Richard_The_Lionhearted

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.

retired1af

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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borromini

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 ).
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

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Samoth

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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jnev

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)

AlexK

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.

gbyte

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

Fallen Angel

No, but that's what I'm trying to do now. I have a Celeron 2Ghz processor.

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jimbaloo

Personally I have never been interested in overclocking.

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sether

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....