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The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by Praetor, May 1, 2004.

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  1. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    Not in the US maybe, in the UK we use pretty much exclusively Celsius these days.
     
    sammorris, Jun 17, 2009
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  2. theonejrs

    theonejrs Senior member

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    I guess it doesn't get as cold or as hot then, because there's a lot of places in the US that get very cold and places that get very hot. Here's the records!

    Record low Prospect creek, Alaska
    -61.611111111111114C
    -78.9F

    Record high Death Valley, California
    56.66666666666667C
    134F

    Even In the lower 48, in the northern part of the country there's a swing in temperatures of over 150F between the coldest and the hottest temperatures! Celsius would be very confusing to people here, and not as accurate as Fahrenheit without the decimal palces!
     
    theonejrs, Jun 17, 2009
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  3. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    Seriously Russ, get it together. Surely you can see that the margin of error is higher with Fahrenheit than Celsius with a single decimal place.
     
    sammorris, Jun 17, 2009
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  4. shaffaaf

    shaffaaf Regular member

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    CAN WE DROP IT?!
     
    shaffaaf, Jun 17, 2009
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  5. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    Nah, where's the fun in that?
    Seriously though. Celsius = logical. Fahrenheit = Archaic. All there is to it.
     
    sammorris, Jun 17, 2009
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  6. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    DROP IT!!!
     
    ddp, Jun 17, 2009
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  7. shaffaaf

    shaffaaf Regular member

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    much love :D

    so DDP did you know that inches are worse than centimeters?


    xD
     
    shaffaaf, Jun 17, 2009
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  8. ddp

    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    i use both metric & imperial measurements in what i do plus fahrenheit and celsius. as we are way off topic, we'll leave that to the correct forum which this is not.
     
    ddp, Jun 17, 2009
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    Thank god, someone came to the rescue with these idiots.

    Many thanks, ddp.
     
    sytyguy, Jun 17, 2009
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    shaffaaf Regular member

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    woaw sytyguy, why the personal hit?
     
    shaffaaf, Jun 17, 2009
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    ddp Moderator Staff Member

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    sytyguy, no problem as i figured it had gone long enough being off topic.
     
    ddp, Jun 17, 2009
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    Again, many thanks!!!!
     
    sytyguy, Jun 17, 2009
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    yeah. now can someone please at least make an attempt at answering my overclocking question of a few pages back??
     
    routergod, Jun 20, 2009
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    routergod,
    The problem is that there are no overclocking adjustments in the bios. You can't change the FSB,or the memory speed, so software is the only thing for you to overclock with. It's a Via chipset, which means it's slow to begin with! Without being able to alter any of these, your only option is software! It also has On board Graphics, which makes a bad situation even worse! I'm not throwing rocks, it's just not a very good motherboard for what you want to do with it! Sorry I can't be more helpful!

    Best Regards,
    Russ
     
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    theonejrs, Jun 21, 2009
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  16. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    Unless you want a lot of hassle for maybe a couple of % tops, VIA with integrated graphics = no overclocking. Sorry.
     
    sammorris, Jun 21, 2009
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    I think its fair to say if you want a performance boost. Buy a new motherboard of pretty much any type (excluding VIA)!

    VIA boards are cr*p!
    end of.
     
    keith1993, Jun 21, 2009
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  18. Estuansis

    Estuansis Active member

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    VIA boards have always been mediocre at best. They aren't OC friendly and they always seem to have some sort of compatibility issue. I've never personally used one but the general consensus is that they're good for office machines and not much else.
     
    Estuansis, Jun 21, 2009
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  19. keith1993

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    They're not even good for office machines as they're not even close to being reliable enough.
     
    keith1993, Jun 22, 2009
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  20. sammorris

    sammorris Senior member

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    I had an MSI VIA chipset board, worked alright for me. Agreed, there was no overclocking to speak of but considering it came in an off-the-shelf PC I would have been surprised if there was.
     
    sammorris, Jun 22, 2009
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