Oveclocked CPU

[PN]

The Screen Savers - Friday, November 15, 2003

By Yoshi DeHerrera

The Mach I is a wonderful system that cools the CPU down to minus 10 degrees Celsius at idle. To make sure the Mach I was up to the task, I left the system running at 100 percent CPU load for three days straight. The temperature stayed at a chilly 4 degrees Celsius and didn't fluctuate at all. By comparison, the stock air cooling unit on my CPU running at 3.2 GHz had a temperature of about 50 degrees Celsius under full load. The CPU won't run at 4 GHz with air cooling.

I was able to overclock the CPU to 4.3 GHz, but the chip was unstable. Four GHz is good enough for me.

Tech TV (http://www.techtv.com/screensavers/modtips/story/0,24330,3572148,00.html)

PN

[This message was edited by PN on 11-16-03 at 08:41 PM.]

[~Patrick~]

is it such a significant change that you can actualy see it in the performance of the machine?

[PN]

"Processors read the information you instruct the Computer to perform. The faster the processors the faster the information is read and acted upon." However, in this case going from a Pentium 3.2GHz to a Pentium 4.0GHz, the majority of us with the software that we are running, I don't believe we will see or notice any difference in performance. Also, when I watched this episode of the Screen Savers, they did not do a demonstration of this PC running at 4GHz before or after.

PN

http://www.overclockers.com/

[This message was edited by PN on 11-17-03 at 09:43 PM.]

[jimnms]

Overclocking is common with hard core gamers, and those that just want to do it because they can. I've overclocked before, but not to the point where I have to start adding water cooling and stuff.

I don't overclock until I find a game that my system has trouble with. My last computer was a P3 933. I only went from 933MHz up to 1.1GHz. It made a slight difference, I did take it faster, but would overheat and become unstable. I could have invested in better cooling, but why not put that towards a new faster computer instead.

I've now got a P4 2.66HGz, I'm not overclocking yet, because I can run all my games on max detail, except FS 2004. I may overclock it a little, or sell it while it's still worth something and upgrade to a 3.2Ghz with 800MHz FSB.

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[krstofer]

Wonder how much water condensed in that thing?
And can one "see" an increase of 600 mhz? What if the data access time ramains the same?
I bet unless one increases the speed of the entire machine, (ram, busses, video, etc) no real world increase will be noticable.

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