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Hey I wanted to know if anyone here has ever overclocked a processor and which processors you may think are the best for doing it. I overclocked a pentium at ...
- 04-30-2005 #1Banned
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Hey I wanted to know if anyone here has ever overclocked a processor and which processors you may think are the best for doing it. I overclocked a pentium at 166 mhz to 200 mhz by accident not to long ago so I learned that way.
- 04-30-2005 #2Linux Engineer
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If I need to use a certain video application, I'll crank my 450 up to around 540. Since I don't have any additional cooling fans or anything, I don't make a habit of it.
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- 04-30-2005 #3Linux Engineer
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My Athlon Xp 2500+ went from 1,83 Ghz stock to 2,4 Ghz
. Before, I had a 2200+, 1,8 Ghz stock, but at 2 Ghz it even didn't want to boot (with 2V on it 
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Because of mem problems (more performance if it runs synchronized with the FSB) i'm having it on 2,2 now... Is also a lot cooler, and quieter ** Registered Linux User # 393717 and proud of it ** Check out www.zenwalk.org
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- 04-30-2005 #4Linux Newbie
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UNDERCLOCK
I am going to underclock a Athlon 64 to 2.2 Ghz from 2.4 Ghz. Will run much cooler. It also won't burn itself out. I think you can set the speed in the bios if you have a mobo that will support it.
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- 05-01-2005 #5Linux Newbie
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my cpu is constantly running 700mhz oced with no ill effects thus far. my video card is also oced (though i set it to defaults when not gaming or doing something gpu-intensive)
- 05-01-2005 #6Linux Guru
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Yes, I have overclocked processors before. But at this moment I do not wish to instigate system instability for a few Mhx gain. My first overclock was getting a P2 266 to run stable at 400 (FSB overclock) It ran win 98 fine, but i couldn't get it to boot Red Hat 7 (i think hard drive was screwed).
However, my biggest overclock was the legendary Celeron 300 D @ 650 Mhz. It wouldn't boot windows without a voltage increase, so i dialled it back to 600 Mhz.
I still have the P2 running as a server now, but the celeron gave up a few years ago and died.
- 05-01-2005 #7Just Joined!
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Hi all.
I usually beat my comp with a stick, and make it run at 850MHz - It's a 533MHz Celeron Coppermine. This i did by raising the FSB from 66 to 100MHz, with no extra voltage and a seriously bigger cooler =P
It runs farely stable (except when compiling the kernel =/)
/GbyTe
- 05-01-2005 #8Linux User
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No, but that's what I'm trying to do now. I have a Celeron 2Ghz processor.
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- 05-01-2005 #9Linux User
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Personally I have never been interested in overclocking.
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- 05-02-2005 #10Linux Engineer
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Nope, it's not really worth it to me. I used to overclock an AMD XP 2200+ to about 1.9GHz (from 1.
when I was a Windows user back in the day. Just made everything unstable as hell (maybe it was Windows that was doing that, not the overclocking...)
But there's not a whole lot to gain unless you're in a race....
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