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Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 8:28 am
by Bwcad1
Jon wrote:That was obviously a battery that blew up on that one. Not too sure how that has anything to do with OCing your CPU.
i have that same laptop sitting on my floor. i use it as a stool
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2009 11:27 pm
by colemanyoungerinalaska
what kinda overclocks do they tend to do on gaming machines fsb or multiplier?
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 9:53 am
by William from NOLA
Ideally the multiplier, but you can't do that on most chips because the multiplier is locked. FSB is the only other option and that can make the speed jump way up... but also stability down.
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:27 am
by CaptainPioneer
Jon wrote:That was obviously a battery that blew up on that one. Not too sure how that has anything to do with OCing your CPU.
I know Jon, I am just trying to make a point by over exagerating the possible outcomes from OC a CPU... I fried 2 Barton Core processors on my old PC by OC'ing... Granted I did not exactly know what I was doing but still lol...
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 10:33 am
by CaptainPioneer
William from NOLA wrote:Ideally the multiplier, but you can't do that on most chips because the multiplier is locked. FSB is the only other option and that can make the speed jump way up... but also stability down.
Depending on the type of CPU you can unlock the Multiplier...
Almost all chips are locked though... Intel is especially noted for having locked multipliers... Still you can change the chip into an engineering sample if it is an AMD multi-core chip...
FSP is the best way to go if you can't do multiplier... And honestly, I don't ever mess around with multipliers... esp on $400+ chips... Too much of a chance of messing it up...
Posted: Thu Jul 16, 2009 12:30 pm
by Jon
I never understood the whole OC thing to begin with. If you want X amount of processing power, buy that chip, not the slower one. The small steps between grades of chips is usually around $10. Buy the better chip if that is what you need.
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 10:13 am
by William from NOLA
Jon wrote:I never understood the whole OC thing to begin with. If you want X amount of processing power, buy that chip, not the slower one. The small steps between grades of chips is usually around $10. Buy the better chip if that is what you need.
It's all about getting the most out of what you have. It's kinda like making a sealed box ported. It just takes a little work.
Posted: Fri Jul 17, 2009 2:12 pm
by colemanyoungerinalaska
i used to love celerons because of how much i could oc them never did much on any of my amd bartons right now im using a pentium 4 650 socket 775 but its the engineering sample "qdghes" goes up to 3.8 easily with stock cooling
if you want a good cheap laptop try to find a compaq with the dual core amd then ask if you can get the display model look for coupons too ive done it for the last 3 laptops i own and have gotten them all cheap
i wish there were good cheap socket s1 desktop motherboards