Overclocking
 

Continuing a run of annoying PC questions...

Almost certainyl buying an XFX 7600GT graphics card for the new PC. Now, these things come in about 4 flavours of factory overclockedness, each more expensive than the last. Just wondered what the merit is of factory clocking over home clocking (apart from the warranty).

it's all a lot easier and better than when I last overclocked a PC component (hopping up a P75 to a staggering indicated 120mhz) :)

Re: Overclocking
 

I think the factory ones are a mix of software, improved heat sink and fans.
At home your just going with whats on there and whats in your box and hopin it don't melt.

Re: Overclocking
 

Easier if change to a water cooling solution.

Re: Overclocking
 

[quote="Grinch"]Funny you mention it, that P75 did start smoking one day :) The actual layour of the XFX 7600s seem to be more or less comparable though, not a huge number of board modifications. Hmm.

I actually overclocked an 800 Duron to think it was a 1500 worked great until I tried to push it to 2000, then the thing caught fire. its all about cooling and how much heat the extra speed is gonna cause.

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Supposedly the 7600s make very little heat... I saw a feature where they managed to get one to run stable with just a plain heatsink. Not oerclocked, though.

My account at Overclockers UK's forum's finally been activated, so hopefully I'll be able to get a conclusive answer from there- but thanks for the help guys.