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The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!
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28. September 2007 @ 10:39 |
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sammorris,
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17dB, but because it's thermaltake, it's actually 26dB. You know better than to believe Thermaltake's ratings Russ!
Witness the Thunderblade! LOL!! Actually though, it's a lot quieter than 26dB. If I had to guess I would say about 21dB. It's very quiet! Light years quieter than the original!
Clock On,
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28. September 2007 @ 10:54 |
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if it were 21dB, it would be just about audible in a silent room from 1m away. Is it a 120mm or 140mm in yours?
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28. September 2007 @ 13:18 |
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sammorris,
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Is it a 120mm or 140mm in yours?
120! I bench tested it to be sure it worked before I installed it and you can't hear it from 2' away. It's extremely quiet. I'm sure if it ran hot enough that it would make much more noise as the fan is rated at 98.6 cfm at 2500 rpm! Even running OCCT for 12 hours (which I'll never do again!) didn't make the noise louder and I slept right next to it! Very quiet PS and a good re-design! The first TR-2 was very loud compared to this one!
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theone :>)
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28. September 2007 @ 13:30 |
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Hmm, interesting, and you say the lexan sheet was removed? Are any other of the electronics different? I'm contemplating doing it to my Toughpower...Changing to the thermalright cooler has stopped the PSU from ramping up anywhere near as much and now my CPU is dead silent, but it still ramps up a lot.
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28. September 2007 @ 19:15 |
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Looks like the black edition x2 5000 is showing some promise.
From 2.6 to 3.52ghz on air without vcore increase isn't to shabby!!Here
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28. September 2007 @ 21:20 |
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Crowy,
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Looks like the black edition x2 5000 is showing some promise.
From 2.6 to 3.52ghz on air without vcore increase isn't to shabby!
Yes, but how much work can it do. We all know that MHz means nothing. You can run a D-950 up to 4 MHz, but it won't beat the C2D in terms of work! The crappy benchmarks shown by Custom PC (PCMark05 instead of Sandra) of the x2 6400+ leave a lot to be desired compared to the C2Ds. It also runs hot!
Clock On,
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28. September 2007 @ 21:40 |
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Yeah well it wont be beating ANYTHING at 4 Mhz lol!
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crowy
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29. September 2007 @ 00:42 |
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Originally posted by abuzar1:
Yeah well it wont be beating ANYTHING at 4 Mhz lol!
Who makes 4 mhz processors in this day and age???ROFL!!!
Regards,Crowy
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29. September 2007 @ 02:52 |
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That's totally Russ!
ba-doom-tish!
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29. September 2007 @ 03:47 |
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Your mom's processor is 4 Mhz lol.
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29. September 2007 @ 04:58 |
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Now now, the 'ya mum' jokes are reserved for game lobbies.
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29. September 2007 @ 06:54 |
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sammorris,
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That's totally Russ!
No! It's just an honest question, although I mistakenly wrote MHz. You could have 5GHz and if the throughput sucked, what good is it? The standards have changed in the last year. If you remember a while back when AMD improved the stepping on some of their x2s, I said that they could do that with the whole line of CPUs. Now AMD is doing it, but it's not enough. The shame of it all is that AMD could have done it a long time ago. I honestly think they believed such a move would be enough to match or beat the competition. Problem is they woke up one morning and someone had stolen their Christmas pudding! LOL!!
If you also remember, I reported hearing about a 3 core AMD over a year and a half ago! They idea then was to have 2 cores managed by the third. I believed then and still do now, that that would have been the better direction to go. What better way to control 2 microprocessor cores than with another microprocessor core with the same capabilities and instruction set. It certainly would have shortened the pipelines! Nothing would have to be converted or translated. Just raw power controlling raw power! We'll just have to wait and see if the new 3 cores are better than what they originally planned!
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29. September 2007 @ 07:02 |
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I was only referring to the mis-typed character, nothing else. Your info is usually sound, I was just messing around!
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29. September 2007 @ 07:18 |
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Sam,
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I was only referring to the mis-typed character, nothing else.
I knew that, but I just was trying to make a point. No matter how fast you make a microprocessor, if it doesn't wind up being able to process data fast enough, then it's still slow! It's like when Intel was telling the world how fast their processors were by sheer clock speed. Now it's AMD doing the same thing! Intel, with the C2Ds have proven that to be false! Intel did it because they didn't have an answer for the 64x2s back then. Now it's up to AMD to find an answer for the C2Ds!
Clock On,
Russ :>)
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29. September 2007 @ 09:47 |
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Indeed. It seems so strange to own a CPU I ony paid £100 for and find that 8 months after I bought it it's still effectively 'top of the range'. Granted you can overclock slightly higher, but I have just chosen not to, and you can have a quad core, but I'm not sure even I'd see the difference.
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29. September 2007 @ 12:48 |
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Core 2's and especially these newer 6x50's) like and preffer 1:1 or 1:2 at a balence of highest FSB but at better timings of the cl4 range (ie: E6750 @ 533x7 @ 4-3-4-8 @ DDR1066). Changing to cl5 just to get DDR1250 didn't give moch in the way of R/W times. So to the guys who can't hit the higher FSB then DDR800 w/ 3-2-3-8 is best if at least to 400x.
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29. September 2007 @ 23:22 |
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hey im kinda new to overclocking. all i know is that it makes ur processor run faster than its suppose to right? can anybody like explain how overclocking works? how to do it, what happens, pros cons, and such? or link me somewhere that can tell me? thanks.
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30. September 2007 @ 03:19 |
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To be fair, all the answers are in this thread. You certainly don't need to read it all, but scan through the last 3 or 4 pages, I'm sure you'll get the gist. If you're still confused, then ask us.
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30. September 2007 @ 03:41 |
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He will learn about laserdiscs too lol,
dragnandy
its also worth posting the specs of your pc, as some motherboards do not have the options necessary, and we can also point out other limitations that you may have.
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30. September 2007 @ 22:10 |
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oh alright, should have thought of that fist.
i think my copmuter is IBM NetVista A22p, as i have never really taken it out or looked at it yet. and i have a Intel Pentium 4 socket 478 1.6ghz. yea its slow. i hope that answers the question on what my computer specs are.
i googled IBM 229221U, which is what i scanned my motherboard for. and my computer is right here. everything is the same pretty much but some parts are upgraded. not the processor though. yes i know this computers a little old
http://www.shopping.com/xPF-IBM-NetVista-A22p-2292-229221U
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1. October 2007 @ 05:22 |
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It's pre-built, and it's IBM. Overclocking doesn't exactly spring to mind with either of those statistics. To be honest, an old prebuild system like that probably won't have any options for overclocking. Even if it did, it'd have cheap memory, and low-budget motherboard, and a bog standard CPU cooler, which would all result in a very measly overclock (less than 10% I'd expect).
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1. October 2007 @ 06:06 |
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best thing you can do is see if you can pick up a faster cpu, and get your memory upto 1 gig, it would benefit you much more than trying to overclock the current specs.
mind you for what it would be worth it might just be worth saving some cash up for a newer system.
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1. October 2007 @ 06:10 |
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I'm thinking the latter. Systems that old are money pits if you try and upgrade them.
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1. October 2007 @ 06:28 |
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yes especialy with the way ddr prices are shooting up as its getting left in the stone age, still you have to miss the nice tight timings and low latencys.
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1. October 2007 @ 06:54 |
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True, but then the lowest you could get was CAS2 I think, and PC6400 CAS4 is the same as PC3200 CAS2 in terms of speed, so we haven't really lost anything.
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