Processor Speed

[Skank]

just go into the bios and turn up the voltage settings one notch at a time, if anything fails just revert back to the default settins, i did this on a pentium 4 1600, first notch i was able to go up to was 2300..your probably gonna need a better heat sink and fan if your running AMD, they arent reknown for putting good ones in straight off the show room floor

[Enigma2003]

not necessarily. when you increase the voltage to the ship, you increase the heat. the main thing in overclocking it keeping the heat down. this is the problem, otherwise overclocking would be so, so easy.

you will need to increase the front side bus (fsb) and the mutiplier in the bios. if the system becomes unstable then you can put the voltage up to increase stability. With an ordinairy heatsink and fan cooling, you dont wanna push the voltage up too much as this is what increases the heat.

three things you can do:
increase fsb (increases the speed)
increase multiplier (increases the speed)
increase voltage (increases stability and heat)

the idea is to get asmuch speed as you can whilst keeping stability high and heat low. Your chip temp shouldnt really be going over 50 degrees C.
Also if your comp isn't new, then check the heatsink for dust. cleaning it can lower your temp about 5 degrees.

its all a compromise between stability and speed.

Again, go on google and find a better guide, but this is what you need to do.

[Damnatory]

Originally posted by Enigma2003@13 August 2003 - 13:07
the idea is to get asmuch speed as you can whilst keeping stability high and heat low. Your chip temp shouldnt really be going over 50 degrees C.

I forget the formula for Celsius to Fahrenheit, but roughly, 50 celsius is like 130 Fahrenheit right? I use ASUS PC Probe to monitor my temp. It's normally at 36 C / 96 F, Though I thought it was running to hot, but I wasn't sure.

[3rd gen noob]

Originally posted by Damnatory@14 August 2003 - 07:07
I forget the formula for Celsius to Fahrenheit

to go from celsius to farenheight, multiply the degrees c by 1.8, then add 32 to the answer, thus

f = (1.8c)+32

also, you don't necessarily have to increase voltage when overclocking
i overclocked from 2.17 to 2.22 GHz (basically going from a 2700 to 2800), with no problems at all on stock cooling

also, a 2700 should be more than enough for your needs anyway, why would you want more?

[theprisoner]

Overclocking is far more dangerous for what its worth, the computer runs very very hot and wares out faster for a little difference..

[Enigma2003]

I forget the formula for Celsius to Fahrenheit, but roughly, 50 celsius is like 130 Fahrenheit right? I use ASUS PC Probe to monitor my temp. It's normally at 36 C / 96 F, Though I thought it was running to hot, but I wasn't sure.

36 is very fine, you dont have to worry at all with that temp.

also, you don't necessarily have to increase voltage when overclocking
i overclocked from 2.17 to 2.22 GHz (basically going from a 2700 to 2800), with no problems at all on stock cooling

with that size of an overclock, you shouldnt need to increase the voltage. There you're only increasing by 0.05Ghz (50MHz). that is not a very large overclock.

if you want to actually overclock and feel a difference then you will need to increase the voltage. For example i have 2.4GHz P4 running at a comfortable 2.73GHz. normally my machine (not overclocked) will run at 41.4 degrees, when i overclock it reaches a maximum of 47.5 degrees which is absolutely fine. this does no harm.

50 degrees is perfect.
60 degrees is a temp you def. should not exceed.
70 degrees is just dangerous.

[_John_Lennon_]

Im usually running at anywhere from 47-58, but my 2500 is overclocked with it, but I neednt worry, if it dies, I just send it back in, Heh.

Serious, Overclocking is always worth it, because you always have SOME head room, and your getting more worth out of your processor, beause its running faster than the amount you paid for.

[Enigma2003]

JL is right. Almost every chip can get some speed out of it with absolutely no hassle. In fact it is not uncommon for Intel to say take a 2.6GHz P4 and set it down to 2.4GHz simply because demand is high.

if you get one of these chips then you are in luck and it is very easy to overclock.

[Miyake]

i have a p4 1.4 on a microstar ms 6385. it has no jumpers and no bios setting. thers a cpu muliplyer. its set at 8 which is the safe setting, it can only go up to 24, i set it to the pre said number and it did fuck all