[plug] Overclocking a CPU

[Caleb Duggan]

My old celeron is overclocked from 600mhz to 1ghz. But that was easy, i  
didn't even have to unlock it.

I tried overclocking an old t-bird and, i had to cross some bridges on the  
processor to unlock but, it got 2 hot so i put it back to normal.

It's usually not worth the trouble/risk to overclock, I have only done it  
on hardware which i dont mind getting fried(haven't fried anything yet  
though).

On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 05:11:51 +0800, WolfBite <wolfbite_aus at yahoo.com>  
wrote:

> and dont forget the GOTCHA!
>   in theory you can just plug in 2 hdrives and SHOULD work
>   BUT
>   there are combinations out there that wont reside with each other or  
> HAVE to be master as opposed to slave.(admittly the older drives are the  
> culprits but every now and then you can get it with new drives, one of  
> the reasons the surgest pairs too :)
>  but clocking is chip specific
>   and usually for the freak gamer trying to get that last once of grunt  
> for their gaming rig.
>  quick short vote anyone overclocking ANY of their computers?
>   only YES votes need to reply.
>  Wolfbite
>
> Craig Ringer <craig at postnewspapers.com.au> wrote:
>   l anderson wrote:
>> Howdy,
>> Did everyone have an enjoyable XMAS/New Year.
>>
>> What needs to be carried out to overclock the CPU on an HP Vectra VE,  
>> CPU's
>> present speed is set at 233Mhz which is I believe the standard setting.
>> How far can we push the speed without overclocking to far.
>> This will be my first attempt at overclocking.
>
> With guaranteed safety? 0% .
>
> Beyond that, it depends on the "headroom" of the CPUs, ie how much
> faster those particular chips can run than their labelled rating, and on
> how well cooled they are. If you care about reliability or not frying
> your hardware, don't overlock.
>
>> I also wish to add a second hdd as the original is very small.
>> Adding a second disk is in it self simple enough The jumper settings
>> should be ?????.
>
> Well, if the existing disk is jumpered master, the new one must be
> jumpered slave. However, if the second disk is a lot larger, consider
> getting rid of the old disk entirely and just use the new one jumpered
> master. Old small disk == slow and more likely to fail disk . Remember
> that disk I/O speed (and amount of available RAM) is much more crucial
> to performance in many tasks than CPU speed.
>
> These questions could all have been answered easily with a little
> research (google, various forums, etc), and are really pure hardware
> questions that're nothing to do with PLUG.
>
> --
> Craig Ringer
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