EmbraceThePenguin
Limp Gawd
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- Aug 31, 2004
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Ok, I said I would not overclock because of the dangers to the hardware, and here I am trying it out :-P.
I have an AMD X2 4400 with the Thermalright SI-120 and a big ass fan on top. Stock settings, I sit at around 32 to 34c idle and under load about 38c to 40c.
Now, I have been reading about overclocking the htt and dropping the cpu ratio to get more "Throughput" from the system. So, what I did was went from the stock 200htt and 11x to 300htt and 8x on the core. That got me to 2.4gig from 2.2gig. I also dropped the memory back to 133 and that kept the raitio to 200mhz like stock. I also bumped up the CPU voltage by +.075 but left the memory and chipset voltage stock.
I have tested with several games like Doom3 and Quake4 and time demoed and played them and all seems ok at this point...
I guess my question is this. Seeing that I am keeping mostly stock speeds for the memory and only a 200mhz jump on the CPU and a small bump in CPU voltage, will I have to worry about anything failing in my system like memory going bad or the CPU frying?
I haven't overclocked much after the 300 celery days; haven't really felt like I had too. I just thought I would see what all the hype is about. Quite frankly, I really don't see much difference in the 200mhz overclock. However, I must say that Linux is a bit snappier in KDE (Window Manager).
Anyway, just looking for some warm and fuzzies on the hardware
Thanks!!!
Joe
I have an AMD X2 4400 with the Thermalright SI-120 and a big ass fan on top. Stock settings, I sit at around 32 to 34c idle and under load about 38c to 40c.
Now, I have been reading about overclocking the htt and dropping the cpu ratio to get more "Throughput" from the system. So, what I did was went from the stock 200htt and 11x to 300htt and 8x on the core. That got me to 2.4gig from 2.2gig. I also dropped the memory back to 133 and that kept the raitio to 200mhz like stock. I also bumped up the CPU voltage by +.075 but left the memory and chipset voltage stock.
I have tested with several games like Doom3 and Quake4 and time demoed and played them and all seems ok at this point...
I guess my question is this. Seeing that I am keeping mostly stock speeds for the memory and only a 200mhz jump on the CPU and a small bump in CPU voltage, will I have to worry about anything failing in my system like memory going bad or the CPU frying?
I haven't overclocked much after the 300 celery days; haven't really felt like I had too. I just thought I would see what all the hype is about. Quite frankly, I really don't see much difference in the 200mhz overclock. However, I must say that Linux is a bit snappier in KDE (Window Manager).
Anyway, just looking for some warm and fuzzies on the hardware
Thanks!!!
Joe