Weekend Open Forum: Do you overclock?

DXdiag:

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System Information
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Time of this report: 9/18/2010, 14:29:15
Machine name: JOANNE-PC
Operating System: Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit (6.1, Build 7600) (7600.win7_gdr.100618-1621)
Language: English (Regional Setting: English)
System Manufacturer: System manufacturer
System Model: System Product Name
BIOS: Phoenix - AwardBIOS v6.00PG
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4200+ (2 CPUs), ~2.2GHz
Memory: 3072MB RAM
Available OS Memory: 3072MB RAM
Page File: 2520MB used, 3621MB available
Windows Dir: C:\Windows
DirectX Version: DirectX 11
DX Setup Parameters: Not found
User DPI Setting: Using System DPI
System DPI Setting: 96 DPI (100 percent)
DWM DPI Scaling: Disabled
DxDiag Version: 6.01.7600.16385 64bit Unicode

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Display Devices
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Card name: ATI Radeon HD 4800 Series

Problem:

Hello guys. Sorry if im posting this in the wrong place but this site doesn't show you where you can post new posts. I've looked for ages aswell.

When i was using my much smaller harddrive (74.3gb)with the same components i am now, i could run graphics settings on the highest settings in game and get about 60fps but now, and seeing as my small harddrive is blown due to my brother so i can't revert back to it...I'm using this bigger harddrive as stated about in dxdiag. But with this one i get really low fps in games and its very jerky and i can't run games in high settings. A friend of mine thinks its might be to do with my cpu or my gfx fan but i really would like some more opinions on what the problem is and how to fix it. Advice would be greatly appreciated. x

Yes Overclock my Athlon II x3 2.9 to 3.6, DDR2 800 to 1066. and i go to this butget CPU to get the last juice of it jus as i did it... i have little overclock on my HD 4850, now im after a "Butget" SSD my las purchase for this year.

Sent my C2D E4500 from 2.2 Ghz to 2.64 Ghz with stock cooling.

I've been overclocking since the 386 days when you had to physically swap clock crystals. I remember getting a 25MHz 386 to run at 40MHz I moved on the 486's, Celerons, and the Athlons with similar results.

Today my dual core E8400 runs at 4GHz and is absolutely stable. Idle temperature is 41C and gets to about 50 under load.

i have amd dual core am3 550 black unlocked to quad core and over clocked from 3.1ghz to 4.25ghz on all four cores not bad on $99 cpu stable temp on stock with quad core enabled is 40c and after overclocking temp only 60c siting in a room that's 80f funny i have ati amd 4830 with overclocked as well if case temp drop below 40c it makes noise because it's to cool i have overclock the video card gpu to 650mhz from 575.
and memory from 450 to 1000 all running stable and video card max temp so far at full load is only been 70c playing battlefield bad company 2 for 4 hours.

I overclock because I can and because every bit of performance counts. And you need an aftermarket cooler for the epeen, so why not use it.

I have my Phenom II x3 @3.5GHz and I plan on OCing my GTX 480 from 700mhz to about 800MHz

I keep my video card overclocked significantly(around 100 mhz more on core clock and memory) my processor tend to keep towards stock but will mess with the multiplier from time to time for short periods.
cpu: phenom ii 940
video card: ATI sapphire 4830

I have been overclocking since I was 12 years old on my socket 754 Sempron 64 2800+ that I managed to get to 2800mhz killing MANY IDE HDD's. when i was 16 i bought an Asus M2N32-SLIDeluxe (590SLi) with an AMD athlon X2 4200+ that i could again, only get to 2600mhz. A year later i picked up the 5000+ BE with a Zalman 9700LED and got 3.5ghz on my ASUS M2N. This past year my M2N died, but i was lucky enough to put a Phenom II X3 720BE in it and I got 3.7ghz on it. My MOBO died in a power surge >.> Im sure i would still be overclocking on it now if it didn't die then.

I have also overclocked all of my videocards starting with a 256mb MX5200. It has been too long for me to remember any of the clock speeds, It wasn't something i did all the time since I didn't want to kill them like my HDD's. My next video card was a 128mb n6600. When i picked up my AM2 system i purchased a 256mb X1900XT. The only video card I can be certain of is my 8800GT SLI I bought in 07 IIRC. I managed a core/shader/memory clock of 900/1800/2000 from the stock 750/1750/1800. Needless to say, I owned crysis @ 1440X900 lol. I got about 50 FPS max settings with 4X AA. Anymore than that and it would drop to about 15-20.

I'm 20 years old now and have been overclocking for 8 years.

I sometimes bought for overclock. I bought that Celeron 300A, and the 700MHz Pentium 3 with the 100MHz bus, so it'll overclock easily. However, I found that in practice these systems didn't feel significantly faster when overclocked, and that when I had an application that was too slow for my need (typically after I owned the system for a while) the overclock didn't help make it really faster, while buying a new system did.

Couple that with the extra heat, higher chance of malfunction, the effort of tweaking, and it just didn't feel worth it. I still tried to see if I could get any overclock with my current CPU on stock cooling and settings (Phenom II 710; I couldn't). I also enjoy trying to overclock my graphics cards, but I usually run them at stock.

My current graphics card, a Radeon 5850 (which I won here) is underclocked to the minimum the control panel allows since I started folding. My system became very hot in the already sweltering summer heat, and the fan noise was annoying. Underclocking helped somewhat, and I don't feel any effect of the lower speed in the games I'm playing, so I keep it underclocked even when I turn folding off to play a game.

My MSI motherboard and OCZ memory are up to the task, but I never have actually overclocked since my performance is fine for what I do (gaming at 1280x1024).

I unlocked the 4th core and overclocked my Athlon II x3 440 from a stock 3.0GHz to a respectable 3.66 GHz. More than enough for my HTPC. In my gaming rig, I roll a Phenom II X6 1090T Black, and have found absolutely no reason to overclock it. With 8gb of DDR3 and dual Evga GTX 460 1gb SC EE in sli, the 1090T can handle anything that is thrown at it.

My first self built system, my current system, was built with a plan to overclock. Built in 3/2007. Is running stable at 3+ years.

CPU Intel Core 2 Duo E6400 Conroe 2.13GHz overclocked to 2.66GHz
MB GIGABYTE GA-965P-DS3 FSB overclocked from 266MHz to 333MHz
RAM DDR from overclocked from 400MHz to 415MHz

I had hoped to get the E6400 to 3GHz but could not run stable.

Video cards I've overclocked for a while. Usually just run the stand card at the overclocked rate that the premium cards run at.

NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GT from 600/1800 MHz to 675/1950 MHz

I recently bought a watercooler for my cpu and figured I might as well OC a little. I just used the asus builtin software to dynamically OC the chip when needed.
Must say I'm impressed with how easy and reliable it works and of course the best part is that when the cpu is idle it will go down to 1.something ghz and when needed jumps to 3.2ghz instantly
Core i5 750 btw.

Never tried OC'ing vid cards because they all tend to run so hot at stock speeds I'm to scared of frying the card. Currently have a gtx 285 and its like a oven when playing games, not to mention at stock its pretty much fast enough.

I run my Phenom II X3 at 2.86 GHz, up from 2.6, which is as high as I can get it at stock voltage. My video card is also overclocked to 750 core and 475 mem, up from 725 and 400 respectively, which equates to a 10-20% performance increase in most games.

Oh you cant be serious Wendig0, then why did you get a black edition processor? ....:wave:

I OC for customers mostly because I build machines for the "I want to play Crysis, but only have $600.00" crowd.
otherwise its somewhat of a sport when it comes to my personal machines, and I OC everything. I replaced the resistors in my daughters Hello Kitty toaster the other day...it will now burn a cats face through the bread in 3.47 seconds.....true story.:rolleyes:

Yes I do overclock. Got my AMD x4 955 to 4ghz stable with voltage set to 1.5v and it runs stable but for the most part I leave it at stock speeds for normal use.

I don't overclock my home built rig. The IBM 370/158 mainframe I owned years ago was not water cooled (the next model up--the 168--was), so why should this be? This rig is at least 10 times more powerful, and has 800 times more memory.

i not overclock, but underclock

Well, you asked for it. "Pressler" isn't a P-4, but rather a "Pentium D" dual core. They did have a "940" I think.