Comments on: Overclocking: A matter of skill ?

By: DIY – overclock your computer – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks

DIY – overclock your computer – The Blogs at HowStuffWorks — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 21:57:40 +0000

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By: Guru Zeb

Guru Zeb — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 22:39:09 +0000

Not sure exactly what the writers point is with this article. Seems particularly pointless in both tone and content.
Whining about the lost days of unreliable hard to overclock systems (which being 44 i remember all too well)
I particularly don't like this idea of overclocking being "too easy" now, what an absurd idea only fit to be trolled out by a clueless leet kiddy (which the writer is too old to qualify for)
What does the writer want? to go back to a scene where most people where excluded by cost, knowledge and confidence, leaving himself and his friends as part of the anointed leet .... GROW UP m8.
The process never was hard you just needed more commitment and kit to do it properly.
Overclocking has never been a matter of SKILL, unless your a 14 year old who uses leet speak all the time.
The process of overclocking is much more akin to low level science project. From a base of some relevant knowledge (which is easily found online these days) you set out and systematically overclock your system, until you reach a balance between overclocking and stability. END OF !!! No magic leet Mad Skillz involved, just some forethought.
The truth is you spend a lot more time pissing around fiddling with everything to try get and extra 50mhz when you 1st start overclocking, once you've been at it a few years, then you come to realize that once you reach a main point of instability from setting FSB and vcore its only worth messing with a few other settings for awhile before you call it a day.

By: hehe

hehe — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 21:16:20 +0000

opps, i meant 33-39C and 43C lol, not that good at typing lol

By: hehe

hehe — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:58:36 +0000

i used a CoolIT Domino ALC Water Cooling Kit, pretty good for around 60 squid,
and seing as it was my first build i was glad that it was simple to set up
it usually idles around 43-49C and at capacity for a looong time it goes up to about 53C, so im pretty happy

By: Devin

Devin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 19:17:44 +0000

I know. Thats a damn good overclock though. What cooling did you use?

By: hehe

hehe — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 06:40:55 +0000

yes well you know what i meant
i was just a bit exited about my succseesful first overclock

By: Devin

Devin — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 04:21:10 +0000

Thats funny because the last time I counted, the i7 920 had 8 THREADS not CORES.

By: hehe

hehe — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 16:10:47 +0000

hmmm, i recently got an i7 920, and it was pretty fast at 2.66 with eight cores, and then i decidded to ramp it up to 4GHz
4GHz X 8 =32GHz TOTAL !!!
yay
and plus its super stable with no hiccups
(yet)

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EP45-UD3P w. E5200 OC - TweakTown Forums — Fri, 15 May 2009 00:50:42 +0000

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By: charles849

charles849 — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 03:18:58 +0000

Eh and the purpose of this is ???