The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

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Dust the old P4 off and get it out and Oc it..lol just playin around with this..I can't seem to find a temp monitor program for the p4 to watch heat if anybody know any let me know by link but it's running fine at 3.8ghz









just bored and finding something to do

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Temp monitor? Why not try Speedfan? I love speedfan. Though everest is my newest toy

 

@omegaman

forgot all about that thanks for the reminded

Idle


stressed

 

No problem buddy. Its probably the best FREE program for monitoring temps. Im sure someone will come along and try something different though... I wouldn't mind trying my hand at some simple programming someday. All in due time.

 

hey guys question/comment

i installed my easytune6 for my mobo.ive found that i can oc my cpu like normal but in the advanced part of ET6 it will let me keep the higher CPU OC and then let me under clock my mem. am i looking at that right? i put my CPU at 450fsb giving me 3825mhz putting my mem at 900mhz. but in the advanced settings i could change the mem frequency to 667mhz i think it was. i didnt do it cause i was pressed for time. i will do it tomorrow for sure to see what happens.
maybe ET6 is needed for the real fine tuning that I/everyone else is looking for. im going to play around with ET6 some more and find out what it can and cant do.
i knwo alot of people say not to mess with it. but if i go into the bios change my oc there then get it to fire up and go into ET6 and fine tune it hey it might just work out????? any thoughts or ideas on this?

 

EasyTune is to be avoided - stick to the BIOS, Easytune is for primitive overclocks.

 

i thought that also sam, but there sure is a hell of alot of people useing it with great success... Im thinking the same way as you on this, butthere is more settings ins ET6 than on the bios... i dont think gigabyte would have put it out there if there wasnt somethign good about it?????

 

I've seen a lot of reports of instability from EasyTune I don't see from the BIOS, I don't see why a software program restricted by what you can adjust without having to restart the machine should be better than the BIOS which isn't...

 

thats just it sam.. when i made that adjustment to 3.87ghz and underclocked the mem too 667 from 900. it told me i had to restart the systems for it to work properly...

im not defending it, but im also not knocking it. just for the fact i dont know?you know just because something didnt work or wasnt anygood in the past doesnt mean the same holds true for the present.

 

Agreed, but I haven't seen any evidence to the contrary as of yet.

 

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=624108

well i got it at 3.83ghz like i wanted. CPU is strong as can be. my mem is lacking. it will pass OCCT 1 hr testing. passed PR95 for a hour also. would only pass 4 of 5 test on IBT at 1/2 mem
gonna get up early tomorrow and put in the mushkin mem and see what i can do with it.

ET6 sucks.every setting i tried in it would not hold. tells me to restart to allow setting to work. well once restarted all back to original setting i had in bios.

 

Sounds about right. For 450FSB you should definitely try PC8500.

 

its funny you can just tell the CPU will take more but the mem wont play in the same game..lol

here ya go Russ just for you buddy you like these kinda test here.

 

@CincyRob

Good Job got it up to run like a Mopar 383 cuda...lol enjoy




enjoy building

 

Looking good Rob!

Russ

 

A fair while back I used Dual Core Center (by MSI) (The BIOS is a scary thing to OC with at first) the key thing that led me to stop using it was it began to randomly double my FSB.

 

Could be worse, could randomly double your voltage like Gigabyte's Beta BIOS did!

 

Haha I never use Beta BIOS. Only full versions. Last time I tried a beta I was running 4.5GHz @ 1.7v for almost 5 minutes before it crashed. Glad I use a Tuniq Tower so no permanent damage

 

Exactly what happened to me, but without the insane clock speed, so i didn't notice until I happened to open and everest and spot the 65ºC idle temperature.