overclocking

[patio]

One of my client's called me last month right after the Holiday...his 15 year old son burned up the Q6600 i had bult for his Architect Home Office...needless to say he was pretty peeved.
I had read that the Q6600 handles OC'ing pretty well...

[neljan]

Again, I hate to disagree, but I am pretty sure you could see more benefit from overclocking, say, an Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 than, say, an Intel Pentium 3.  The former can realise much higher clock speeds than the latter, and also a larger increase from stock speeds, therefore I would say that overclocking the newer, more expensive CPU has in this case led to a larger increase in performance.

I have to admit to being a complete noob at that sort of stuff & it seems you know what your talking about.

Just not for me, but if I was gonna, I'll come talk to you 

[LtRyan5184]

I had a client Burn up and Intel Celeron Socket 370...... it was 266MHz, and the guy was new to computers, wanted it to run XP fast, so he screwed wiht his jumper settings.....

meh. ive never seen a PC that wrecked...... overclocking is quite good when used properly however can cause damage when not properly done

[fpsmitch]

i agree, overclocking is great, i have an older machine(amd athlon 3500+2.2)
now overclocked to a nice 2.6 stable...no need for new cooling components either...
if you do it right you can save money but if you mess up you can cost your whole build...

[neljan]

As you said ' I have an older machine'

Would you o/c with a new build that's already quick enough?

[fpsmitch]

if it meets the needs no...
but it is always an option, specially when i play computer games and i get LAG!
that is one of my biggest pet peeves, haha but if i was to build a new machine heck no i wouldnt, like you guys said there is always the risk. and i would not risk a brand new computer that was fast enough allready to handle what i want to do...

[neljan]

Hey, I just did that speed test thing:



That's crap right? how can I speed that up?

[fpsmitch]

lol, get a better isp

[neljan]

lol I knew you were gonna say that!

Who are you with?

[Calum]

I had read that the Q6600 handles OC'ing pretty well...

It does.
That's down to inexperience and/or impatience.

I have to admit to being a complete noob at that sort of stuff & it seems you know what your talking about.

Just not for me, but if I was gonna, I'll come talk to you 

I'm flattered, lol.  I'm no expert on the topic, I know enough to get myself and friends by though.

Personally if the machine was fast enough for my needs there is no point in making it faster, it's a waste of time and/or money.
I upgrade or overclock only when necessary, or desirable.

[fpsmitch]

lol, i have cox communications, it costs me 96 bucks a month for it and i dont even get a good upload...

[neljan]

(sorry to be going off topic everyone)

One more question fpsmitch:

The download speed (you know that really BIG number you like showing off  ) that's the speed for downloading files & not browsing right? how can I test my browsing speed?

[fpsmitch]

well, yes that is my download speed, test browsing by going here
http://network.msu.edu/public/speedtest.html

[Eg0Death]

How's this look?

[neljan]

To be honest, I couldn't care about upload/download speeds, it's browsing speed that I care about.

Mine is showing as 1.12 meg, man, that's pants!

I'll have to get onto my ISP...