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i wanna over-clock a few things, but so far i am only aware of a few things.

i want info on what kind of temperature my CPU is perfectly OK at. atm my CPU is running at 50 C. and it's a hot day. so, what kind fo temperature would create a compromise between speed and lifetime?

also, the voltages on CPU, DRAM and AGP are as follows:

CPU mhz: 1729.00Mhz

CPU: 1.596
DRAM: 2.5
AGP: 1.5

The APCI, DRAM and AGP clock, frequnecy or SOMETHING are as follows:

DRAM: 266
AGP: 66
PCI: 33

OK, you overclocking techie's - you should know what i'm on about, so help me please....


note: the tool i'm using is Gigabyte Easytune 4.

fiƒi[oV] wrote:
> No, just potentially equally dangerous water flowing inside your case.
> The main real benefit of water cooling now is the low noise, air
> cooling can do a perfectly good job in line with a low end water
> cooling system. If you want to get in to stupidly large overclocks and
> suchlike, Vapochill and suchlike offer genuine massive temperature
> drops, but the price is simply ridiculous.

Oh yeah, ive looked at the Vapochill cases. I dont know what makes me shudder more, the price or the temperature.

Miserableman wrote:
> Memorandum wrote:
> I've got an AthlonXP2000+ running at 1.8GHz, with an idle
> temperature
> of 40 degrees, and it hits 48-49 after 4 hours of 100% load.
>
> How :O/
>
> My XP2000 idles at about 55 degrees with a very expensive heatsink, 4
> case fans and a PSU fan directly above it. Is yours a Palomino or
> Thoroughbred core?

I have no idea how. It's a Palomino. I have 3 case fans, a nicely sized case, a pure copper heatsink complete with 80mm fan. System temp. never goes above 30, which is nice, and definitely has to be one of the main factors.

Confusing, however, is that another machine with a 1700 Palomino, in the same model of case, with the same model of heatsink and one less case fan idles at around 46, at stock speed.

Just varies from CPU to CPU I suppose. :-/

No, just potentially equally dangerous water flowing inside your case. The main real benefit of water cooling now is the low noise, air cooling can do a perfectly good job in line with a low end water cooling system. If you want to get in to stupidly large overclocks and suchlike, Vapochill and suchlike offer genuine massive temperature drops, but the price is simply ridiculous.

If you want to overclock your CPU I'd recommend getting into water cooling aswell. That way you can perform a larger overclock and not have to worry about dangerous temperatures and instabilities.

great.

y'know, i foolishly bought PC3200 RAM when i'm not even capable of running it at 400mhz. i don't have barton core.

Problem solved!

The FSB speed for my CPU is meant to be 166Mhz, but I had it set to a measly 100Mhz. One quick setting change later and I'm up to the full 2050Mhz. :D

Still got the 200Mhz FSB option if I fancy it...

oh, and MY XP2100+ lingers at around 51 with hardly any load apart from the rpogram that collects the data.

Uncle Albert wrote:
> I'm a bit worried now. I'm meant to have an XP2800+, but it says on
> POST and in Windows system information that the CPU is running at
> 1243MHz. Is this correct? :/

there might be a clock setting switch on your motherboard. mine had that problem too, and i was so convinced they had fobbed me off i even sent a complaint e-mail....of course that was BEFORE i found the clock setting switch.

read the manual.

Too late now, let it run its course.

I know it's a bit late but wouldn't this topic be better in the PC forum ?