Overclocking is the Dumbest thing you can do!

[VirtualLarry]

The only board that I ever killed was my favorite BX6-r2 Abit board. I was testing a slotket tualatin mod, and I had somehow managed, with a combination of wires in the socket, as well as jumper settings on the slotket, to cross over the +Vcc and Gnd. Oops. Chip/slotket got hot in a hurry, amazingly the CPU was fine, but I had scorched the VRMs on the motherboard. RIP.

 

[Gillbot]

Originally posted by: aigomorla

Originally posted by: KIAman
How to overclock your Toyota Camry XLE 3.5

Step 1: Purchase Toyota Camry XLE 3.5 (top of the line) for ~ 27k
Step 2: Acquire Lexus logo and front grill
Step 3: Remove Toyota front grill and trunk logo
Step 4: Attach Lexus front grill and trunk logo

Enjoy your new Lexus ES 350 for 8k cheaper.

ROFLMAO!!!!

You got it wrong.

Step1: Buy a Honda Civic DX
Step2: Get a Super charger and front race slicks.
Step3: Get NOS
Step4: You need the powered by Honda sticker. Remember Stickers increase overclocking.
Step5: Now you got an overclocked car.

Why waste $ on nitrous and a supercharger, stickers are cheaper.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

I guess the reason I've gravitated toward this hobby follows along these lines.

In my earlier life, living in northern Virginia, either after night-school or bringing work home, I'd take one of my souped-up Honda Civics out for a drive in the cool night air to "relieve stress." There was this two-lane road in the Occoquan Basin between Woodbridge and Manassas -- a smattering of country estates and 5-acre horse-farms with some really sweet turns, a patch of fairly smooth dirt and gravel, some hills.

When I was younger, I had a lead foot, and now, I'm disinclined. Disinclined for keeping my insurance premiums low; disinclined at $4 per gallon; disinclined for an SUV that doesn't corner well and gets 15 mpg.

So now, I just sit here, tweak my computers and play "TrackMania" and some other racing games.

Maybe I just shifted my budget for gas, oil and parts-replacement into another pastime.

 

[Jschmuck2]

Originally posted by: Idontcare

Originally posted by: Tenet
WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!?!?!

Total Fatal!ty



Loved it. No shortage of people who think they know soooo much more than every other person on the internet. Inexhaustible supply of arrogance.

Clearly you've been on these boards before.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Well, there's self-awareness, and perhaps even some arrogance that begins to follow along with a territory that has its down-side.

And there's just wisdom. For instance, unlike some people who appear on TV with their cliche'd palaver, West Texas drawl and gaffes -- to get my blood-pressure up -- I know that I'm too smart to think I'm either smart enough or in other ways suited to be President.

So like the Clint Eastwood line in the movie -- " . .. Man's got to know his limitations. . . . "

 

[codyz2035]

??? no, if you know what you're doing you can get a big boost in performance from OC and it will still last for years. by the time the cpu or RAM or whatever your OC goes out, you have probably already upgraded.

 

[Dadofamunky]

LOL. This guy sounds like someone who would say, "don't touch that CPU, it's CMOS technology, you'll fry it through static voltage!"

You damn kids get off my lawn!

 

[bharatwaja]

Overclocking voiding the warranty, i can accept, Intel (and AMD) have ways to find that out.... how can intel find out if i am using an aftermarket cooler??? I've been wondering about this for quite a while now.... How?? How how how how can they find out if I'm not using the HSF given by them??

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Ocguy31

Originally posted by: Rubycon
This could be why Penryns never got above 3.2GHz.

Yes but that is your experience, with your chip, using the voltages that you tried.

She was obviously talking about @ stock speeds. I guess she hadn't realized that they're now selling the E8600 @ 3.33 Ghz.

Originally posted by: bharatwaja
How how how how can they find out if I'm not using the HSF given by them??

They can't, as long as you aren't dumb enough to send them the stock heatsink, with its' unused thermal pad still intact. Not that you, or anyone else, should be trying to RMA an overclocked CPU.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
http://www.lotd.org/forums/sho...ead.php?t=15852&page=3

/runs away

Haha, thanks for the link, I think. After reading Drakkul's posts, I'm pretty sure I've lost about 10 IQ points. BTW, from now on, I'll be saying "Don't be a Drakkul", instead of "Don't be a dumbass."

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Drakkul was the name of some . . . . group of Romanian knights . . . . associated with the Dracula legend.

[My third favorite Anthony Hopkins movie -- "Bram Stoker's Dracula":

DR. VAN HELSING: [leaning over the banquet and cutting a big slice of roast beef, with his mouth full . . . nonchalantly saying :] "First . . . we'll drive a stake through her heart . . . and then . .. . we'll cut off her head . . . "

 

[Amart]

Originally posted by: Jschmuck2
/runs away

/Chases with a large trout!

Actually I was just hiding my (most likely inaccurate) comments about Allendale/Conroe and wafers.

 

[OCChronic]

Overclocking can be a direct economic benefit and very fun to do. It is risky, frustrating and sometimes downright puzzling when the results aren't what you want in the end. That is why, like anything worth doing, it involves calculated risk.

A system can be Prime Orthos stable and still crash when encoding, or gaming if your memory timings are too tight or your memory is oveclocked just a little bit beyond its limits. I've overclocked for ten years and never lost a chip or mainboard yet but fried plenty of RAM.

I find DDR2 to be very sensitive to over voltage and easy to kill.

 

[Rubycon]

Originally posted by: myocardia

She was obviously talking about @ stock speeds. I guess she hadn't realized that they're now selling the E8600 @ 3.33 Ghz.

Perhaps I should rephrase that to Quad Penryns. Dual cores are of little use to me now.

 

[unr3al]

I've overclocked every PC I've owned except my 486. Didn't have the expertise back then *coughs* lol but seriously this is hilarious. I ran a 900MHz Duron at 1044MHz for who knows how long, I ran a 2.8GHz Celeron at 3.45GHz for even longer. And my current chip has been between stock and 2.8GHz for a year now. Haven't really noticed any performance drops... And none of the aforementioned chips have popped either.

 

[zanejohnson]

what an idiot.... my wife uses an AXP 1800+ (1.6GHz by default) it's been running at 2GHz for years and years...never had a single problem...

we also have a Northwood 2.4b @ 3.6GHz, been overclocked since day 1...still runs like a champ, and is actually pretty quick considering its a single core chip of course..

and my PC, is about 3 years old... 930D Presler core 3.0GHz by default, i have it at 3.8GHz, stable as a rock, temps are great...it's on water, and under load it will go to high 40C's....and it's undervolted to boot...

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Originally posted by: Rubycon

Originally posted by: myocardia

She was obviously talking about @ stock speeds. I guess she hadn't realized that they're now selling the E8600 @ 3.33 Ghz.

Perhaps I should rephrase that to Quad Penryns. Dual cores are of little use to me now.

I'm a "cautious" over-clocker. I still have work to do with this E8600 [currently @ 4.0 Ghz with settings stable for 4.1]. But comparing my Q6600 against this Wolfdale, I could only imagine the quad shining with multi-tasking that includes video-rendering -- possibly gaming and more simultaneous CPU-intensive tasks. Doing that sort of thing as a matter of practice may require multi-tasking too many of my own brain-cells.

The general profiles I've seen here at the forums for C2D vs C2Q over-clocking always show the C2Q with more severe limitations.

To the more general topic -- risk -- it seems that I've burned up three motherboards: two identical Springdale chipsets, and a 680i. One of the Springdale's -- a P4P800SE -- was subject to my brother's faulty household wiring with no UPS system. It may well be that the 680i was "on the edge" from the time I purchased it. We'll see if -- and how -- it returns to me from the RMA department.

But I've never lost a CPU. I burned up a set of Crucial Ballistix -- but then, who hasn't? For the Springdales, I find myself with two spare socket-478 CPUs available for the two remaining Springdale systems in the family. Chances are, they'll never be needed, they'll never be sold for more than chump-change to pay for advertising, and they'll never find active usage again. But they're still "good."

 

[daw123]

Well I think it's a crime against the computing world to overclock (just kidding ).

I'm a newbie when it comes to over-clocking (never done it before) but I'm willing to give it a go. I'll do my research, read Graysky's guide, and take my time. It may take weeks or even months to get it just right, but what the hell, it's a hobby. And I'm not going to run stupid voltages through the chip; probably go up to a max of 1.37V to 1.38V VCore. I'll also wait until I have the liquid cooling setup and I'll make sure that the temps don't go too high under load.

The original quote must be from someone who has a vested interest in people buying more expensive CPUs (not that I can say too much because I did buy an expensive CPU)

 

[jeffw2767602]

ive had a q6600 oc'd to 3.6ghz for a year now (both my first build and oc) and i have had no problems, except for 4 sets of crucial ballistix dying. once i swapped those out for some gskill 2x2gb its been smooth sailing from then on. crucial is great with their rma service but i mean cmon, 4 sets lol.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: jeffw2767602
ive had a q6600 oc'd to 3.6ghz for a year now (both my first build and oc) and i have had no problems, except for 4 sets of crucial ballistix dying. once i swapped those out for some gskill 2x2gb its been smooth sailing from then on. crucial is great with their rma service but i mean cmon, 4 sets lol.

I have had 4 sets of Gskill die, and 2 Crucial Ballistix ! They both bite....

 

[mhahnheuser]

Originally posted by: PliotronX
I love it when people get all high and mighty over what others do with hardware they paid for. If anything in this day and age of every little facet of overclocking, tweaking, safe voltages and temperatures documented, overclocking is a lot less risky. It all depends on the user. Even if it was as dangerous as this poster asserts, who cares if they blow their stuff up? Don't we learn a lot of the time through T&E? The only possible downside is the frivolous RMAs chipmakers must process, taking up valuable resources from people with real hardware issues. I would love to be the one to stamp a giant red "VOID" onto the damaged hardware before it's returned to the user.

The real problem is that these happy go lucky OCer's flog their wares off to Mr & Ms Noob after the baking has been completed, or worse flog off a dud on ebay. But then it's never been OCed. One careful old lady owner, hardly ever out of the shed eh! Yeh right!

 

[mhahnheuser]

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: jeffw2767602
ive had a q6600 oc'd to 3.6ghz for a year now (both my first build and oc) and i have had no problems, except for 4 sets of crucial ballistix dying. once i swapped those out for some gskill 2x2gb its been smooth sailing from then on. crucial is great with their rma service but i mean cmon, 4 sets lol.

I have had 4 sets of Gskill die, and 2 Crucial Ballistix ! They both bite....

Well perhaps that says it all. OCing is not such a good idea after all. I have tons of old perfectly good RAM lying around waiting for an older system to put it in. Hey but then I don't OC. I've used both brands and heaps of others and over 20 years of building pc's I've seen no more than half a dozen cases of failed RAM due to normal operating conditions, such a high failure rate is trying to tell you something, maybe you should listen.

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: mhahnheuser

Originally posted by: Markfw900

Originally posted by: jeffw2767602
ive had a q6600 oc'd to 3.6ghz for a year now (both my first build and oc) and i have had no problems, except for 4 sets of crucial ballistix dying. once i swapped those out for some gskill 2x2gb its been smooth sailing from then on. crucial is great with their rma service but i mean cmon, 4 sets lol.

I have had 4 sets of Gskill die, and 2 Crucial Ballistix ! They both bite....

Well perhaps that says it all. OCing is not such a good idea after all. I have tons of old perfectly good RAM lying around waiting for an older system to put it in. Hey but then I don't OC. I've used both brands and heaps of others and over 20 years of building pc's I've seen no more than half a dozen cases of failed RAM due to normal operating conditions, such a high failure rate is trying to tell you something, maybe you should listen.

ALL of that ram was UNDERCLOCKED, not overlocked.....My problem is with the memory in general. All my CPU's are overclocked and doing just fine....

 

[AcEZer0]

Im pretty sure anyone who posts on this thread is a overclocker.. Why else would you read that guys garbage..oh that's right to bash him..Ive been overclocking cpu,s well for a very long time. to long to give away my age..Ive never had a blown cpu ever.. and I can make most cpu,s with the right hsf run up to 180 percent.. Im currently running my quad core at 8.5gb running at 80 percent efficiency at 30 degrees core temp..

 

[TekDemon]

Im pretty sure anyone who posts on this thread is a overclocker.. Why else would you read that guys garbage..oh that's right to bash him..Ive been overclocking cpu,s well for a very long time. to long to give away my age..Ive never had a blown cpu ever.. and I can make most cpu,s with the right hsf run up to 180 percent.. Im currently running my quad core at 8.5gb running at 80 percent efficiency at 30 degrees core temp..

Why the heck did you just bump a thread from 2 years ago up to rant about what people posted?!?