Just finished a taping for one segment of QTV 11′s “Ang Pinaka” and our topic was January 2009′s most searched “how to’s” in the Philippines.
Among the top searched “how to” related topics were — how to overclock a cpu” and “how to install”. When asked why those are among the two searched terms, I was tempted to say “it’s because Pinoys are very geeky and cheap”.
In my entire computing life, I’ve only attempted overclocking a CPU thrice and succeeded in two of them. The overclocking crowd is divided into two groups.
- The Practical Overclockers — those who are pennypinchers that buy cheaper and lower-rated CPUs so they can overclock them and save some dough for other PC parts. This also includes those who have older CPUs and want to upgrade but don’t have the budget.
- The Enthusiast Overclockers — people who overclock their CPU just because they can.
In the Philippines, I think a lot of Filipinos belong to the first group. I know because I used to be one.
How about you? Do you have any experiences with overclocking?
Tried to overclock my very first cpu but chickened out because it was the only PC in the house at that time!
I overclock just for benchmarking, its fun to see how far you can push your PC. The biggest overclock I was able to manage is a jump from 2.0 to 3.1 using a Pentium D 505 I think. =)
ngek.
syempre, i-g-google na tuloy namin lalo yan! hehe
Yeah…Overclocking has become a facinating hobby to pc enthusiast here in Phil,,,like me…i dont buy any pc parts just to use it…i bought them to be overclocked…. Gnyan tlga minsan ugale ng mga pinoy, 2lad ko na nbili lang ng mga gamit like my q9450,GA-x48-DQ6,palit Radeon 4870 in xfire and mah patriot viper series not just to play or use it as a daily basis but to have the highest overclocking capability…As far as i go im now at 4.25 ghz running on a dangerden Tower-21 water cooling kit with my aircon in front of my radiator and load temps only reaching at 56 celcious… this is only a shared topic… para may mapag usapan nman about sa OC ^^
guyz im in the second type too,..
i have amd sempron 2.1ghz, to 2.9ghz..
temp: idle 17c max load 37c
^_^ 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…
hey guys.
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.
mga kua para sakin…tama c @katsune..kc i was just a 15 y/o kid and mahilig ako sa overclocking nag search lng ako ng nag search…about overclocking my amd athlon 64 3000+ Processor..1.8Ghz stock now. at 2.0Ghz kahit maliit lng ung nadagdag…ang problem is.. ung memory..ndi overclocking memory ang gamit ko…my feeling was great kc ngaun ko lng nalaman..may ganun pla akung talent…