Simviation Forum - Basic How to overclock

Jun 7^th, 2006 at 5:42pm

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Okay, so I just did a basic how to overclock your computer here.

DISCLAMER: If you follow this tutorial, and screw up your computer its your own dang fault. I'm not responsable for your mistake.

Anyway heres a screenie of my end result, and current clock

And the video is here.

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Cameron

« Last Edit: Jun 7^th, 2006 at 9:13pm by ctjoyce »

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Reply #1 - Jun 9^th, 2006 at 4:32am

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Nice.

My stupid Dell can't overclock :S I might buy a new mobo (Just put my P4 650 in it), then wait a few months for Conroes price to drop.

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Reply #2 - Jun 9^th, 2006 at 6:41am

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Your also going to have to buy a new copy of XP if you do that. Dell has a codec on their motherboards, so you can only use the XP that they include with a dell motherboard. Kinda sucks

However just to let you know, unless I'm benching, or looking at my FPS I never really notice the overclock. Well no I lied, when I'm encoding video I do, but other than that you just don't notice it. But its fun to brag.

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Reply #3 - Jun 9^th, 2006 at 7:17am

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Your also going to have to buy a new copy of XP if you do that. Dell has a codec on their motherboards, so you can only use the XP that they include with a dell motherboard. Kinda sucks

However just to let you know, unless I'm benching, or looking at my FPS I never really notice the overclock. Well no I lied, when I'm encoding video I do, but other than that you just don't notice it. But its fun to brag.

Cheers
Cameron

Whats next? Dell making there own Pentium 4s which only work with 100% other Dell components? Jeez....

So I have to get a WHOLE new mobo if I want Vista?

Thanks

P.S What is your PCmark score? (if you have one)

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Reply #4 - Jun 9^th, 2006 at 11:02am

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Somewhere in the 6K range. Before the RAM upgrade I got 5872 with the 3.91Ghz clock. But with the new RAM I should be in the 6K range. The one thing that is really holding me back from something like 7K is a sual core processer.

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Whats next? Dell making there own Pentium 4s which only work with 100% other Dell components? Jeez....

They arn't branding P4s yet, however they do have Dell brand ATi and nVidia cards. If I remember right they are ASUS cards just relabled.

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So I have to get a WHOLE new mobo if I want Vista?

Well we all will if MS sticks to this whole thing where your going to need the codec on the hardware for Vista to recognise it. But I strongly doubt that this will ever work. If they setup vista to do this, no one will update, because its just going to cost too much.

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Reply #5 - Jun 10^th, 2006 at 12:10am

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Jeez... Nice score! I got 5000 with P4 650, 2gb and
X850XTPE

I just checked the Dell webside, and they say most of there computers can run Vista. So I guess mine can.

Also, if the requirements for Vista are 800mhz, I also doubt that Microsoft will do the motherboard need codec thing

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Reply #6 - Jun 10^th, 2006 at 10:23am

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Reply #7 - Jun 10^th, 2006 at 11:16am

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LOL! Nice one.

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Reply #8 - Jun 10^th, 2006 at 3:14pm

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Reply #9 - Jun 10^th, 2006 at 4:58pm

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My veiw is that if you have to ask how to overclock you shoulden't be doing it. I personaly did my first overclock when I found that I accidenly put a jumper on the wrong pins and found my dx66 was running faster than it should be yet was stable.

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Reply #10 - Jun 10^th, 2006 at 10:52pm

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My view on it is that everyone should atleast know the basics. With the video they get a good idea of what they would need to do, and there is less of a chance that they screw something up now.

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Reply #11 - Jun 20^th, 2006 at 2:27pm

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I can only overclock 200Mhz this way or that...... Only through certain programs that run in windows, Now if I could unlock my Bios Controls on it..... Then I could, but that isnt possible I dont think, Cheers, Gunny

EDIT: I think I went as high as 400Mhz and that was stock cooling over a year ago..... Yes I am crazy... My view is, if you want to overclock go for it, if you fry it and blame other people, you should kick yourself, because its your own fault..... I didnt fry anything (Not that I know of) but I was told to not do it, but I did it because I was mad at the computer..... I wanted it to do something strange...... but it didnt! Bah....

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Reply #12 - Jul 3^rd, 2006 at 2:23pm

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Your also going to have to buy a new copy of XP if you do that. Dell has a codec on their motherboards, so you can only use the XP that they include with a dell motherboard. Kinda sucks

I'm not sure whether that is true ... I have a Dell 8300 (assembled in Dublin) and installed a fresh copy of Windows XP Pro on it without any trouble. Could it have anything to do with the fact that it's a Volume Licensing version of Windows XP?

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Reply #13 - Jul 4^th, 2006 at 1:01am

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Let me rephrase that a bit. The OS disk included on a Dell can only be used on a Dell motherboard. However you can use a regular copy of XP just fine.

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