Overclock Requirements

[keiooz]

May I know what is the general rule or the minimum requirements before overclocking your system?

Edited December 29, 2011 by keiooz

[bishop245]

well one of the best general rules is what the temp of your cpu. Another would be, is this a prebuilt system or a custom built one. The reason for that is a lot of bios are shadowed by the prebuilt companies and won't let you oc.

[Tjj226_Angel]

Well I suppose the minimum requirement would be to have a motherboard BIOS that allows for overclocking, and a power supply with enough extra power for your overclock.

 

The average requirement would be to have a motherboard with "overclocking features" in the BIOS. This ensures that the board was intended for some sort of overclocking. Make sure that you have a power supply with as little voltage ripples as possible. Have a computer case with good airflow, and have a good after market cooler. Make sure you have a processor that can be overclocked for instance a Sandy Bridge K edition CPU. Lastly make sure you have a good set of ram.

 

That would be a pretty good place to start overclocking.

 

You can go to the extreme side of things and make sure your motherboard has as many power phases as possible, you have corsair dominator GT ram, a corsair Ax 1200 W PSU, a water cooling loop, and some sort of extreme edition processor. MAYBE some super fluid helium too

[Muchoman1]

 

You can go to the extreme side of things and make sure your motherboard has as many power phases as possible, you have corsair dominator GT ram, a corsair Ax 1200 W PSU, a water cooling loop, and some sort of extreme edition processor. MAYBE some super fluid helium too

 

once you get many things to liquid helium temps, it becomes a superconductor, so it will generate no heat, so then you will only need to insulate it and keep it at that temp, and no cooling will be needed

[IVIYTH0S]

I think you could still overclock an unlocked multiplier CPU in windows with a prebuild, I wouldn't recommend it but I *believe* you'd be capable... and what everyone else said haha

[d6bmg]

With locked BIOS you have very much limited option with overclocking, otherwise you are good.

[Tjj226_Angel]

once you get many things to liquid helium temps, it becomes a superconductor, so it will generate no heat, so then you will only need to insulate it and keep it at that temp, and no cooling will be needed

 

No that isn't entirely accurate. You would need some sort of plate and grit to prevent the liquid helium dripping out from the super flow that liquid helium can produce. In theory the metal and special sand grit you would need can easily heat up. Superfluid helium can heat up back to normal liquid helium state without the proper insulation. However, because of the nature of overclocking, it wold be very challenging to have a system of infinite insulation. More than likely we could only sustain SPH in a "super state" is if we insulated it with another superfluid of some nature.

 

To bad SP helium has zero viscosity, otherwise I would probably fly you out to the US and we could put something like that together.