So I tried overclocking for the first time...

[Delikatessen]

Since my trusty ol' custom-built computer from 2008 is nearing the end of its life (motherboard's severely outdated), I thought I'd tried overclocking the Q6600 I have.

 

I read up on the dangers of overclocking, such as heat, melting, fire, implosion, etc. and I decided to try it anyway. This is my first manual CPU overclock EVER.

 

I used an Asus P5N-D with these settings:

Vcore: 1.42
North Bridge: 1.44v
HT: 1.44v
South Bridge: Auto
FSB: 1600
CPU Multiplier: x9

 

The result was 3.6GHz, overclocked from 2.4GHz. Not bad for a first try (self-pat-on-back) and it's pretty stable so far. I just tried CoD4 and it's running noticibly faster, as it was around 75 FPS before the OC and now it's 90 to 95 FPS after the OC (yes, I have an old GPU, but I'm upgrading it too). At first, I accidentally set the FSB wrong and it BSOD'd on me (which is funny, because my background displays a 124 error, which is sometimes caused by overclocking).

 

I'm gonna mess around with BF3 and see what I can do.

[Thor.]

Nice although turbo Overclocks my Phenom 1100t 6x from 3.30 to 3.8ghz by stock. I never thought of taking it farther then that. On fans... Edited March 23, 2012 by Thor.

[Delikatessen]

OK, I just tried BF3 and it's running smooth as butter (45-75 FPS, up from 20 to 30 FPS). The only problem is that it crashes if I run it in fullscreen, but it was like that before I OC'd.

[Illiad86]

Not bad man :) Best OC I've ever gotten is on this computer...3.2GHz stock OCed to 4.0GHz :D I remember when I got my old computer past 3GHz and couldn't believe how much faster games would run. You can imagine how it is now lol ;)

[Delikatessen]

Not bad man :) Best OC I've ever gotten is on this computer...3.2GHz stock OCed to 4.0GHz :D I remember when I got my old computer past 3GHz and couldn't believe how much faster games would run. You can imagine how it is now lol ;)

Thanks!

 

And yeah, the overclockability (is that a word?) of processors is simply amazing these days. 7 years ago, we had 5GHz, but only if you had a very special motherboard and an awesome liquid nitrogen cooling system. Now it's pretty easy to achieve 5GHz if you have a high-end CPU and adequate cooling. Just imagine... by 2015, we'll have 14nm processors running at an incredible speed.

[SubjectProphet]

Never had to OC before, I have an Alienware from when they first came out, when they were great gaming computers and not junk. I ALWAYS get stable performance with games.

[samadchaz]

can you tell us what cooling system you are using, idle temp and load temp? and for stable overclock try Prime95 for testing your processor whole day but also monitor its temperature(log file in speedFan)

(btw I did my first overclock too a Core 2 [email protected] stock to 3.20 on Gigabyte G41 DDR3)

[TawsirradsLic]

Hi all I just signed up to this forum :)

[Delikatessen]

can you tell us what cooling system you are using, idle temp and load temp? and for stable overclock try Prime95 for testing your processor whole day but also monitor its temperature(log file in speedFan)

(btw I did my first overclock too a Core 2 [email protected] stock to 3.20 on Gigabyte G41 DDR3)

I'm using a Cooler Master system, forgot what model it is though. It looks like this but it's for an LGA 775 socket. And I'll have to get back to you on that temperature thing because I haven't monitored it aside from that picture I put up in the first post.

[samadchaz]

I am using Tunix Tower 120 Extreme. Idle is around 38-40 and load is 60-65 (degree Celsius)

 

http://i465.photobucket.com/albums/rr16/samadchaz/Capture-1.png

 

I dont believe I overclocked that much :sweat: