| How much should I Overclock? [message #237567] |
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Im wondering how much I should overclock my computer. I have a AMD 64bit 3500+ running at 2.2ghz. The average temperature of the CPU is 24C and about 27C while proccesing. Ive alredy overclocked to 2.4ghz and im wonering how much more, if any is safe to do.
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| Re: How much should I Overclock? [message #237573 is a reply to message #237567] |
Sat, 06 January 2007 10:24  |
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I found that VIA chipsets have audio difficulties on OCing, onboard audio.
You should consider if you really need to, you do if your CPU usage hits 100% when you're playing something like renegade. I never dare go beyond 10% of it's correct freuquency, for you, that's 2.2 --> 2.42 Ghz, not much, You could probably get away with... 2.7 maybe 2.8. I should warn you that OC'd chips don't behave. Also, AMD chips are (or were) happy to melt themselves.
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| Re: How much should I Overclock? [message #237586 is a reply to message #237567] |
Sat, 06 January 2007 12:21 |
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It's normal for your CPU to constantly be on the highest load when playing any sort of game that uses a graphics API. When Windows needs to use some of it for another program, the kernel automatically adjusts it.
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| Re: How much should I Overclock? [message #237621 is a reply to message #237567] |
Sat, 06 January 2007 15:27 |
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The only thing I overclock is my video card, by unlocking the 4 hidden pipelines and the shaders. All Geforce 6800s come with 12 pipelines, but if you are lucky enough you can unlock 4 more pipelines (making a total of 16) without receiving artifacts. I'm one of the lucky ones... it helps quite noticeably.
Also, to elaborate on what I said about CPU usage, here is a screenshot below to prove my statement. The only reason you see your CPU usage at 10% while playing Renegade is because it instantly goes down as soon as you minimize the game. If you boot it up in windowed mode, you can bring up the task manager and see your actual CPU usage. Make sure you're in a game though or else it just idles.
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| Re: How much should I Overclock? [message #237627 is a reply to message #237567] |
Sat, 06 January 2007 15:40 |
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You find its max and overclock to that, as long as the temperature does not exceed 50C. My 3500+ did 2.7 and stayed below 45C with a XP-90 heatsink, but it wouldn't stay stable over 2.7 without a lot of voltage.
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Also, AMD chips are (or were) happy to melt themselves.
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They're absolutely not. Also, I don't know why you'd even want to use VIA in the first place, let alone overclock with one.
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| Re: How much should I Overclock? [message #237980 is a reply to message #237567] |
Mon, 08 January 2007 07:42 |
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To be honest overclocking isn't worth it, you might aswel just save your money and just by it from a store, even if you do overclock you have to do it by 30% or else you won't see any difference in game play and besides 40-50FPS in a 42player server is good enough anyway
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| Re: How much should I Overclock? [message #238084 is a reply to message #237567] |
Mon, 08 January 2007 15:43 |
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How do you overclock? The processor in this computer is 1.3GHz and I run renegade on all highest settings and max resolution and I get 20-30FPS.
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| Re: How much should I Overclock? [message #238162 is a reply to message #237567] |
Tue, 09 January 2007 02:56 |
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To be honest Renx is near enough right.
People can't afford these top end graphics cards and Intel Dual core PentiumD and these Dual core2, some of these can sit you back £200-300, which i certainly wouldn't pay, if your looking for a new CPU i'd advice a PentiumD 2.8Ghz Dual core, but again this wouldn't even compare to a dual 2 core at 1.88ghz, The pentium D is a huge over clocker, this can be overclocked to around 4.2Ghz @ stable  , now thats a nice CPU, but then again overclocking isn't as good as some people think, yes better performance and so on, more FPS on renegade, but depending on how much your overclocking you system depends on how long it's going to live for 
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| Re: How much should I Overclock? [message #238185 is a reply to message #238162] |
Tue, 09 January 2007 09:34 |
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| PunkeD wrote on Tue, 09 January 2007 05:56 |
To be honest Renx is near enough right.
People can't afford these top end graphics cards and Intel Dual core PentiumD and these Dual core2, some of these can sit you back £200-300, which i certainly wouldn't pay, if your looking for a new CPU i'd advice a PentiumD 2.8Ghz Dual core, but again this wouldn't even compare to a dual 2 core at 1.88ghz, The pentium D is a huge over clocker, this can be overclocked to around 4.2Ghz @ stable , now thats a nice CPU, but then again overclocking isn't as good as some people think, yes better performance and so on, more FPS on renegade, but depending on how much your overclocking you system depends on how long it's going to live for
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A 2Ghz Core2 would beat a 4Ghz P4 hands down. The best bang for your buck CPU is probably the E6600 right now, and I'm pretty sure Intel is dropping prices on CPUs up to 40% soon too.
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