[VRiD]

it's actually not bad at all...the key of OCing is a sufficient Cooling System...Seriously, your chip age won't really be shortened by doing OC, but it's how you cool it that matters...As long as you cool it sufficiently, no matter how high you OC a chip, it won't really be dead in, perhaps, couple of months or so...so it's actually okay and say, if a chip were supposed to last like for 10yrs, i wouldn't really mind shorthening it to 5yrs by doing OC I have no plan of keeping it for 5yrs anyway...hehehhe...still, i don't recommend everybody to OC like hell, OK?! (I just don't want anybody saying ****ty things if i say "I have no plan of keeping it for 5yrs anyway" )

Mosfet cooling is quite needed if you OC with a pretty high voltage...but i don't really know how high is too high for your CPU in particular (Intel in general )...i'd suggest you to try to give some cooling and see if it does bring more room for your OC...but like you said, it wasn't that hot...so could be unnecessary
btw, seems like that A-DATA uses TCCD chips...which aren't that good to be paired with Intel...it's such a shame to have such nice mem which are actually rated to run @250MHz running @ 'only' 229MHz (some people do consider that pretty good though ..it's quite relative anyway)...AFAIK, people OC Intel procs by changing the multi...but maybe it's not applicable to your chip...man i don't know too much bout Intel chips...i've always been playing with AMD Procs so far...XP-Mobile, Winnie 3000+, 3200+ and now Clawhammer 3500+...oh well...sorry...

Well my result of oc'ing is an unstable pc, so i dont know about good or bad. Maybe i just did something wrong.
If I manage to get my system stable with this oc by better cooling i will definetly even oc future systems.

I don't really know about TCCD but it's kinda rare to get that version and I dont think I even have it.

One thing is for sure, I really envy you with your nice stable oc over there :wub: :lol:

 

[Silvestre]

TCCD isn't rare at all...They're just mostly expensive...and there are also better and better rev. although the previous ones aren't that bad either...most can go around 270++MHz...but not that good when paired with Intel chipset...

 

[Vanit]

I would consider it... but I'd rather keep my computer in one piece thank you very much... and then there's my ongoing phobia of burning the house down.

 

[Master Chief]

I overclock. My dad overclocked the processor in his comp from 1.8ghz to 2.2ghz. This processor is an AMD Athlon XP 2500+ Barton. I have the same processor in mine, at the same speed. My brother has an AMD Athlon Thunderbird I think it was called and I could only get it running stable at 1512mhz. I overclocked all three graphics cards in the computers. I read somewhere that overclocking your gfx card to much can slow the game down after like 2 hours of playing. Fortunately I have gotten an FPS Boost. The Counter-Strike source stress test shows me that. Just be careful how much you overclock. And if your system doesnt boot after overclocking the processor, you can always clear the CMOS if the processor didnt fry.

As you probably know not all cards/processors etc like to overclock. Or overclock very high for that matter. You could try better cooling, or do some research on your cards/processors and find out if other people have had the same problems when trying to overclock.

 

[VRiD]

>>>As you probably know not all cards/processors etc like to overclock. Or overclock very high for that matter. You could try better cooling, or do some research on your cards/processors and find out if other people have had the same problems when trying to overclock.

Yeah I know, but I saw other people getting much better results with the same setup as mine. VR-Zone OC database. But I'll rsearch for ppl who got the same problems, thats a good idea thanx.

 

[Cid Highwind]

I think of unlocking the 4 extra pipelines in my Radeon 9800se, which is possible and has been tested already.

Also I want to get a DC @ 240 or 280 mhz one day, and yes, that IS possible

 

[VRiD]

>>>I think of unlocking the 4 extra pipelines in my Radeon 9800se, which is possible and has been tested already.

Unlocking the 4 extra pipelines is very successful for most people and it really gives a great performence boost, you should unlock them fast

>>>Also I want to get a DC @ 240 or 280 mhz one day, and yes, that IS possible

I never heard of a DC, is it some kind of core? maybe you meant sd?(san diego)

 

[Player-X]

There is a chance that the locked pipelines are locked because they are flawed during manifacturing, if you encounter artifacts then lock them

 

[Silvestre]

>>>I think of unlocking the 4 extra pipelines in my Radeon 9800se, which is possible and has been tested already.

Unlocking the 4 extra pipelines is very successful for most people and it really gives a great performence boost, you should unlock them fast

>>>Also I want to get a DC @ 240 or 280 mhz one day, and yes, that IS possible

I never heard of a DC, is it some kind of core? maybe you meant sd?(san diego)

DC is perhaps Dual Channel or Dual Core...

 

[Cid Highwind]

DC is Dreamcast you n00bs

 

[Esturk]

I got a nice 400MHz out of my overclock, I think it's worth it. Some cpu's are better for overclocking than others. As far as overclocking video cards.. Not worth it in my opinion.

 

[VRiD]

This maybe a dumb question but is highering the fsb and lowering the multiplier considerd oc?
if no its good for memory bandwidth use :]
(without having to worry about warrenty...)

 

[Esoteric930]

I've got a celery D 2.4 @ 3.0 on stock, very stable not even a vcore bump needed, and it trumps a good number of northwood p4s in benchmarks. The only weird thing is my FSB is now 666mhz, so I guess you could say I've overclocked the hell into my computer as opposed to out of it.

 

[dukenukem]

hell i rather run at stock so i know nothing will happen to my parts unless i feel like going crazy and doing insane oc's like what happened to cool's 9700pro was it,although i did oc my pci geforce2mx 200 card which helped it in games except for n64 emulation where it slowed to a crawl.Too bad the damn heatsink died and ended up killing the poor card.

 

[RF]

AlthonXP 2100+ (1.73ghz) @ 2.2Ghz 200x11, 1.725v
Radeon 9600Pro (400/300) @ 540/351
512mb PC2700 @ 400mhz (used to have nice timings on this till I upgraded to 1gb with some cheap value crap ram)

Been running very stable for years

 

[Yeloazndevil]

OC'ed this sempron 2300+ on the 'family' pc from 1.58 to 1.90 ghz. all FSB OC not some crappy multiplier way

 

[VRiD]

Have a lil' question about my gfx card
I dont oc it, it's on stock voltage and it's a leadtek 6800GT with the huge heatsink
my temps idle @ 65~ which is kinda high high for all the cooling + a big case and 3 fans but anyhow it never goes above 85
do these temps kill the card? or can a cpu oc effect the GFX card?
I'm asking cause i wanna know if my card is in a good condition and if it's safe to sell

 

[Demigod]

I very recently got an Athlon64 3000+. The default clock is 1.8 Ghz but I overclocked it to 2.4 Ghz (giving it a rating of 3800+). I can probably take it a bit higher but I'm perfectly content to stay where I am. The CPU I have is the Venice core and it's a magnificent overclocker. An increase of 600 Mhz and it hardly breaks a sweat. The temps haven't gone up much either, just about 2 - 2.5 celcius (from 50 celcius to 52 on full load).

This new CPU completely blows away my old system, which was a Pentium 4 2.8C. The P4 ran much hotter and didn't overclock as well. I actually upgraded because my old system was messed up (I formatted it and it suddenly wouldn't work anymore). I wanted to get something different and decided to go for an Athlon64.

My only reservation about the upgrade was HyperThreading. I can tell you right now that HT makes a big difference in computing. Even doing a couple of stressful and/or semi-stressful apps on this computer slows it down while the P4 hardly faltered at anything. A program could be taking up 100% CPU time (even high-priority kernel time) and the P4 would still be able to run other programs at decent speeds. Media encoding performance seems to be a bit down as well. Of course gaming performance couldn't be better, but I'm going to miss HT, and I'm not ready to jump on the dual-core bandwagon yet (since the clock is rather low at the moment).

 

[Techman]

Nah.. I would screw something up anyway.