 1066 dual channel memory and a good cpu air cooling coolermaster v8, i was able to able overclock the cpu only until 3.5 ghz its stock speed is 3.0 ghz. i only used the precustomed o.c from the asus utility to obtain the speed however i wish if i can overclock it to 4.0ghz because i read some blogs and reviews they were able to o.c it to this speed. thanks guyz.

^_^ ok ba? (5 80 mm case fan and 1 92mm casefan)

most people do overclocking kase nakakaramdam sila ng challenge sa sarili nila,..

ung iban naman dahil lang sa pangagailangan ng precise speed,…

sigh..

one thing that i cant figure out right now is the effectiveness ng ram ratio, they say 1:1 is the best set up…

you need an above average motherboard too. you should have those quality capacitors.
and RAMs that can withstand higher clock speed / voltages

i started with a 486 unit when a friend dared me to OC it and he will buy me a new pc if it’s 100% success. from that time, i OCed a lot of system even a video card.

There’s like an adrenaline rush when your pushing your system to its limits. Kinda addicting to be honest.

Right now my Intel Q6600 2.4ghz is overclocked mild 3.2Ghz. I can hit 3.6ghz but I need to raise the voltage and get a better cooling to get it past prime95.

There are two problems with this here:

1) Overclocking parts (liquid or even just decent air coolers) are hard or impossible to find. Forget about find mosfet coolers and the like.

2) Everything is darned expensive compared to our neighbors Singapore and HK.

My solution is I don’t buy local, sincei can;t even get many of the parts locally. Its too bad, they need to fix this as I spend a ton of money on computer parts and buy 90% of my computing hobby outside the Philippines.

Between GMA’s VAT, a stranglehold on certain brands by distributors (meaning price fixing at the retail level). Over aggressive “crackdowns” on so called smuggling. Ridiculous return policies and broken components exchange policies. I mean, when I put together a computer, I need time to put it together and discover if everything works. I do have a real job. Most stores give 7 days! Some go 30 days but with such ridiculous terms that they call everything user damage and refuse to exchange!

Given that, I would rather buy outside and I do. Heck I had a bad video card 4 months after I bought it from a retailer I frequently buy from in Sim Lim and they accepted it back via DHL and sent me a working one.

Not still sure when it will be aired. Could be this week-end or next, no confirmation pa from them e. Will update once ma verify ko.

pa OVERCLOCK nga!

very inspiring nman nyan.. wish i could do it with my mid spec’d rig. lol..

sarap mag build ng rig pag ganyan.. super sulit!

the reason i’m doing this is so that i can eliminate bottlenecks with my graphics card while playing games. when i replaced my old video card with a more expensive one, konti lang nakita kong improvement although more than twice yung price nung bago kung card…after overclocking ayun pwede na maglaro at very high settings. this way i can concentrate on upgrading my gpu instead of buying faster CPUs. you cant gain any significant performance when you try to overclock a cheap gpu unlike a CPU.

my processor has already lasted a year at this state, kung masira man ito due to this abuse ok lang siguro sulit na sulit na yung 1k for 1 year’s worth of use & abuse hehe

Did I miss your show? Hope I can watch it again.

More power to you.

and let’s be honest guys… with the economic crisis and series of layoffs and inflation? who would be stupid enough to buy a highend stuff and burn money. We always have this mindset before we enter into a decision to buy a thing that whether it is a “bang for a buck” or not.

I say lucky for those who can still burn money despite the crisis we’re in, and lucky for those who are pennypinchers that buy cheaper and lower-rated CPUs so they can overclock them and save some dough for other PC parts.

However, what I am very familiar with is GPU overclocking. My graphics card is a midrange NVIDIA card, and those few extra MHz can make all the difference. What was once a choppy game at high settings becomes very playable at the same settings.

But careful and practical enough not to require an additional cooling source as well as destroy the cpu.

A bit of a challenge back then but I would also agree that it was fulfilling to have done it.

if overclocking’s ur game..
gotta consider some of these..

>CPU Cooling and Ventilation
>Power Supply

=)