Dave2150
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- Jan 20, 2015
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Hi all,
I've just spent several days, (while foot is in plaster - crushed between motorbike and a high kerbstone - motorbike argued with a Petrol Tanker and lost ! ), hunting down parts to replace my, still gorgeous and swift, and ancient, pre-2009 build :-
Asus M3N78+AMD Phenom 955-Arctic 7 ? cooler+4gb Ballistix
Kingston SV300S37A60 SSD, Zotac 9400GT,
Seasonic 430watt psu in there somewhere, ....Jmicron eSATA pcie x1 card
...must be some other stuff in there ...LG DVD ROM, DVDRW, Camera card bay, 160gb+500gb 7,200 hd's in there, ...Startech caddyless hd bay, ...Kingston boot SSD is in a 2.5" to 3.5" converter, in an Antec Solo case....enough of my kit.
So since pre-2009 it hasn't missed a beat. Wouldn't want to knacker my Windows platform by OC'ing it ! I have tentatively read up on the subject several times across past few years, and several times, (after always first imaging boot hard disk out to external hard disk ready to recover knackered Windows registry), experimented a little, then pushed a "little," a little too far, and always ended up with a knackered registry.
So, I always thought to myself, why stress that expensive CPU, (and RAM), beyond the thermal rating at which it was binned ? ...I don't fancy frying it and having to buy another one, ...I could barely afford the last one ! And if I'd found a stable overclock, I doubt the thing would have lasted 6+ years. After decades of chucking out motherboards and CPU's, (almost monthly in the early years), for that next better model/generation, it was great to reach a point where hardware has remained pleasantly useable for over 6 years !
Anyhoo, I've just received an Asus M5A97 EVO R2.0 (didn't need SLI or CrossFire or whatever it's called - don't play games), FX-8320, 2xBallistix 4gb Tactical (damn / that means I've got to get a 64 bit Windows :-(, and will soon be rearranging the innards of two PC cases. I noticed, during my wading through the web that the above board is bristling with overclocking features but, I doubt that I'll be using them.
But then again, if I could have a small overclock without frying the thing, or corrupting the registry, I might get tempted
bfn, Richard
It's better to into a bend slow and come out fast,
than it is to go in fast and come out dead !
...or in my case, ...go in fast and smack into a petrol tanker
I've got a X58 I7 920 overclocked by 1.2Ghz from stock 2.66Ghz to 3.86Ghz from day one.
Build was delivered December 22nd 2008 - 6 years 4 months, and it hasn't missed a beat. No failed windows installed, no corrupted data, nothing.
Certain CPU's are simply capable of a far greater frequency than they were binned for.
As long as temperatures under load are fine and the voltage increase to get to the desired overclock isn't too much, then you have no issues at all with overclocking.