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Where did you lean about overclocking? (Read 630 times)

Sep 1^st, 2008 at 2:34pm

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Right guys,

I'm wanting to get into the world of overclocking. Where did you guys learn it all? Obviously there its lots of "from experience" learning, but where did you start?

Websites? Books? Other people? Etc.

Thanks in advance

Tom

P.S. It's a Stock Q6600 with stock fan, on an MSI P6N SLI V2, with 2GB DDR2 800MHZ RAM and an Nvidia 8600GTS with 512MB DDR3 memory.

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Reply #1 - Sep 1^st, 2008 at 7:53pm

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http://www.hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?s=a2bc21439b1aa48fdb4ef452752b7e05&f=2

I spent ages reading all about it in forums, and only once i understood things, started to play about a bit, within limits as im still learning myself.

&&Q6600 (oc to 3.3ghz), P5KC, 4gb Corsair Dominator, Raptor 150gb, Seagate 500gb, XFX 8800GT

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Reply #2 - Sep 14^th, 2008 at 2:35pm

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I just started overclocking my e8400. running it at 4Ghz now (and this is also on the first full computer i've built). Everything I've learned has been from forums, looking over and cross-referencing peoples posts, and finding those who seem to know a little more about the subject ( Wink

NickN)

the forum I use most for that sort of info was slizone and when i did get around to the 4Ghz overclock (2 days ago) i found it relatively simple, although i did not mess with the ram at all.

CM690&&Intel e8400 @3.937Ghz&&2GB Patriot PC2-6400 DDR2-800Mhz @ 875Mhz 5-5-5-16&&250GB 7200RPM SATA Hard Drive + Seagate 640GB&&Windows XP Media Center -32bit&&eVGA 8800GT 512MB&&Antec Truepower Trio 650W&&LG W2252TQ 22" LCD

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Reply #3 - Sep 14^th, 2008 at 5:50pm

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I read and studied tutorials and then went to it on my system. I made sure I bought good strong parts that were purpose built for overclocking (motherboard especially). And since FSX is such a pig you can usually find overclocking advice (be careful there) on avaition simulation forums. It won't take you long to learn the basics but the experience will take time, just like I'm learning all the time. I've been fortunate enough so far not to melt my HW.

At this point in time (until the old geezer can't do it no more Cheesy

) I would look for anything Nick N. has to say on the subject. Any other advice you get better be in line with his or you could be in for problems and headaches.

-Jim

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Mushkin Redline DDR3 1600
XP x64 SP2
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