HELP ME

by **Miracle** » Sep 11, 2004 @ 3:14pm

I never overclock, except for my PPC sometimes

. I feel most comfortable with a system designed for speed where it's running at, so I can leave it one in the night when I like etc.

by **David Horn** » Sep 11, 2004 @ 4:05pm

Yup, it's highly unlikely that you can damage a PPC processor through overclocking, and you get a definite performance improvement.

Let me illustrate it this way - let's assume we have a 400Mhz Xscale, and a 3200MHz P4. We can get (with the facilities available) another 40MHz out of both machines.

So, on the Pocket PC, we get a theoretical 10% improvement. On the P4, we get a 1.25% improvement.

by **Kevin Gelso** » Sep 11, 2004 @ 5:31pm

by **Caesar** » Sep 11, 2004 @ 6:41pm

by **David Horn** » Sep 11, 2004 @ 10:46pm

by **Kevin Gelso** » Sep 12, 2004 @ 1:20am

by **Brig** » Sep 12, 2004 @ 1:26am

by **chuck** » Sep 12, 2004 @ 1:36am

by **sponge** » Sep 12, 2004 @ 6:06am

by **Kevin Gelso** » Sep 12, 2004 @ 6:19am

by **sponge** » Sep 12, 2004 @ 6:39am

by **David Horn** » Sep 12, 2004 @ 10:17am

Precisely. If your fan dies, you still have a heatsink attached to the CPU, and it will take slightly longer to die. Enough time, I'd have thought, for the sensor to catch up and shut it down.

On the other hand, if you're CPU is overclocked, not only are you increasing its speed, you're increasing the core voltage. That means it will get very hot very quickly, and I suspect, overheat before the sensor notices.

In addition, remember we're talking to the guy whose computer is lying in pieces on a nylon carpet...

by **Kevin Gelso** » Sep 12, 2004 @ 3:33pm

Ahem, that was my dad's computer and its now in a case. And don't even say anything about how he's an idiot because he is a god in overclocking.

Yes my voltage is up but only by .10, I still have faith in my MOBO to realize that it's getting to hot.

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