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I hate over-clocking. I could to much better with a dual-processor.

No, I keep it the way it was.

If I change it, I might not remember the origional.

I just leave my computer alone. Last thing I need to do is go around messing with the thing.

No. the last thing I need to do is put my compy at risk for exploding.

That happened once with an ancient TV that was bequeathed to me by one of my college roommates.

I overclocked my computer last night about 50 MHz. I haven't had any troubles yet... We'll see how it does after tonight.

Didymus wrote:

That happened once with an ancient TV that was bequeathed to me by one of my college roommates.

melting TVs? i remember one time the TV repair shop closed down so i went down with a friend and an extension cord and plugged it into the TVs out back. most melted. one of them did explode, which was quite cool. so much fun.
and, i hear PC city have a back alley.

Author:	Sarge [ Wed May 10, 2006 7:14 am ]
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Do you overclock your PC? At home (not at work), I run an ASUS P5AD2-E Premium that has a Pentium 4 540j and an MSI RX800 XL-VT2D256E PCIe video card. Memory is: 4x512MB DDR2-800 Azenram DIMMs, giving me 2GB of total RAM. For add-in cards, there's just a Creative Soundblaster Audigy2 ZS Platinum PCI sound card. There's also a Vantec Spectrun VGA fan card blowing air onto the front of the graphics card, but that thing powers off a Molex pass-through an not the PCI bus so I don't consider it to really be an add-in card even though it does ocupy one of the PCI slots. Case: NZXT Nemesis Elite. (Aluminum full tower ATX case) Case fans: 1x120mm front (air intake), 1x120mm side panel (air intake), 1x120mm rear (air exhaust), 1x80 fan over the PSU's passive exhaust grill (air exhaust). (All fans are transparant plastic with blue LEDs) PSU: CoolerMaster "Real Power 450W" (model number RS-450-ACLX) CPU Cooling provided by: ASUS Stack Cool 2 (Aluminum plate behind the LGA 775 socket, on back side of PCB) and Zalman CNPS7700-AlCu (HSF). Anyways, here's the cooling specs: Stock CPU clock speed: 3.20 GHz CPU Overclocked to: 3.53 GHz CPU Overclocked by: +10% Temps were measured with the Nemesis's built-in thermistor probes and the built-in LCD display. "Idle" is defined as 10 minutes after a cold-boot, loged into a local admin account with the following apps running: Avast antivirus, Sygate Personal Firewall Pro, Logitech SetPoint, ASUS WiFi Controll Center (running in Access Point mode with WPA-PSK/TKIP encription active), and the Creative Volume Control taskbar applet. "Load" is defined as running with all the apps as "idle", plus being thirty minutes into a game of Far Cry. (with the ambient air temperture being 20°C) CPU idle temp: 37°C CPU load temp: 60°C Memory Idle temp: 40°C Memory load temp: 63°C Northbridge idle temp: 36°C Northbridge load temp: 40°C

Author:	ready for prime time [ Wed May 10, 2006 10:37 am ]
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what?

Author:	Sarge [ Wed May 10, 2006 12:13 pm ]
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ready for prime time wrote: what? Heh. Yeah, it's just a little technical.

Author:	ramrod [ Wed May 10, 2006 12:50 pm ]
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I just leave my computer alone. Last thing I need to do is go around messing with the thing.

Author:	Sarge [ Wed May 10, 2006 2:23 pm ]
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Magna Carta wrote: I hate over-clocking. I could to much better with a dual-processor. Yup. And even so MUCH more with an overclocked dual-core. :nod: :nod:

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Author:	Alexander [ Wed May 10, 2006 5:48 pm ]
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I don't touch those sorts of things. The last time I did, my computer went at light speed and had a mind of it's own.

Author:	J-Man [ Wed May 10, 2006 6:02 pm ]
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Nope, don't want to risk anything nor do I want to get sucked into something time-consuming.

Author:	Funkstar [ Wed May 10, 2006 7:12 pm ]
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No, I keep it the way it was. If I change it, I might not remember the origional.

Author:	Sarge [ Wed May 10, 2006 10:51 pm ]
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Funkstar wrote: No, I keep it the way it was. If I change it, I might not remember the origional. The computer will default to the factory specs if you do the correct procedure, which usualy involves pressing a re-set button on the motherboard or setting a jumper, and also sometimes removing and then re-insterting the CMOS (Complemetary Metal-Oxside Silicon) battery (which is, essentaily, a 12v watch battery that's in a pop-out socket on the motherboard). But, since you probably have no idea what a BIOS is either, I understand why you'd not wanna overclock. It's definatly not for the novice pc enthusiast. Technicly, anyone who can change BIOS settings can overclock a PC but the trick is to overclock the machine without rendering it unstable. That's where huge copper heat sinks and the aluminum cases come in. It's cheaper than moding a car, though, and there's no heavy lifting required.

Author:	Acekirby [ Wed May 10, 2006 10:59 pm ]
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No way. My computer is fast enough for my needs. Plus, if I started tinkering around with it, I know I would break something badly.

Author:	Kevin DuBrow [ Thu May 11, 2006 1:55 am ]
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ramrod wrote: I just leave my computer alone. Last thing I need to do is go around messing with the thing. Oh, yeah. Lord knows when I try to make an upgrade, it gets ten times worse than it was.

Author:	Jello B. [ Thu May 11, 2006 2:00 am ]
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No, mine isn't overclocked, although I could probably overclock it a bit, though, since I've got the ultrasupercoolingthingamaboby fan on my processor and a really nice case fan. And it's only 1.6 GHz, so I could use any speed boost I could get. So I will, eventually.

Author:	ready for prime time [ Thu May 11, 2006 9:32 am ]
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ramrod wrote: I just leave my computer alone. Last thing I need to do is go around messing with the thing. i think i will go with that. i don't mess with my computer, but my mom thinks otherwise. i can't wait until i have about $2000

Author:	Badri3211 [ Fri May 12, 2006 12:47 am ]
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No, I leave my CPU at the stock clock speed.

Author:	Sarge [ Fri May 12, 2006 5:20 am ]
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Beyond the Grave wrote: No. the last thing I need to do is put my compy at risk for exploding. Contrary to the public image that TV and hollywood have provided, computers do not actualy explode. In extreme cases, you might have a defective power supply that shorts out and casues an electrical fire, but that's so rare these days that it doesn't even bear mentioning. Even if you started the compter normaly and then removed the heat sink from the CPU, all that would likely happen is that the CPU would overheat and the compter would freeze up and "hang"; in extreme cases it could possibly melt the gold-plated pins in the PGA or LGA socket or fuse together some of the transistors in the core, which would effectively destroy the CPU. There is a famous video of a CPU exploding that's been circulating on the internet, but that video was rigged: The guys who made it put an explosive device under the motherboard and triped it to make it look like the CPU had exploded on it's own. On the other hand, CRT monitors (the ones that have picture tubes like conventional TV sets) can actualy explode if you smash the screen while the unit is powered up. You'd probably have a greater chance if injury from setting off firecrackers than from an exploding CRT, though. It would crackle and melt and spew smoke, but that's about it.

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Author:	Beyond the Grave [ Fri May 12, 2006 12:57 am ]
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No. the last thing I need to do is put my compy at risk for exploding.

Author:	Didymus [ Fri May 12, 2006 5:41 am ]
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That happened once with an ancient TV that was bequeathed to me by one of my college roommates.

Author:	Jello B. [ Fri May 12, 2006 6:20 am ]
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I overclocked my computer last night about 50 MHz. I haven't had any troubles yet... We'll see how it does after tonight.

Author:	ready for prime time [ Fri May 12, 2006 10:17 am ]
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Didymus wrote: That happened once with an ancient TV that was bequeathed to me by one of my college roommates. melting TVs? i remember one time the TV repair shop closed down so i went down with a friend and an extension cord and plugged it into the TVs out back. most melted. one of them did explode, which was quite cool. so much fun. and, i hear PC city have a back alley.

Author:	Sarge [ Fri May 12, 2006 10:23 am ]
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Jello B. wrote: I overclocked my computer last night about 50 MHz. I haven't had any troubles yet... We'll see how it does after tonight. What's your system specs? If you don't know, you can use one of these tools to take a look at your system specs. I'd recomend Everest Free Edition. In the Everest "Menu" tab, click "Computer" and then click "Sensor". That'll show you the temps that any on-board thermistors are registering and their locations. It'll also show you the speed of your fans in PRM, as well as the voltage information for the CPUs and the ATX mains.

Author:	Sarge [ Fri May 12, 2006 10:25 am ]
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ready for prime time wrote: Didymus wrote: That happened once with an ancient TV that was bequeathed to me by one of my college roommates. melting TVs? i remember one time the TV repair shop closed down so i went down with a friend and an extension cord and plugged it into the TVs out back. most melted. one of them did explode, which was quite cool. so much fun. and, i hear PC city have a back alley. Remind me to stay several feet away from you while around electronics.