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"Overclocking PC's?"

We have all tried over-clocking our pc's right? Well up until the point when we see smoke coming out the back of our PC's at least.

It is an extremely effective way, at least in the short-term, to improve pc power and make even a dated computer seem half-decent.

I used to over-clock my p2- 266mhz at 400Mhz, I added about 2-3 more fans, removed the pc case, made sure the room I was in was cool and decreased the processor voltage. My computer, as you could imagine, was pretty unstable but at the time it was a "beast".

In most magazines you now see computers with fish tanks, fridges/freezers, etc running through/part of the computer to keep the whole thing cool. However this isn't practical or very cost-effective for the average joe is it?

So what I would like to know is if any of you have successfully been using an over-clocked pc (it could just be an over-clocked processor, graphics card, etc) without any glitches (by that I mean explosions!) could you please include details of how you managed it. Thank-you :oD

I have never, repeat -never-, given my pc to someone else to fix. Enough time and patience, and the occasional sledgehammer, and there's very little you can't do yourself..

SR repairs are looking upon this topic with big, big grins...

I don't push this too far, get around 80/85fps on timedemo001. Want to break 100 on the new box, hopefully 3000 on 3dmark2001 as well.

Clocking my graphics card up by 5mhz improved my quake 3 timedemo thingy from 55.6fps to 60.1fps. It improved my 3DMarks score by arouns fifty, leaving it at a little under 2600.

Overclocking my processor wasn't so safe...

I got a good 40/50fps increase when running @ 900 as apposed to 600!

Does anyone actually have benchmarking results, before and after overclocking - not lifted from other sites, but ones that you have conducted yourself. I'll run some on my new box, just wondering how much of an impact it actually had. Say, running 3d mark 2000/2001, and Quake 3 timedemo.

VenomByte wrote:
> Isn't that a terrible waste of Brandy?

I have a faulty enzyme system which means that I can't drink.

On a higher level, my liver lack an enzyme to break down ethanol which means if I get wasted I stay wasted for weeks.

although some people might find that cool...

I've been fire writing :-D

turbonutter wrote:
> Well, for a start this is ill-advised, but here is the scientific
> POV.

Try brandy, or some othe alcohol-based solvent. Because of
> the low boiling point of ethanol, the brandy evaporates and takes
> the excess heat with it.

Just don't come crying to me if it all
> breaks down

Isn't that a terrible waste of Brandy?

My CD-ROM is ars... broken, after 1 year and 2 months just outside warrantly which is annoying!