The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

Corsair's memory is so good you may not need to. Try doing it without, and if you get problems, go with that cooler.
The best cooler I've heard for memory is the Thermalright HR-07, but so far it doesn't seem to be sold in the US.

 

that looks like its going to break the memory!

 

Why? Just because it's a bit big?

 

lol ya, i googled it an it looks like u can put a fan over it.

 

yep, although if it's anything like the HR-03 Graphics card cooler I use, you won't need to.

 

sammorris,

I was surprised too. I've had a lot of hot running computers that I've installed them in. Not just Freezer 7s. but Freezer 64s and 1 socket 478 as well! I do buy a lot of components from Newegg, Tigerdirect and Provantage! LOL!!

Clock On,
theone :>}

 

The Freezer 4! wow, that's going back a bit!

 

Just so everybody knows, this afternoon, I will begin my move to my student house in York. Unfortunately the previous tenants have been a bit disorganised about the internet connection, so any posts I make to this forum in the next week or so will be few and sporadic. I hope to have things set up as soon as possible (I need them for work!) but you know how things go.

ttfn

 

Sam,
you will be flat out catching up when your back full time!!!LOL!!

 

Double post(Still getting used to this maxthon browser!!)

 

Tell me about it, go out for a day and when I come back I've got 27 emails, 24 of them afterdawn thread updates...

 

24?Iv'e usually got 3 or 4..LOL!!

 

Guess I'm really just that helpful...

 

what a worthless forum this is these days..

 

it is, because anybody who needs help on overclocking starts their own thread on it saying "how do I overclock?" and nothing else...

 

well i overclocked my old P4 from 3.2ghz to 3.51ghz... Is that good? I did notice a increase in performance during boot up, but I can only do it in my BIOS, and this is as far as I can go (overclock10%)

Also, my gecube x1950xt agp I got from 645/702 to 702/855 stable in ATI Tool. I see people getting to 1500-2000 on their memory, and I only get to 950 before my ciomputer crashes... Sammorris said it was the "base" overclock for the memory, and that 950 is actully 1900mhz.

I really dont get that, can someone explain it to me?

Thanks!

 

Waymon3x6,

If it's like the nVidia cards, it depends on the software you use how it reports it. I suspect that has something to do with the fact that both of our memory is GDDR3. I know if I run certain Forceware versions, it only reports the memory speed as roughly half of what my current version reports, and you can't go above that or it crashes the video card.

Clock On,
theone :>}

 

I have a question, how the hell am I supposed to overclock my NVIDIA 7600 GT? I installed the latest drivers from their website, I downloaded Coolbits 2 and I ran that. Afterwards in the NVIDIA control panel it told be to download Ntune(When I tried to click on overclocking), which I did. After installing that it only shows me my GPU temps! No overclocking options whatsoever. I have now uninstalled Ntune and I was wondering what to do.

 

Try using RivaTuner from Guru3d. Just search it in google and download the latest version which is 2.02. Then start the app and click and the diagonal arrow pointing down right across where it says "ForceWare Detected and select the first option which is "System settings". From the first tab you should be able to overclock.

 

I downloaded that and it says that my drivers are too new and I just install a updates version of Riva Tuner, but I already installed the newest one I believe.
EDIT: My card is the super clocked version so do I really need to overclock further? Its at 600mhz core speed, and 1560 Mhz memory. BTW in rivatuner that 1560 mhz should equal 780 mhz right?