Your highest overclock

[Wlck742]

What was the highest overclock you ever got from your CPU? List your CPU model, the factory clock speed, and the overclocked speed as well as the percentage and how stable it was. For example here's my OC:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
Factory clock speed: 1.82 GHz
Max overclocked speed: 3.79 GHz (unstable)
Stable overclocked speed: 3.47 GHz (but still running at 3.04 GHz anyways just to be safe)
Percentage of increase: Max overclock - 101%; Stable overclock - 67%

[Hunter]

I am not overclocking my cpu, since I am happy with the current 3.4 GHZ, and I don't want to spoil it, it is not a cheap thing :)

[Wlck742]

What's your CPU?

[kuvasz]

I could do with a bit of overclocking since my AMD Sempron operates at 1.93GHz but I really don't want to fry it and then spend money on a new one. But it'd be fun to see how much this could do, although I've heard that the Sempron model is not meant for this type of thing (OC and gaming).

[Hunter]

Mine is an Intel pentium 3.4 GhZ, I don't know what else I would have to say about it.

[Wlck742]

@kuvasz: You're right. Sempron models are just for typical use like surfing the web and stuff. AMD's usually not my choice. I've had bad experiences with their chips.

In my experience the Core 2 Duo E4300 is one of the best OC'ers. With good cooling you could prolly OC that to more than a 100% performance increase with stability. If you're looking for a cheap CPU I seriously recommend that one, especially if you'll overclock.

[furrer]

Im not going to overclock mine either, i think i dont have enought cooling...

[Wlck742]

I overclocked entirely on stock cooling myself.

[BirdofPrey]

I have crap memory so overclocking wouldn't even be that effective because the memory would still hold perfomance back

[Hunter]

How many rams u have? yeah, it holds back, but if you've got cooling (and ambition to overclock) you can still make it a bit faster..

[BirdofPrey]

1GB. I like to have music playing in the background while playing games and when you use a full screen application what is on the desktop is taken out of the vidoe Ram and put in the main memory and since I don't have that much in the way of workable space it it gets bogged down if I have to aalt tab to change songs. its fine if I am at the main menu but in a battle hitting alt+tab causes me to lose 5 minutes of my time

[Hunter]

Hey BoP that is not a little memory, you can be happy with it... Well actually I was.
Try this: go to control panel> system properties>special>Performance settings>then special again>Virtual memory settings, and you can add some to the virtual memory by modifying the size of the ram. Currently I use the minimum 2046 and the maximum 4096.
I used this setting with the 1 GB Ram computer too, and I didn't have any problems.

An other thing could be that you have many plugins, unused programs installed. If you do, the best is to make a full data save, and format your winchester, cause than it may isn't the rams fault.

[BirdofPrey]

I am running Vista BTW and usually streaming music in IE or listening to music stored on my PC sso there are other programs on my PC. Also I have change virtual memory before but it hasn't helped probably because my hard drive has a low seeks speed. Its a few years old.

The games run fine its just alt+tabbing that causes the problems and as I have explained beofre that is because your desktop images are stored in either main or virtual memory in a full screen program which takes some time to access. I have 512MB of memory on my card so there is a lot of stuff to move

[Hunter]

ooh I've got your problem than.. Well Vista uses the big part of the ram any time, but if the games work, that won't be a big problem.. (especially if SC2 will work)

[BirdofPrey]

Yeah Games work just fine. Its when I exit the game that I have problems

[-LT-]

My CPU is already 3.0 GHz without overclocking. That's enough for me. :good:

[Ursawarrior]

i have 7.8 ghz, but 198 ram
will bigger ram prevent my pc from slowing down or lagging?

[-LT-]

Yes, it will.

[LordKerwyn]

Ok am I the only one who sees something wrong with 7.8 Ghz processor with only 198 MB RAM?

[Hunter]

Well it is kinda unusual... Ursawarrior how could you have this kind of setting? 7.8? Is it a duo-core?

[BirdofPrey]

They don't make 7.8 Ghz chips

[Hunter]

Doesn't duo core means that it has twice the power of the marked performance? So a 3.4 duo core has the performance of 6.8? (I don't really now about this, but yes the 7.8 still sounds weird, maybe it was a typo..)

[BirdofPrey]

Not necessarilly. You generally can't utalize the auxilarry cores as fully as the first one so that performance increase s only a theorectical one. For adverising purposes Intel adds the clockspeed of each of the cores together because most people aren't educated to what all the terms mean and the higher number looks good to these people.

[Hunter]

I think I belong to this group either... Well I am happy with a simple cpu I don't need duo core.

[Ursawarrior]

ooopsies, sorry about the 7.8 thinngy, i was referring to the comp in my mothers office XD
i only have 2.01ghz

and yes, maybe they do make 7.8 chipz, im not sure either but when i checked the specs in my mothers office i saw 7.8...... upgrades or two or more chipz???? ......

[BirdofPrey]

As I have stated there are no comercial chips with that clockspeed. it is a marketing gimik. The chip (if its a dual core) actually has an internal clockspeed of 3.9 GHz for each core. While that is a decent number, to the uninformed, 7.8GHz looks alot better.

[Wlck742]

That is, unless your mom's a radiologist or something and she has some super kickass computer that costs five million dollars.

[Ursawarrior]

lolz, is 2.01okay? and if i were to buy more rams, is it easy to install?

[BirdofPrey]

You can do it as long as you have a screwdriver (some caes don't even need that)

[Hunter]

Only to remove the computers cover.. The ram can easily be clicked to it's spot. just check if there is free room for it. (Btw one of my friends could put in the ram with the wrong side... No comment)

[furrer]

Remember that the motherboard should be compatible. LOL at the friend...

[Hunter]

I lolled too. He told that it did fit... Well it did fit so much that he had to buy a new motherboard. I suggested him not to touch the cpu again.

[furrer]

That why i dont build computers myself, i know it all on paper, but i suck in practice.

[Hunter]

You just need a really old one, to practice. Maybe there is one you used earlier. :) Pretty good practice

[Ursawarrior]

ummm guys, how can i identify my motherboard? so ill know what to buy when i buy more ram

[Hunter]

first sollution is to open up the cpu house usually it is written on it with huge letters, or check if you have the box of the motherboard.
Or: http://en.utilidades-utiles.com/download-everest.html
Download this (everest trial version) Make a sysrtem check and you just have to search in the results, it will be there.

I hope you find it :thumbup:

After you know what you have simply use google to find out what ram you need.. or maybe the store guys will be helpful.