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what has overclocking done for you?

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SpotTheCat
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what has overclocking done for you?

Wed May 14, 2003 6:09 pm

I can run WC3 at 1600 x 1200 max graphics.... 7fps higher than at stock speeds.
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Wed May 14, 2003 6:13 pm

Cost me nuthin but moola....all in good fun..but i mean...how many damn computers does one man need? :roll:
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Wed May 14, 2003 6:15 pm

Are we talking just overclocking in the strict sense (increasing clock speed), or any sort of mod that allows a processor (or other component) to be run out-of-spec? E.g., I did the Athlon XP -> MP mod on a couple of XP 2100+ chips recently, to allow them to be used in a dually.

Never really got into hard-core overclocking, but I'll take what I can get without extreme measures. My first Socket A CPU was a Duron 650 that would do 950 with only a small bump in core voltage... made everything a lot snappier!
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Wed May 14, 2003 6:18 pm

From my old pentium 100, 166 ,celery 300a, pentium 2 350, celery 433, 850 duron, and to my brand spanky new 2100+ xp cpus, overclocking has brought me days of fun and learning. Not to mention horified looks as smoke poored out of my celery 433 box (some weirdo left a power wire hanging out of the case when he screwed it back on) Normally about 10-20 percent performance boost throught the decade. The celery 300a by far the champion for ratio, had mine up to 500 for a short time :D I never tinkered with my 8086 @8 mghz, nor my 386 or 486 :-?
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Wed May 14, 2003 6:44 pm

Overclocking has given me money I would have otherwise spent on new computer gear.

Now there's a first...

If I hadn't put this CPU up a notch and put the RAM @ CAS2, I'd be looking at a new pc now...

Oh, and about 5fps in Quake 2 ROFLMAO,
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Wed May 14, 2003 7:20 pm

Not much...
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Wed May 14, 2003 7:33 pm

Tons. I'd have half the PCs and gear I do today, if I didn't OC.

I also wouldn't have the knowledge I do, WRT the guts of the box.
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Wed May 14, 2003 7:38 pm

Doing the right overclocks have gained me 80FPS (in Quake 3, that is) on this system here, and about half as much in RTCW and JK2. Quite a noticeable difference, if you ask me.

Yes, these are real benches - I only overclocked the CPU 90MHz, but pushed the RAM to 180/360 DDR... amazing what the AthlonXP does with more RAM bandwidth at its disposal.

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