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The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!
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12. August 2007 @ 08:54 |
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It's like I said before. On the average laptop there's nothing to be gained in overclocking it! Throttling would take away any gains because there's just no way to improve the cooling, and it might even perform worse!
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13. August 2007 @ 04:17 |
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In the case of a few laptops I bet that's true. The fans on some laptops run flat out as it is!
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13. August 2007 @ 04:18 |
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If in theory alone and for no other reason than curiosity could you change the Bios on a stock machine/laptop to allow adjustments for OC'ing?
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Watercooled Xbox360 too......!
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13. August 2007 @ 04:20 |
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I doubt there are many replacement BIOSes for stock machines, and even so, I wouldn't expect them to contain many other features. Besides, stock PCs don't have the parts for overclocking anyway, they'll probably just crash before they get in danger of overheating.
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tinytom
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13. August 2007 @ 04:38 |
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Its just all the talk about laptops and cooling got me thinking. Just for a project could it be done? Could you uprate a laptops cooling and if so make it oc'able. The sort of cooling Im thinking of wouldnt make it much of a 'laptop' any more tho!
Found this whilst searching, an other idea......
http://folk.ntnu.no/bardlund/hack.jsp
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2x Laing DDC Ultras with custom tops, 2xBlack Ice GT 360mm Rads with 6x Xilence120mm fans, D-tek fuzion CPU block, EK nb/sb/gpu and both sets of mosfets water blocks, 2x 250ml reservoirss, full 1/2" tubing set up.
Watercooled Xbox360 too......!
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13. August 2007 @ 05:56 |
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Assuming the motherboard allowed it, you could probably get a 20% overclock at most, even using water cooling and abandoning the laptop chassis altogether. It'd be an interesting experiment, but it would serve little purpose to making the PC faster, even if it didn't need to be portable.
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tinytom
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13. August 2007 @ 06:20 |
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Was just in 'theory' if the bios could be tweaked to allow clocking.
Ive never heard of it before but Ive not looked for custom bios and thats why I was asking?
I quite like the idea of a cooling/clocking project tho.
Must get my PC done first tho!
Asus Comando mobo, Q6600 G0, 2gig Corsair Dominator PC8500 1066mhz, Nvidia 7600GS sonic 256mb, Modded-Thermaltake Bach VX with custom fan and air tunnel, 750w thermaltake modular PSU, 37gb Rapter, 3x baracuda 500gig, 1x baracuda 750gig, 22" Asus MW221u w/s, Creative S750 Gigaworks 7.1 surround
2x Laing DDC Ultras with custom tops, 2xBlack Ice GT 360mm Rads with 6x Xilence120mm fans, D-tek fuzion CPU block, EK nb/sb/gpu and both sets of mosfets water blocks, 2x 250ml reservoirss, full 1/2" tubing set up.
Watercooled Xbox360 too......!
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13. August 2007 @ 17:35 |
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hello, please help me.
i have a modable (according to the fuses) sapphire x800 gto agp card. i heard its possible to unlock the pipes and turn it into an x850 xt. how can i do this? anyone's help will be greatly appreciated.
But they all do sort of the same thing, and that is rearrange what you thought was real, and they remind you of the beauty of very simple things. You forget, because youre so busy going from a to z, that theres 24 letters in between... You turn on... tune in... and you drop out...
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13. August 2007 @ 18:20 |
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Originally posted by anubis66:
hello, please help me.
i have a modable (according to the fuses) sapphire x800 gto agp card. i heard its possible to unlock the pipes and turn it into an x850 xt. how can i do this? anyone's help will be greatly appreciated.
Go here:
http://www.savefile.com/projects/733218
Just make sure yours is the R480 core not the R430:)
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13. August 2007 @ 18:31 |
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anubis66,
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i have a modable (according to the fuses) sapphire x800 gto agp card. i heard its possible to unlock the pipes and turn it into an x850 xt. how can i do this? anyone's help will be greatly appreciated.
It all depends on whether they are just turned off or if they have been crippled with a laser. I have an 800GTO and it came with 16 working pipes. If they are crippled, then nothing will turn them on. It's the luck of the draw. You can download ATi Tool and check it with that!
Clock On,
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13. August 2007 @ 19:31 |
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its an r480 for sure. atitool wont bios dump, why would this be?
But they all do sort of the same thing, and that is rearrange what you thought was real, and they remind you of the beauty of very simple things. You forget, because youre so busy going from a to z, that theres 24 letters in between... You turn on... tune in... and you drop out...
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13. August 2007 @ 20:20 |
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My best guess would be that the non-working pipes have been crippled to where you can't turn them on!
theone
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13. August 2007 @ 22:07 |
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@anubis66
It's only the GTO2's that are unlockable...the GTO's are crippled...
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13. August 2007 @ 22:13 |
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LP531.
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It's only the GTO2's that are unlockable...the GTO's are crippled...
Not all of them are. Mine's not! Says X800GTO right on the box on the label with the UPC scan code on it! Just lucky, I guess!
Clock On,
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13. August 2007 @ 22:52 |
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14. August 2007 @ 00:02 |
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LP531,
Mine is a Sapphire! These 2 parts made me laugh!
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No cards with defective pipelines have been found yet, which means (so far) the success rate is 100%.
I don't know where he's been looking but if he'd like a list, he should have checked Newegg's reviews on the AGP X800 GTOs. Less than half got more than 12 pipes that worked! It was the biggest single complaint!
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An AGP version of this card does not exist. Some shops list a Sapphire GTO² AGP but this is not a Sapphire product, it's probably regular GTO's which are labeled "wrong".
Totally wrong! Mine is an AGP and says Sapphire X800 GTO right on the board and the box it came in! LOL!! Even the board is Sapphire Blue! Great Vid card BTW! Did about 15,000 3DMarks in 3DMark 03. Not too shabby for an AGP!
Best Regards,
Russ
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14. August 2007 @ 01:20 |
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Originally posted by theonejrs:
LP531.
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It's only the GTO2's that are unlockable...the GTO's are crippled...
Not all of them are. Mine's not! Says X800GTO right on the box on the label with the UPC scan code on it! Just lucky, I guess!
Clock On,
theone :>}
Russ,I remember when you got that card.At the same time I had'nt had my poxy geforce 6600le for very long.At the time I did,nt know Jack S**T about video cards.Thought 256meg video card pci-e 16x had to be better than my old 4x agp geforce4 64 meg card.Well I was right,it is better,but for around the same price I could have got a card like yours!!Oh well,live and learn!!My 3D mark is around 6000 and that,s overclocked everything!!:-(
If the facts dont fit the theory, change the facts." -- Albert Einstein
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14. August 2007 @ 01:29 |
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Crowy,
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My 3D mark is around 6000 and that,s overclocked everything!!:-(
Is that with 3DMark 03? The X800 GTOs don't OC worth a flip! A real X800 GT overclocks like crazy. Mine was an 8x AGP. Still running good in the D-940 I passed on to my roomate! I bought it a couple of years ago to replace a woefully inadequate XFX 5200! LOL!!
Best Regards,
Russ
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14. August 2007 @ 01:43 |
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Russ,Quote:
Is that with 3DMark 03?
Yes,!!!ROFL!!!:-)
If the facts dont fit the theory, change the facts." -- Albert Einstein
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14. August 2007 @ 01:43 |
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I remember when you had the 5200, you put the logo for it in your signature, and then some know it all (probably me) told you it was nothing to be proud of! lol
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14. August 2007 @ 02:00 |
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Originally posted by sammorris:
I remember when you had the 5200, you put the logo for it in your signature, and then some know it all (probably me) told you it was nothing to be proud of! lol
Imagine the old days on AD.You could have one of these in your sig!!......................
ATI Mach32 ISA video card.
Along with a 486DX processor and 16meg of ram if you were rich!!!
If the facts dont fit the theory, change the facts." -- Albert Einstein
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14. August 2007 @ 02:05 |
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You must be young. I can still remember when computers were DOS only. Most of us had a Comodore 64 (the 64 was for 64kbs of mem) or an ATARI 800xl! There were no video cards! Just a little flash back...
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14. August 2007 @ 02:06 |
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hehe, it looks very complex, how do you think it'd fare up against integrated graphics these days? lol
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14. August 2007 @ 02:54 |
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rayals,
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You must be young. I can still remember when computers were DOS only. Most of us had a Comodore 64 (the 64 was for 64kbs of mem) or an ATARI 800xl! There were no video cards! Just a little flash back...
My first real computer was a Coleco Adam. It had a built in word processor that was built in on a rom chip. Came with a Daisey wheel printer and hooked up to a TV set. I very quickly modified it and bought a Sakata 100 monitor! It had a digital tape drive to load programs and it played all the Colecovision games through a game port. I still play them with an emulator program on my C2D. I have all the roms! I just wish I could find something as good today as the roller controller! (I love Centipede!) LOL!! I replaced that with an Atari 520ST. I even expanded it to include more memory, a 300 baud modem, A 30MB hard drive and a CD-Rom! Big Bucks! LOL!! Still works too! ROFL!!
As far as the Comodore 64 goes, I was never sure whether the 64 stood for 64kb of memory, or the number of minutes it took to load a game from tape. You could go out to dinner, walk the dog and hope when you got back that the screen wasn't flashing an error message and you had to start all over again! LOL!! You could also get what just had to be the slowest 5.25 disk drive ever invented if you were willing to spring for the $$$ for it! The only thing I ever saw that was slower was playing Burgertime on a TI 99a! Looked like it was wading in fudge! LOL!! Makes you grateful for what we have today!
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theone :>)
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14. August 2007 @ 03:31 |
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Again, I'm lost in awe at this simplicity. Rather than 64KB, my first computer had 131,072K, and came with Windows 98SE.
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