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?
I’m a gamer so I fall into the 2nd type. Every year I buy a new CPU and, in the past couple of years, new video cards every 6-8 months. Sometimes this forces me to buy a new mobo and entire platform. So I might as well spend a bit of extra time getting my FPS up with OCing my CPU, video and ram.
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.
I guess I belong to the “cheap” and “no budget” group. You know the saying “necessity is the mother of invention”. :)
Hello everyone,
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.
@vaughn..
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!
i believe i’m part of the first group. i have my very cheap cheap processor which i bought 2nd hand for 1k (pentium dual core e2140) running at more than twice its stock speed permanently(from 1.6ghz to 3.4ghz). my motherboard is kinda high-end/enthusiast level but i also bought it 2nd hand.
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
Okay I’m gonna watch Ang Pinaka, Sunday right? 6pm I guess. I just want to see you Abe.
comment ba ako??? bIRTHDAY KO..
Hi Yuga,
Did I miss your show? Hope I can watch it again.
More power to you.
i overclock my cpu just for fun… I even overclock my laptop’s video memory so that it will be abit faster… but i am not cheap but i admit i am practical. Yeah i may have a Blue h1 umpc which is CHEAP but its the practical choice compared to other 7″inch netbooks.
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.
im guilty. i search the google too on how to overclock a cpu. hahaha i wanted to try it but it’s not easy to overclock a cpu and im afraid to do it.. hehe
i didnt even know “overclocking” as a word.. but then again, maybe it’s tech geek speak.
I’m not familiar with CPU overclocking. With dual, and even quad cores now ever so common, I don’t believe I need the extra CPU power.
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.
I’m part of the first group, was still in school and I could not afford to upgrade, so a little overclocking helped out to get a little bit more juice.
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.
I overclocked my CPU because I just wanted to and I can. I think aside from the added speed to your CPU, overclocking also gives a sense of fulfillment to those people who have done it successfully because it requires a lot of patience and setting adjustments before successfully making a stable overclocked system.
uu nga kelan to?hehe
When will it be aired? so we can watch it.
I’ve tried overclocking once with an old PC. but i never did it again.
gotta save..
if overclocking’s ur game..
gotta consider some of these..
>CPU Cooling and Ventilation
>Power Supply
=)
Overclocking is totally new word to me. Thank God we have Google.I got fully understand the term. And one thing for sure, ill be watching that show on QTV. Kelan airing nun? Para ma abangan ko din. ehehhe
Oh pahabol, when does this air? Para aabangan kita sa tv. Haha. :D
Haha. That’s cool Abe. I sometimes watch that show “Ang Pinaka” and it’s pretty good depending on the week’s topic.
I have to agree on why people overclock though. Especially pinoys, a lot of filipinos buy cheap parts, build own CPU and overclock to save money. :D