Sabretooth Posted October 22, 2006 Share Posted October 22, 2006 I once tried overclocking my nVidia Card with the coolbits thing, for gaming performance. Turns out, it probably fried my motherboard and I started having irritating blank-outs, hang-ups and restarts since. I had to get my motherboard fixed to solve the problem. Since then I've never gone two clicks near that overclocker... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alegis Posted October 29, 2006 Share Posted October 29, 2006 I'm not overclocking, no need to atm with this system. However I plan to should the time come soon that I need that little extra boost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalcProgrammer1 Posted November 16, 2006 Share Posted November 16, 2006 Well, I no longer have to live with that stupid MX420...got myself a RadeonX1600Pro 512MB AGP4X card and it's great! Probably stupid to oc this thing though cause the chip's already too fast for the AGP bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SpaceAlex Posted November 17, 2006 Share Posted November 17, 2006 I can sucessfuly OC my X2 4400+ to 3 Ghz, which means it's faster than a FX-62 (2.8ghz)... talk about good value. I don't worry about damaging my processor... it's been running at this speed for over a year now, so i belive it feels pretty comfortable running at this speed. As for my graphic card (8800 GTX), i don't think it needs to be overclocked yet... but i can tell you that it runs stable at 660 core (default 585), 2ghz memory (default 1.8). I haven't tried to go higher yet, so i don't know what's the max. it can do yet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jae Onasi Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 Would you overclock on a laptop? Since everything's so little, including the fan(s), I've worried about doing much of anything that would increase heat production. Actually, I probably should just get a new one, since I can't play NWN 2 on mine. You know you're hooked on PC games when you want to buy a laptop geared for gaming. *Jae runs off to the desktop before Jimbo can fight her for some NWN2 time....* Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Q Posted November 20, 2006 Share Posted November 20, 2006 I don't know a lot about laptops, but given the fact that O/Cing uses more power, it would seem that it wouldn't be practical because it would drain the battery that much faster. Out of curiosity, I would enter the BIOS just to check. Since almost all laptops are OEM, I think it would be highly unlikely that you could change any settings there. It's most likely locked like my Dell desktop's BIOS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CalcProgrammer1 Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 I have a mobo from a Dell laptop (a dead one my friend found), the necessary jumpers for OC'ing are absent from what I can tell, and since its dead, I can't access the BIOS. It is a P4 Inspiron mobo, i'm unsure of the model. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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