Overclocking

Retrogamer

Does anyone else on here do this?

I've been doing it for years now (since my socket A Barton 3200 processor days) and never had any failures of components yet.

If anyone else does it, what components do you have overclocked and what speeds are you seeing from them?

Just now i've got my i5 2500k processor overclocked from 3.3ghz to 4.5ghz with good temps. I had it at 4.7Ghz for a few hours but i wasn't happy with the voltage i had to use.

Retrogamer

Bump

Would genuinely be surprised if no one else here runs an overclock on their system.

banger9365

i7 920 @ 4ghz under water 3 to 4 yrs now,no point in ocing under normal use,its not something people do in the main

Weird_Nev

I've dabbled. got a 100Mhz Pentium at 120Mhz in about 1999, It wasn't stable at 133Mhz though!

I've tried with my current laptops Gfx card, but it really doens't like it. It immediately hits high temperatures and then crashes out, for no real performance benefit.

If I was big into it, I'd be buying the "known good" processors and GFX cards. I know people have good results unlocking additional shaders and even cores on AMD processors. But really, unless it's vital to performance, I'd rather spend £20 on the next model up, or else take the performance hit.

Overclocking is a hobby, as I see it. Spend money if you like, but by the time you've got the huge cooling system and expensive Motherboard that can handle the voltage, you amy as well have bought the upsecced system in the first place. (some legendary "free" overclocks excepted).

jaydeeuk1

Celeron 300 to 450mhz, 90% of the speed of a true pentium II 450 for about 20% of the price. 50% overclock impressive even by todays standards. Don't bother nowadays, only play the odd game and office stuff. Plus processors are that powerful, theres little reason to overclock, only ones really worth doing were the AMD athlons that could unlock the extra core (or 2) or converting something like a 6850 to a 6870 through a bios flash.

Undervolting however, is a different story.