Suggestions on moderate OC

[Wraithlok]

Super new to this.. i have some premium components and will fiddle with them much farther down the line once I get up to speed on exactly HOW to do it... which I am working on slowly but steadily

 

 

Here is my question:

 

I would love a moderate overclock that I could input now to get some speed and performance increases and NOT have to worry about overcooking the thing... cooling on air and rest in sig

 

 

and no i won't blame you if something f's up

[davidhammock200]

Over Clocking Guide: http://www.dfi-street.com/forum/showthread.php?t=20823

[EllisD]

Take a look at the link in my sig for THunDA's Overclocking guide and read it. When you are done reading it, read it again. Its all about patience when it comes to this game. Also check out the Overclocking Database (OCDB) to find a similar motherboard RAM CPU combo as yours to get an idea on some of the settings. But remember that no 2 systems, even with the exact same hardware, will not act the same when overclocked so just use those as a guideline and dont just put them in expecting them to work.

[ICON57]

in most real life apps...you wont see any increase in performance on a mild oc....perhaps you will/would in some benchies, but in most everyday use, you will not.

like the others have told you....read the oc'ing guide.

[old_geekster]

The problem that I have found is, it is difficult for the eye to differentiate between 1 or 2 GHz.

 

I go from my HP Pavilion with an AMD 1.4GHz to my sig, now running at 2.7GHz, and unless I am gaming, I don't notice a great difference. Sure, there are those lags that I don't get any longer, but I believe I noticed more difference going from Dial-up to DSL on my old rig.

 

I know this is a poor example, because we all know that my sig is running circles around my HP, but I read what H_G said one time -- Your rig is only as fast as your eye can perceive it to be. Set it and enyoy what you plan to do with your rig.

[Kaxx]

Not to be disagreeable, but I noticed a difference going from 2.2 (stock) to 2.75 GHz, not a "HUGE" difference but a difference well worth the OC nonetheless......

[Mindflux]

I'm basically an OCing newb but as far as I understand it it's fairly safe to OC so long as you don't increase the voltage, if you're looking for a moderate OC I'd suggest doing what I did, just add some some speed, keep the voltage the same and see if it's stable...this is what I did with my 165:

FSB from 200-250

FSB/Dram = 6/5

manually set voltages to stock...

VID=1.300

Vspec=104%

 

make sure cool'n'quiet is disabled and don't expect standby to work properly. Load up your machine, test it on superpi while keeping a close eye on the temps and if it works run prime for a night and see if you get any errors. And also, yeah read that overclockers guide 3 or 4 times, make sure your ram dividers set properly etc.

 

I ended up going from 1.8 to 2.25, I've no idea if your chip will be able to do this so easily (I have a feeling that it won't) But I did notice a performance increase...barely but I did notice it.