As some of you may have noticed I've been grumbling about my 3000+ for awhile now. But since I paired it up with my new Gigabyte ULi K8U motherboard things have really turned around. The last gigabyte mobo I had simply refused to overclock, I mean at all. Nothing worked. But I don't know what it is but this new chipset has me really impressed. I dialed my cpu from 1.8GHz to 2.25GHz without breaking a sweat. It still idles at 34 C or so. I'm just very impressed. I don't know what it will be like under load so I won't take it any further for now but that's a very major jump right there. I hope to a good difference in things like HL2 and Quake 4 as both are pretty CPU intensive. So for any of you out there hoping to upgrade but not really made of money at the moment I could really see going with a simple 3000-3500 CPU and just tapping things up a few hundred MHz. It's a great value.
What kind of settings and frame rates are you getting with that sys on cod2 of fear?? off topic but hey. nice oc and its runs at 34c !!!
Ex, the man who spoke too soon. Not too long after I posted that I got a couple BSODs and decided I might have pushed a bit too hard so I jacked it down to 2.1GHz to be safe. I might try more but frankly it's not necessary. I haven't tried FEAR yet but it should run a lot better. HL2 was a very different experience it autodetected 4x AA and AF and maxxed all the other settings for me. Last time most stuff was on medium. I only have the Call of Duty 2 demo which only lets you put detail settings on normal (read 'medium') but at least it ran geat with all that and 4x AA. TimeShift used to run like complete crap (the demo) before but now I can max it all (including HDR lighting) and it looks a lot better than before. I further increase performance for things like FEAR and Quake 4 which I'm yet to try I overclocked my video card a bit (not a very good card for OCing) from 325/750 to like 382/792 and used RivaTuner to bring my pipeline count to 16 (up from 12) and up my vertex shader could to 6. So in the end my rig has more life left in it than I may have thought. I'll let you guys know in a while how FEAR runs I guess.
frankly i deeply respect those who have the balls to oc. i am scared of doing some harm to my hardware that i have saved for for so long.i sound like an old women but there it is. I mean how much do u know about all the different respects of ocing and do u know exactly what you are doing. Im keen but at the same time very scared to tinker with things i dont know alot about Where does one read about all this
well the overclockers forums would be a good place to start just make sure you search for stickies as they're a bit touchy about started threads that have already been discussed many times. To be honest it's dead easy to just bump up your clockspeed a few hundred MHz. There are those that get hard core, get the phasechange cooling and screw with voltages and go for the 1 GHz overclock etc but I'm contend just keeping it at 300 exta MHz. Motherboards vary but generally you should be able to find some enty in the BIOS menu that says 'freqency/voltage control' or something to that effect. From there I just looked for CPU clock or core clock and it was listed as 200MHz (multiplied by 18 for my beginning 1.8GHz) and I just changed the 200 to 210 to be sure I could get somewhere and then after I checked things were stable by booting up a game I restarted and changed that 210 to 250 (it turned out to be a bit too much and unstable to I changed that to 235 and it's good now). Some might argue I did that too fast but things worked out fine in the end.
Yea, fortunately, permanent damage form an OC is rare. The computer usually either starts or it doesn't. Then you just go back into the BIOS and put it back/lower it.
