How much do you overclock?

[sash1]

Heh. I think overclocking is the best thing about buying computers. Here's what I've done:

1st system:

Celeron II 550. Overclocked to 1.1. Burned the motherboard twice (it was an ABit.. I forget which model), and burned out the case as well. Cost to replace: approx. $150.

2nd system:

Tbird 1Ghz and Kyro II: Tbird overclocked to 1.9... burned, and so did the peripherals.. Replaced mobo and processor and the sound/ethernet card, overclocked to 1.8, fan popped off and it burned. Cost: about $180

3rd system:

Duron 950, overclocked to 1.6, and on a hot summer day: burned. Cost: $30

4th (and current) system:

Duron 1.1 @ 1.7, running stable.
Kyro II modded and overclocked to 230/230. Benches close to GF3Ti200.

Yeh, I've lost a lot of money. But overclocking is fun. So how much do you guys OC your systems?

 

[oldfart]

Overclocked systems that I have had:

P166 @ 188
P233 @ 262
PII 333 @ 412
C300A @ 450
PIII 550 @ 733
PIII 700 @ 933
PIII 1G @ 1125
Tualatin 1.0A @ 1.4
PIII-S 1.26 @ 1.5
Celeron 1G @ 1120
P4 1.6A @ 2.4

None of them ever "burned" or had any sort of problem.

 

[apoppin]

From the looks of your "history", you need to spend a lot more time here in O/C'ing.



Most of your overclocks were extreme and rather foolish (the proof is in your burning out hardware) and you seem rather proud of it.

I am an O/C'er - just not extreme enough to push my hardware way beyond what it can safetly go. My current system uses a 1.2Ghz Tualatin Celeron O/C'd 25% to 1.5Ghz at default voltage. It WILL do 1.6Ghz but only with extreme overvolting. The extra 8% performance increase is not worth the extra 20+% voltage increase needed for absolute stability (IMO).

 

[zsouthboy]

Wait..... you had a tbird running at 1.9ghz? :Q

Current sys:
1600+ AGOIA Y, wk13@ 1.74ghz(12.5x139), default voltage

Before that:
Tbird 1.2 @ 1.4, i forget which stepping

Even more ancient:
Pentium 200MMX@250, man, this system was 1337 back in the day(with my voodoo3 LOL)

 

[BeaverTooth]

I never got into overclocking too much before. The only real OC'ing I've done is run my old Pentium 133 on a 83MHz FSB so it ran as a 166, though with the bus increase it benched as about a 200MHz. My next system I was limited by the mobo to a max of 75MHz FSB so I could only OC my Celeron to 466MHz. I never had any problems of any sort with my (limited) OC's. Now I am planning something abit more grand. I want to take a T-bred XP1700+ and pair it with an nForce2 mobo (most likely the Asus A7N8X Deluxe) so that it is unlocked, and run it on a 166MHz FSB at a 12.5 multiplier to get 2.083GHz. I have seen that some people have been able to reach 2GHz with the T-bred "A" core and GOOD air cooling, and that would be the exact same speed that the XP2600+ (333MHz FSB version) runs at. PR wise it would be a 900MHz OC, which has got to be a great achivement for AMD proc's, though MHz wise it would only be over a 500MHz OC. I don't think there should be any real difference heat wise for running the CPU at 2.083GHz as opposed to a straight 2GHz, so it should be do able. When I succeed or fail I will let you know.

 

[pillage2001]

Overclock everything. Lazy to state it here. But my latest overclock. Check my sig.

 

[Mikki]

 

[pillage2001]

Originally posted by: Mikki

lol. biatch.....you editted your post.

 

[jdurg]

I haven't done much overclocking at all. That's mostly because the only computers I've owned before my current one were pre-built systems where overclocking was impossible. My first overclock was when I built my computer in the spring and used a 1.8A Pentium 4 CPU. I overclocked the 1.8A to 2.52 GHz, although I think it could have gone higher. (For some reason, my overclocks don't pass the Prime95 stability test when the front side bus goes above 140 MHz. I think my piece of crap MSI 845 Ultra-ARU motherboard is holding me back. Though it could be my RAM.) I recently sold my 1.8A and picked up a 2.8 GHz P4 because the noise from the heatsink/fan needed to cool off my 1.8A@2.52 was driving me absolutely insane. I now have a 2.8 GHz P4 running at 2.96 GHz using the stock Intel heatsink/fan and default voltage. The CPU could probably go higher, but either my RAM or my motherboard is holding me back.

 

[LED]

AunixP35
Not to slander you or flame your thread but I OC to save $$'s to get better performance, not to throw them away, so I read up on steppings and Hardware B4 my purchase
Ex:
1GHz @ 1.4 (AXIA) (AYOG), 1600XP+@2000XP+ , 2400XP @ 2700XP+