Couple of others....

www.custompc.co.uk is one I always used to visit.

If you get really into modding, www.bit-tech.net is pretty good.

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http://www.hardforum.com/forumdisplay.php?f=2
http://forums.pcapex.com/

can u recommend any?

go to any of the decent sized custom built PC forums and they'll usually have an OC forum with plenty of tips and tutorials as sticky threads.

erm.... okay :o i don't even know wot u guys are going on about. looks like i'm gonna have to do some reading :look:

Yeh, obviously, but its not hard to do basic overclocking, thats all I was covering.

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Originally posted by aPk
The options are just bus speed and multiplier.

So if you have a bus of 300 and multiplier of 12, you have a total clock of 3600.

You can either change the bus up to, say, 310 so you get a clock of 3720, or down the bus to 295 but change the multiplier to 13 for a clock of 3835.

But remember more clock means more heat, and TBH you won't notice the difference unless pushing the system to its limits which doesn't really happen nowadays.

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I used to do it quite heavily on my old XP2600 Mobile Chip, and the differences were massive as far as benchmarking software such as 3DMark were concerned.

I ended up spending so much money on my PC to squeeze out a few more 3DMarks, to the point I rarely played games on it anymore :lol: so stopped

The options are just bus speed and multiplier.

So if you have a bus of 300 and multiplier of 12, you have a total clock of 3600.

You can either change the bus up to, say, 310 so you get a clock of 3720, or down the bus to 295 but change the multiplier to 13 for a clock of 3835.

But remember more clock means more heat, and TBH you won't notice the difference unless pushing the system to its limits which doesn't really happen nowadays.

Wish I knew how to do it properly. I have the Asus software which came with my A8N MoBo, but it's a load of crap. To do it properly I guess I need to learn what all the stuff is in the BIOS.

lol, yout not going to notice much different using applications like word for example, more intensive stuff, like gaming, video editing, photoshop, will definatly show a positive result, especially if you have no bottle necks like slow / low free space hard drives, at least 2 gigs of ram and a graphics card which isnt bogged down.

if your sad and crunch (like me) oc'ing makes a huge difference

i overclocked m pc by half a gig, and noticed not difference, the only time you will really notice anything imo, is if you start running benchmark stuff

i have a 2.0ghz 146 opteron at 2.9ghz, and the extra gig (almost) really makes a difference

the q6600 quad core (g0 stepping) oc's like a monster, they run cool too, like mid 50's under full load at 3.0ghz. couple of them on water upto 3.6ghz. an extra 1.2ghz, nobody can say that that is unnoticable

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Originally posted by Steve
overclocking os overrated imo, iv dabbled with it andnever really found it made much difference, then stuff gets too hot and things begin to crash, no doubt you could stop that with some fancy cooling but imo its not worth it

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overclocking os overrated imo, iv dabbled with it andnever really found it made much difference, then stuff gets too hot and things begin to crash, no doubt you could stop that with some fancy cooling but imo its not worth it

2.4 quad core running at 3ghz at the moment, disadvantages? Erm. providing you're doing it right there are none, you just have to be able to deal with the heat

is anyone over clocking thier CPU? Want to know how its done, and what the major disadvantages are?