Anyone done any lately? What happened to it?

just thought to myself as I browsed these forums this morning, tis what originally brought many of the old timers together, and it bearly gets a mention anymore.

There was a time when people used to buy a CPU specifically for its overclock capabilitys. The likes of the Barton 2500, the 1700DLT3C, Durons 600 through 800 and the old classic Celery 300a. Does that happen anymore (not that I can afford to replace my DLT3Cs you understand).

Sorry, guess Im just being nostalgic for the old days. Its a mood Ive been in recently.

These days though who really needs to overclock? Hardware is such high performance now its often not necessary, the scale of the hardware is just so massive than perceived increases in performance are negligible. Its still fun for the hardcore I guess, old timers like myself have given up on it all. These days I just want a quiet, reliable and stable rig. Ive got two out of three so far, I cant afford quiet just yet.

yeah pretty much exactly as clockd said.

These days the hardwares more than up to the tasks you set it so I just went apple and gave up on my PC sat under my desk.  To overclock you need small amounts (2x512MB) of very fast ram.  You get more performance now out of 2 gig+ of ram which you cant really overclock as well.

For the record though.  This is supposedly the best clocker on the market right now.  $80 blowing everything else out of the water.  Budget duel core which somehow clocks way over 3.5GHz on air and 4.1GHz on water.
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/

Quote from: Clockd 0NeThese days though who really needs to overclock?

/thinks Nige should change his name to NotClockd0Ne

True, that, that is where I came up with the name I think  

NotClockd0NeLately maybe.

Actually these days Im not even that bothered by the latest all singing graphics cards.

Still using my trusty Radeon 9000 Pro  :mrgreen:

Quote from: SteveFI just went apple and gave up on my PC sat under my desk.  

Steve, have you still just got your ibook or have you got a desktop Mac, now?

Using a mac mini at home (duel core, 2 gig, faster processor) hooked up to a 23" cinema display

Use my 12" ibook on the move.

When a new power mac comes out Ill be replacing my work machine.


Hooked parents up with a mac mini (mum) and a 20" iMac (Dad)


Now you can run both windows and OSX on MAC hardware theres absolutely no need for me to keep PCs.

Quote from: SteveFFor the record though.  This is supposedly the best clocker on the market right now.  $80 blowing everything else out of the water.  Budget duel core which somehow clocks way over 3.5GHz on air and 4.1GHz on water.
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/

Scratch that... The Pentium D 805 used in that link has now been hooked up to some proper cooling and broken the 7GHz barrier...
http://www.pctuner.net/php/Articoli/Articolo.php?PAG=1&id=393&access=&lang=eng

That chip is insane!

the only thing i will stress hardware is with rendering 3dsmax.

nothing like spending 8 hours burn time on your cpu.

gotta love uni machines. mmmm dual xeons...

Quote from: SteveF

Quote from: SteveFFor the record though.  This is supposedly the best clocker on the market right now.  $80 blowing everything else out of the water.  Budget duel core which somehow clocks way over 3.5GHz on air and 4.1GHz on water.
http://tomshardware.co.uk/2006/05/10/dual_41_ghz_cores_uk/

Scratch that... The Pentium D 805 used in that link has now been hooked up to some proper cooling and broken the 7GHz barrier...
http://www.pctuner.net/php/Articoli/Articolo.php?PAG=1&id=393&access=&lang=eng

That chip is insane!

How many people are going to use constant liquid nitrogen cooling though? TBH for most people 4Ghz is more than enough.

Unless you are doing something really heavy 2Ghz should be over specifying it, most compys end up doing word processing and similar.

still pretty cool they can make a processor that can physically get signals down a wire at that frequency...  It may not be practical but the fact it can actually do it is amazing.

Raising and lowering all the clock signals in a processor over 7,000,000,000 times a second using silicon is pretty special.  Intel have done a great job on that chip!

Not really tbh Its good on paper but a AMD chip overclocked to 4GHz is faster than a 7GHz Intel.

Intels implementation of dual core is poor compared to AMDs.

but Intel next generation of chips look very promising indeed   and AMD will be playing catch-up for a whille.

I still overclock why have a 300 quid chip when you can have the performance of a 500+ quid chip???

yeah agreed in terms of performance it may not be the best but physically switching a single silicon device on and off at 7GHz is pretty damn difficult let alone making a whole chip run at that speed... for that alone they should be commended.

I just bought components for my PC.  I wanted top end performance but didnt have Ã,£700 for an FX60.

Instead I payed Ã,£250 for an Opteron 165, its dual core, 64 bit and has 2mb L2 cache just like the FX60, its only real difference is that its a 1.8GHz chip, not a 2.6GHz chip.

But as you can imagine Ive overclocked it.  Its aircooled, PC is quiet though as all the fans are slow spinning 120mm ones.  Anyway, give the chip 1.5v instead of 1.35v(default) and bingo, a fully stable 2.7GHz(Faster than an FX60) CPU!

I can play Quake 4 for hours without a single issue. I can run 2 instances of Prime 95 for 8+ hours without error.

The time has come for super fast, overclocked, aircooled yet quiet PCs!

And Im loving it

Mines permanently overclocked.

Currently running my summer overclock. my 2500 mobile @ 2ghz (200x10) 1.45v.
I like my system v.quiet. so i dont push it.