The Official OC (OverClocking) Thread!

ok u can email me...the music...at pcc900@hotmail.com...thnx

 

I wouldn't be without my sound card. Sounds so much better than onboard and it was only £17! Plus it allows me to use 5.1 and have headphones attached at the same time. Onboard audio only usually has three ports so you have to swap cables. My little SB Audigy SE 7.1 is plenty good enough to sound perfect even on a 300W RMS system like mine.
Good stuff marsey, shows how well they perform!
The XMS2 is premium grade RAM, just make sure you get low timings.

 

oh ok...premium RAM...low clockspeed...on one of my computer mags this ram scored 93%...yes sound card is important...some games need 24bit to get the best sound...

 

that and EAX, which are both features my £17 card has. To be fair the software's pretty dire on Creative cards, but nonetheless, it proves you can get a fairly decent card for very little above integrated.

 

@herrick
this is the place for this kind of stuff. looking at your sig you should get a nice oc as they are all quality componants. an exact figure is hard to predict, but anything from 10% to 25% will be possible.

 

Thanks I will be back- I have that cooler on my list to get- someone told me about it months ago in a thread-thanks again...Need a sound card first, this on board sucks thinking of getting sound blaster X-Fi Fatal 1 ty w/ the extra ram- again thanks I will come back when I am ready!

 

You can do, but seriously for games and such I see no advantage to one of those over a card like mine. Only in apps like FLStudio can I see that much CPU and RAM on a sound card being necessary.

 

herrick,
This is the cooler for all my AMD socket 939 builds!
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16835185125
It's on sale too for $17! I may pick up a couple for future at that price!

Happy Computering,
theone

 

GTR35,
Empty some of your mailbox. It's too full to accept the e-mail!

Theone

 

no ways...i've only used 1% of the space out of 1000mb

 

your account might have a limit for an attachment
@russ
can you rar it and send it in parts?

@gtr
can you unrar it?

 

I think hotmail has a 10MB limit on attached files. Try a multipart archive in winRAR.
If someone doesn't have winrar:
http://www.rarlab.com/rar/wrar361.exe

 

of course i hav RAR...i'm a gamer...and sometimes need to unrar files that my friend send me...

 

LOL! Amen to that brother! I wouldn't throw stuff like that around too much in here though...

 

hahaha...thnx for telling me that...

 

Yeah you have to be a bit careful about openly admitting you use pirate software...

 

hmm...only some...not all...

 

marsey99,

I have WinRAR but all I've ever done is uncompress files with it. I'll have to figure out how to do it. I was able to figure out how to compress it but it doesn't compress very well to begin with. Any hints on how to do it??

Hey Sam,
I finally got another customer build! How's this sound? Cooler Master Cavalier CAV3 case, Asus A8N VM MB, A64 4000+, Arctic Freezer 64, 1GB PNY Optima PC3200, Seagate Barracuda 160 S-ata, Asus 16x DVD Rom, NEC 18x DVD Burner with an Ultra 500 Watt PS. Cost was $524.36, including tax and shipping! I bought Silver drives to match the silver of the case. I'm gonna have to chain it down as she is used to a 1.4 Celeron in a 5 year old e-Machine! It won't be OC'd, but I'm going to fool around with it abit and see what it will do! I also ordered me a Seagate Barracuda 160 3.0 S-ata drive for my D-940 and some more memory for my buddy for the Prescott!

Happy Computering,
theone

 

A 4000+? Last count I thought Dual cores were cheaper than that... Maybe I'm wrong, but if an X2 3800+ would be cheaper, I'd go with one of those...
other than that looks fine.
With winrar, add to archive, then on the bottom left "split to volumes, bytes" and set the number of bytes you want each part to use. For emails I often use 5,000,000.

 

damn...that wat i was gonna say...