What can i overclock to?

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Alright i have a AMD athlon 64 3000+ processor that i want to over clock, it runs at 2.0 ghz right now, how much do you think i can bump it up before it dies? :rolleyes:
 
Just turn it up until it crashes, and back off some. No biggie, won't hurt anything. Probably.

10-25% easy, I'd guess. After that, it gets trickier.
 
it depends on your cooling, it'll probably only go up very little with a regular standard cpu fan. Not much to notice any differences really... It'll just make your system run a whole lot more unstable. I would guess to like 2.17 max before your system doesn't boot up and you have to jump your bios to clear it.... I know my old 64 3200+ with a big ass thermaltake fan on it, went to 2.2 before shutting off.
 
ermghoti said:
Just turn it up until it crashes, and back off some. No biggie, won't hurt anything. Probably.

10-25% easy, I'd guess. After that, it gets trickier.
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yeah, well i might want to add, my computer gets hot really easy, so i dont know?
 
Mindset said:
it depends on your cooling, it'll probably only go up very little with a regular standard cpu fan. Not much to notice any differences really... It'll just make your system run a whole lot more unstable. I would guess to like 2.17 max before your system doesn't boot up and you have to jump your bios to clear it.... I know my old 64 3200+ with a big ass thermaltake fan on it, went to 2.2 before shutting off.
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and .2 isnt very much improvment is it?
 
nope not really. If you put liquid cooling in your system, you'll probably can get it up there near the 3.0 mark or maybe higher :D
 
Mindset said:
nope not really. If you put liquid cooling in your system, you'll probably can get it up there near the 3.0 mark or maybe higher :D
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hehe sorry, dont think so!

But for the price of a liquid cooling system i could buy a new motherboard and buy a dual core 3.0 ghz processor and still would have saved money?
 
not really, a Thermaltake Bigwater CPU cooling system is only $125. and I know there's others out there that are around the same price, or a tad bit lower. I never tried liquid cooling, only because I'm too scared that a drop of water might hit my motherboard, and fry EVERYTHING from video to sound to processor.... maybe I will whenever I get my new system built.
 
Mindset said:
not really, a Thermaltake Bigwater CPU cooling system is only $125. and I know there's others out there that are around the same price, or a tad bit lower. I never tried liquid cooling, only because I'm too scared that a drop of water might hit my motherboard, and fry EVERYTHING from video to sound to processor.... maybe I will whenever I get my new system built.
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yeah i dont think ima go that far. I am gonna make a new computer one of these days cause right now i have

Compaq presario v2000
amd turion 64
1.66 ghz
384 ram

and a desktop
AMD athlon 64 3000+
2.0 ghz
512 ram

and the laptop is 6 months old and the desktop is over a year, so i think i may upgrade after i get some new condensers
 
You guys doing OC'ing do realize you're just kicking yourself in the crotch by driving your system beyond its specs.. not only does it make audio apps much more likely to crash, it'll cut the life of your CPU and possibly other components to a fraction of what they were... so why do it? you're not a hardcore gamer are you?
 
Mistral said:
You guys doing OC'ing do realize you're just kicking yourself in the crotch by driving your system beyond its specs.. not only does it make audio apps much more likely to crash, it'll cut the life of your CPU and possibly other components to a fraction of what they were... so why do it? you're not a hardcore gamer are you?
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no, but 2.0 ghz isnt to fast bro
 
Mistral said:
You guys doing OC'ing do realize you're just kicking yourself in the crotch by driving your system beyond its specs.. not only does it make audio apps much more likely to crash, it'll cut the life of your CPU and possibly other components to a fraction of what they were... so why do it? you're not a hardcore gamer are you?
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No one said that we were going to overclock, I don't even do it myself. I was just stating that it would be unnecessary to overclock his chip when he'll only be gaining 200mhz (which isn't much) and that the one way to overclock high is to get liquid cooling, and he said it would cost more then a motherboard & processor, and I was just saying that there's cooling available for under $200. I already know that its bad for the CPU, i also said that too :D maybe you misunderstood us. For me, I just go out and buy a bigger and badder motherboard/processor/components to make it faster.
 
Mindset said:
No one said that we were going to overclock, I don't even do it myself. I was just stating that it would be unnecessary to overclock his chip when he'll only be gaining 200mhz (which isn't much) and that the one way to overclock high is to get liquid cooling, and he said it would cost more then a motherboard & processor, and I was just saying that there's cooling available for under $200. I already know that its bad for the CPU, i also said that too :D maybe you misunderstood us. For me, I just go out and buy a bigger and badder motherboard/processor/components to make it faster.
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so what area of texas are you from, what part of dallas, my bro lives up there
 
The original poster was obviously planning to overclock - that's what the thread topic says.. I have an AMD 64 3200+.. not much different than Joey's.. but it's fast enough for me. Anything I have thrown at this system so far has run just fine. As it has been said, with stock cooling you're not going to be able to get much more out of it. As it stands my CPU runs anywhere between 48-54 celsius right now using arctic silver.. when I run games sometimes it overheats and my whole system freezes. That's rare but it goes to show you that even with stock specs computers aren't the most stable things on the block.. it's not something to be toyed with unless you have money up the yin-yang.. even if I did I'd probably just buy a faster CPU..
 
Mistral said:
The original poster was obviously planning to overclock - that's what the thread topic says.. I have an AMD 64 3200+.. not much different than Joey's.. but it's fast enough for me. Anything I have thrown at this system so far has run just fine. As it has been said, with stock cooling you're not going to be able to get much more out of it. As it stands my CPU runs anywhere between 48-54 celsius right now using arctic silver.. when I run games sometimes it overheats and my whole system freezes. That's rare but it goes to show you that even with stock specs computers aren't the most stable things on the block.. it's not something to be toyed with unless you have money up the yin-yang.. even if I did I'd probably just buy a faster CPU..
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good point, my amd 3000+ is getting kinda old in my eyes and does get jammed up quite a bit, so, was thinking it was to slow?
 
Overclocking is a neat idea, but it can be bad for stability. We have actually underclocked some analysis systems for stability and temperature ( but mostly just to geek out - I bet it doesn't really do anything).

I will tell you that I hate to do anything that I even expect would create the likelyhood of it freezing up when I was in the throws of a creative frenzy.

Underclocking:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=1798
 
cephus said:
I will tell you that I hate to do anything that I even expect would create the likelyhood of it freezing up when I was in the throws of a creative frenzy.
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Exactly, dude..
 
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