[FlapJack23]

I overclocked my cpu which is a pentium 4 celeron that origanly had 3.2 GHZ to 4.6 GHZ

Does any one else have an overclocked cpu?

[Tricky]

3.2 GHZ to 4.6 GHZ

How'd you pull that off without burning it? I watched a video where people threw up an old AMD, I believe, to 5.2 GHz and had to use nitroglycerin to cool it.

[Grimm]

how do u overclock a pc? flap u know so mucnh more than me about this stuff, u have to come over and help me with this dual boot crap

[FlapJack23]

it doesnt get that hot actually, its around 86 F which isnt that hot

[Chantelle]

how do u overclock a pc? flap u know so mucnh more than me about this stuff, u have to come over and help me with this dual boot crap

OC is farily straight forward as long as you know what your doing, personally I wouldnt say anyone to just do it, its not just your CPU that you have to cnsider, your RAM also as that works in time with the CPU.. O/Cs sometimes put in faster ram to accomodate that and also more expensive stuff. PLus sometimes you need to implement better cooling system to prevent melt down.. so it might be a better idea to consider that before you just whack up your FSB.

I did my last machine.. But never really sawmuch difference

I just upped the FSB I think since IIRC my multiplier was locked on that processor..

Although I seen someon up their FSB once from 133 (266) to 150 (300) and well the bios went ape, i had to adjust the jumpers to manually downclock it to 100 so i could reset the BIOS..

Grimm the actual process of oc is or are simple steps but id hate for you to just go ahead and cause damage.

Incidentally I think Melissa left quite some ansewr on youe dual boot situation.

[Tricky]

You also have to consider voltages, which is primarily a RAM issue as well. I have my processor upped from 2.0 to 2.2, but that's it. It's more for preference than actual effect on performance. To be honest, unless you do a major change to almost all parts of your hardware, you won't notice much, if anything. Also, OCing will 90% of the time cause system instability. There's also the chance that you'll ruin part of your computer, or severely lower its life expectancy. As a person who has ordered majority of his parts off the internet, I'm not keen on voiding my warranties for a small change in frame rate or processing power. My suggestion, don't do it.

[Chantelle]

yeah I never do it anymore myself

besides if it was for gaming performance Id look into GPU OCing, thats what really makes the difference

processor clock cycles your not going to see alot of, unless your say video encoding which is heavily CPU .

another thing you bring up a good point about teh voltages, as it also strains your PSU. Alot of turbo OC'ers tend to get expensive PSUs, modds fans for their GPU and expensive water cooling systems in place and higher ram requencies to accomodate the speed increase.

But for what its worth personally and thats me I dont tend to bother with it much.

Incidentally tricky what did you do? just tweak the FSB?

[Tricky]

My BIOS has built in software that automatically adjusts most of the settings to a safe range, so I let it do itself. On my old processor, however, I had to tweak the FSB, which in turn meant adjusting the RAM in order to get it to not BSOD every 30 minutes. I might as well say that my GPU is also OCed, for what it's worth. Although, most cards come downclocked slightly, as mine did, and I felt the need to raise the bar a bit.

[FlapJack23]

i cant overclock through the bios, mainly because i have an emachines, damn emachines. basically i have a program, that even if i crank it up to 11 ghz, it'll max out at 4.7.

[Chantelle]

yeah is it one with no jumper pins or system so its propiety.. I thought though that software overclocking wasnt always that accurate and often didnt work very well despite it saying so.

[FlapJack23]

it works decently, I can see a noticable difference in load times, and when I come out of games it seems faster. Also, I need to do it when I boot every time, it doesn't stay after I reboot.

[Chantelle]

oh sorry I didnt mean that it didnt work I just meant that some software ones dont always work right or are lesser accurate so to speak.

At least it works somewhat with you anyway if you notice it, best way would be to run some bench tests which measure CPU individually like pcmark and 3dmark.. Loads times are a bit ambiguous since it relies on hard drives which are unfortunateley a bottle neck in the speed of things.

So potentially your CPU could be going faster than you feel it is.