Overclocking..
 

Have we any other speed merchants on here? :D

i use to overclock cpu/ram but haven't done for a few years now.

i use to help crunch seti's for the overclockers forum

at the minute I have no need to do anything, as I am running a new machine and have decent enough benchmark scores, and everything I chucked at it so far works fine :D

Thought I would give it a go....

Laptop - 3dmark06 was 3336 now 4142
PC - was AMD Athlon 64 X2 4000+ (@ 2.1ghz x2) Now @ 2.6ghz x2 standard cooling..

They have come along way since my Athlon 1200mhz running at 1333mhz!

Had water cooling on my old pc. A little hint to anybody who wants to try this, unless you like the smell, don't substitute deionised water with Lenor iron deionised water! Also the other ingredients make it very bubbly, still worked fine though.

I ran 3Dmark06 and get 10895 marks :)

I wont overclock it though, as I do think a quad core is plenty fast enough without pushing it for the sake of a few extra points on a benchmark program.

You have no need to overclock I agree...:) Equally, having spent a fraction of the cost of a high end system yet still being able to get similar performance is rather satisfying;)

I don't plan on doing so, but if I did opt for water-cooling again I'd buy something like this.....

http://www.guru3d.com/article/gengoods/257/11

No need customising it, it's already been thought of in all areas!

I don't feel the need to customise either :shrug: the only person that will see my PC is me, so i would rather spend the money or more RAM or something else, although I do agree some of them look really nice :)

Can't see the need :shrug:

Mine trundles along fast enough for what I need so might as well keep hardware within operational parameters rather than take risks.

Would give it a go in a while when this one is too slow as standard though :)

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