your mother on 29 June 2007
| superchunk said: Why would you risk buring up your cpu to get a slight improvement? I did that when I first got my pc about 4 years ago. Yes, I know it is time to get a new one. It is a barton 2500 @1.8ghz can oc to 2.5. I did this and benchmarked it. I never really saw in reason to put the extra stress on the chip. Just pay the extra money and get the faster chip in the first place. I mean you're already spending a lot on gaming computer as it is. It would be what $100 for the cpu that is already at the speed your overclocking to. Then you have a machine that runs cooler and don't have to stress about over heating and extra fans and such. Meh. Guess I just not hardcore gamer enough. |
I have overclocked on virtually all my PCs since 1999, and none have caused me any problems. Normally I don't go too high as I appreciate quiet, but the setup I have now lets me OC my C2D to roughly 30% (admittedly, not very high OC) and the temperatures remain only 1-2 degrees higher than stock, so why not?
The CPU under stress (read: Marathon S.T.A.L.K.E.R. session) is less than 40 degrees C and normally doesn't pass 38 degrees, and this is using one 120mm fan in the front, a matching one in the rear, Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 for the heatsink/fan combo and a 92mm side fan. Very quiet - it's audible, but it's a pleasantly low hum and I can definitely live with that!
