Not accepting even numbers.. that's a little strange would be cool to find out why it's doing that.
Temps are decent, i like keeping my stuff alot cooler ~50C max. What kinda heatsink you using?

At the moment only overclocked thing in my comp is the video card. XFX 7900gs, 525mhz factory ~680 now. Still runs cool with the zalman heatsink.

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So he has an Integra and you have a 240? I know why she left you. She likes it in the front better than the rear. Welcome to NICO.

Good job none the less!

What your doing is pushing it TO it's limits, because if you push it past it's limits your computer just gets really unstable, freeze ups/BSOD/etc

Here's a full guide from Tom's hardware that explains how overclocking works, and how to do it... in better words then i could.
http://www.tomshardware.com/19...guide

btw... the article is from 97. The principles of overclocking are the same, just the processors and stuff he talks about are VERY dated. Some of the technical items have changed alot, especially the statements about AMD/IBM and others being very heat sensitive CPUs.

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Case was changed to an Antec 900, and the Thermaltec V1 heatsink went back, and the Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme took it's place.

Impressive! What are you using for heat sinking (did I miss an earlier post or something)?

Z

What is the purpose of overclocking?

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Basically, significant performance improvement at a lower cost.

You buy a 1.8GHz processor and get the performance of a 3.6GHz processor without paying the premium price (usually more cost ratio than the difference in simple speed ratios) of the higher-rated cpu and memory, etc.

For some situations (program mostly resident in memory, etc.) like gaming, etc., this is a good outcome.

However, side effects include instability, more stress on internal parts (greater heat), etc.

You should only do this with care and if you really need to, or for the "I climbed the mountain because it was there! - Mallory" (this is not an exact quote, by the way) kind of achievement.

Z

"Performance improvement" in a car makes sense... but what does it mean in PC terms?

And, for someone like me who uses a PC 99% of the time for web work, what good would it do me?

Hope tht kinda helps. it gets really complex and if u read up on computers or were into the techy side it would be easier to understand like anything else if u have previous knowlege. And your right for most normal pc users they dont need crazt hardware, but nice hardware will always make a comp run much smoother if u take the proper precautions

That depends on your current setup. With page load times you have to consider many things, like spyware scanners, firewalls and connection speed also.

But to answer your question yes a faster processor will improve tab load times, also upgrading your memory IF you do not already have enough.

As long as proper cooling is taking place (and proper settings) it would still last a good life.

Beancooker:After relooking at his numbers though, his cooling is very good for what it is, im assuming however that its pretty much just sitting there with nothing to do. What is your high temp when your running an anti-virus or something similair. When i first said it was a little high I was thinking it was at 85

That would depend on your Internet access speed more than the processor speed. If the Net access is slow, then speeding up the processor is relaticely pointless if all you plan to do is surf the web with your PC. You would be better off getting a higher speed connection to the Internet and paying for that.

Z

Depending on how fast your current connection to the web is, this kind of CPU over-clocking probably would do nothing for you.

Z

I think he said/implied that he had run Prime95 for 26 hours ... so, not exactly idle.

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When i first said it was a little high I was thinking it was at 85

Exactly my reason for asking what cooling he was using!

Z

At 100% full load (prime95 and FOH) it was getting up to 49ºC.

Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme is the heatsink, with a 120mm Antec fan. It also sits in an Antec 900 case which provides great airflow.

As long as the business behind my house is closed, and their server is offline and not hogging the neighborhood's bandwidth, pageloads are WICKED FAST!

Greg, go to http://www.speedtest.net/ and test the speed you are running. Post it back here. If you have a great connection, a better processor will do wonders. My older Gateway (which is only 2 years old) sitting side by side with "teh Monster" loads pages about 1/2 as fast. If I have Media Player running on both, Monster loads them almost 4 times as fast.

The Gateway is running a AMD dual core 3800.

Little testy with your reply...but my comments were not directed at you. They were directed at bean. And at 35degrees celcius its not crazy to believe its at idle.. it was more of a thought and a statement when I said that. My CPU cores are at 25-27 degrees celcius at idle.

Also, I already know Gregs internet connection is cable, no way he would run a forum without it. Therefore my statements still stand.

Beancooker: 49 still isnt bad at all, mad probs for your success with it man.

Oh, sorry, I was not upset at all ... I was mostly agreeing with you - at least, I thought that is how I said it! Tough to show the tone of voice in written text.

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Also, I already know Gregs internet connection is cable, no way he would run a forum without it. Therefore my statements still stand.

Okay. Not much disagreement on your comments there either, but I think that the perceptible difference between 1.8GHz and 3.6GHz for web-surfing will be not that high - even for cable-speed surfing, I would think. For slower-speed access to the Internet, the processor speed would be not relevent.

For example, my house access is via relatively slow 768kbps SDSL ... so, even my son's ancient Celeron laptop, with 256MBytes of memory, does fine when web-surfing. And, of course, on disk or memory intensive stuff, his 2.8GHz desktop and my wife's Apple MacBook pro with a 2.2GHz dual-core are much, much faster than that old laptop!

I suspect (and I am speaking without really knowing what he has, etc.) Greg would probably be way better off increasing things like RAM first ... for example, if the computer has 1GBytes, increasing it to 2GBytes. Or, if it is a desktop, changing any 7200 rpm drive to 10,000 or 15,000! Or changing the graphics card for a high-performance one that off-loads the processor.

Etc., etc., etc.

Again, without knowing specifics, it is tough to say anything more than that really.

Z

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Beancooker: 49 still isnt bad at all, mad probs for your success with it man.

Did you mean props?

24º-25ºC at idle.

Honestly, I just got really lucky. The wafer that my proc was cut from was definitely better than average. I built the exact same PC for my bro, after he saw what I could do with mine, and his would only overclock stable to 3.2, so a lot of it was luck.

My mistake, I apologize sz. I totally misread your post.
Although I agree processor speed at normal internet viewing wont increase load times on a regular bases. But Gregs question was with multiple tabs open. Which would inrease the amount of memory usage depending on the tabs he has open, I feel processor speed would make a difference once surfing the web. Because even though you can download super fast, your computer has to process the data. Which you know that already.

Take for example netflix, to watch on the instant viewing it takes about 40-60% CPU usage while downloading and Playing the data, now if Greg has that open and has nico, im sure you get my drift.

No worries ... I was not upset.

All valid points in the rest of your post too.

Z

edit: now im here thinking why the hell did i make a post about it...

I'm surprised noone gave the simple example to Greg. Programs will load faster and respond faster(assuming internet connection isn't a factor).

So, opening firefox or IE will initially be faster.

The time from when you press the power button until when you're at the desktop and ready to go will decrease.