Post Your Overclock!

smarteyeball said:

Ha ha - that's usually the way. I built a strong 775 system 2 weeks before the release of 1366


Resist mate - you are at least in a very good position to wait for the invariable revisions, price drops and end-user feedback etc

Your i7-950 and my system are still by no means slouches of any kind whatsoever.

But.... that 2600K..... it.... looks so.... good.... and the performance..... wow!

But you're right. And trust me, cooler heads will prevail as there's no way I can justify a new system on top of my less than year old i7-950 system

Still, that 2600K is quite impressive....

smarteyeball said:

hell, I'm even keeping my 5970 until it's 1st birthday*

Well I have a birthday coming up in a few weeks and decided I'm going to treat myself to a 6950 to replace my aging 4890

smarteyeball said:

* temptation subject to change without warning

Thus the battle between wants and needs

linnemeyerhere said:

I was hoping people could comment on my modest OC. I seems very stable and I'm sure I can push it more in time as I continue to learn. Please offer thoughts and ideas. If you run a 965 then please let me know what you've found to be a good setting combo. My system spec's are complete below ! Cheers, the Cheese

Well, I don't have a quad-core, currently running a dual-core 5400+ (2.8 OC to 3.1), but from what friends have told me and from reading up online, the more cores there are the less likely you are to get a decent overclock... So as far as I'm concerned, going from 3.4 to 4.0 with a quad-core sounds damn good to me!

What sort of temps do you get under load? Or are those under load...? Not sure if you already have it, but OCCT's CPU stress test generates a couple graphs at the end of the test that show your speed in MHz, temps and power consumption for the duration of the test. You might want to check it out..

I've reaaaaally wanted to overclock my rig.. But I just don't know how.. Anybody knows a website where I can teach myself to overclock?

Dave76 said:

Here's a couple to get you started.

Newbie Guide to Overclocking

I vaguely remember seeing that thread a long time back, but I never got to save the link... Don't think I ever actually finished reading it. Lol.


Edit: I think I just realised why I didn't ever finish it, most of that thread is aimed at overclocking Intel systems, not AMD... But still, there are tips there that will help regardless of the CPU choice.