Prime Junta
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Anyone here experienced with overclocking their rigs? I have never tried it. However, yesterday I did a bit of reading up and OC'ed my AMD Athlon 64 X2 3800+ to 4800+ spec.
Specifically, I set the FSB clock to 240 MHz and multiplier to 10, and the voltage to 1.4V. I didn't mess with the memory timings. (I have vanilla Kingston ValueRAM so I'm pretty sure I can't get away with pushing the timings much.)
The results? My Vista performance index for the CPU went up from 4.2 to 4.9, and NWN2 is noticeably less stuttery. No stability problems so far. I have an air-cooled box, but it should be up to some overclocking. (Antec P180 case, pretty hefty Zalman AlCu heatsink+fan for the CPU if you're interested.)
In other words, it appears to have been a success. I'm sure it's sub-optimal in many ways and possibly I did something completely wrong, so I'd be very grateful for any pointers from people more experienced with this sort of thing.
Specifically, I set the FSB clock to 240 MHz and multiplier to 10, and the voltage to 1.4V. I didn't mess with the memory timings. (I have vanilla Kingston ValueRAM so I'm pretty sure I can't get away with pushing the timings much.)
The results? My Vista performance index for the CPU went up from 4.2 to 4.9, and NWN2 is noticeably less stuttery. No stability problems so far. I have an air-cooled box, but it should be up to some overclocking. (Antec P180 case, pretty hefty Zalman AlCu heatsink+fan for the CPU if you're interested.)
In other words, it appears to have been a success. I'm sure it's sub-optimal in many ways and possibly I did something completely wrong, so I'd be very grateful for any pointers from people more experienced with this sort of thing.
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