Overclocking PC stuff

[northwind]

Just started mucking about with my new motherboard and old 2.8ghz Pentium D... And it turns out that without even trying very hard, it clocks to 3500mhz! Quite surprised there, it's still only hitting 53 degrees even under torture testing, and it's totally stable. Overclocking rules! Free power... When I got that processor, a 3.4 was £200 more, and it bnches faster than a 3400 at stock clocks.

Or, am I just getting geekier? :?

[hovis]

:smt015 ehhhh???

[Baph]

Just started mucking about with my new motherboard and old 2.8ghz Pentium D... And it turns out that without even trying very hard, it clocks to 3500mhz! Quite surprised there, it's still only hitting 53 degrees even under torture testing, and it's totally stable. Overclocking rules! Free power... When I got that processor, a 3.4 was £200 more, and it bnches faster than a 3400 at stock clocks.

Or, am I just getting geekier? :?
You're happy to overclock, but worried about Linux. Erm. Strange fella you are. :P

[thor]

OC'ing rules.

[cuffy]

I was messing round with the processor the other day...made a coleslaw, smoothies and finely chopped onions.......i love processors :D

[northwind]

You're happy to overclock, but worried about Linux. Erm. Strange fella you are. :P

It's just turning things up, isn't it :)

[mysteryjimbo]

From what i remember, the older pentiums were sometimes the same chip clocked differently. It saved them changing the manufactuing line over. So if you were lucky, you'd get a better processor clocked down.

[BILLY]

I was messing round with the processor the other day...made a coleslaw, smoothies and finely chopped onions.......i love processors :D

I bet you've got a bread maker as well :lol:

[Rob S (Yella)]

I tried to overclock my old P4 2.6 to 3.? and it went zzzzzpphhhhhhhh... ssssshsssss.

Then it didn't work.

Neither did the motherboard.

[philipMac]

From what i remember, the older pentiums were sometimes the same chip clocked differently. It saved them changing the manufactuing line over. So if you were lucky, you'd get a better processor clocked down.

Mystery Jimbo is once again exactly right.
A mate of mine used to score eBay looking for special numbers demarcating these under marked chips. At one point they were flogging the test runs of 64bit chips as 32bit chips, knowing that the 64bit chip can emulate...
(Also, do i not remember you have top of the line cooling apps? and really good thermal grease and things.)


How sad. I can remember what's in Northwind's desktop, and not remember amino acid structures, or various other biology stuff that make me look like a muppet. Come on Philip... Glycine??? Non polar! Stable! *sigh*.

****.

[northwind]

(Also, do i not remember you have top of the line cooling apps? and really good thermal grease and things.)


Nothing really out of the ordinary, a £15 Arctic Cooler Pro and Arctic Silver compound- no point in mucking about with less I reckon. I might bin it for something humungous like a Tuniq Tower though, just to quieten it back down... It's in a £30 Akasa case with as much airflow as the Moon ;) Motherboard's quite good though.

And yes, it's very sad :)