CWBolton PC discussion

[Thor Erik]

I've heard some flashes about 9Ghz on a Xeon(norwegian record, who i think also beat the wr)

But i'd say ~1-1.5 Ghz is a realistic clocking for permanent clocking =P
I know it's possible to clock to any speed, but anything above 5Ghz is so unrealistic you can forget that, 2 in my class are active overclockers(one clocked his NPU, he made it handle 100 mbps to 101, then it blew(no net, poor guy) :P)
One of them's PR is 4.5 Ghz, the other made 7.76 Ghz with freon cooling

[lonewolfxix]

it's a shame the server went down..

?700 you say? you should be able to get a good pc for that but none will really be overclockable except those from enthusiast sellers and the XPS series from Dell.

I can't really promise the overclockability of a PC unless I know exactly what goes into it, which means stuff like alienware and scan, and i know the top of the range dell xps' can (starting from ?999) I can spec one and maybe go as far as coming up and building it (sorry to say, I would have to charge as it's a long way away)

[cwbolton]

yeah well im still thinknig about and my aountie gave me her pc its a dell dimension 2350 do oyu think i can overclock that my I.T teacher says i can download a piece of software for overclocking if i know what my mother board is

[lonewolfxix]

Either your ICT teacher is lying or it can... if you download "CPU-z" from Here then when you've downloaded it, extracted the folder and ran the "cpuz.exe" go to the "about" page on the tab bar and do a "registers dump" then send the file to me by attaching it or - and i doubt it'll be possible - copy and paste it all to me on PM and i'll see if it can actually be overclocked safely. It's best not to overclock turnkey systems and most will be restricted on the BIOS from being overclocked, but it could be worthwhile trying, gathered you don't break it.

[cwbolton]

if i do over clock its got a 1.7ghz hard drive would i be safely able to overclock it to 2 ghz

[lonewolfxix]

you mean 1.7ghz PROCESSOR. It depends, I know processors that can overclock from 2ghz to 3ghz, but it's dependent on a variety of factors.

[cwbolton]

so youve got my spec thing so what do you think

[lonewolfxix]

No.. I haven't got it... maybe you should send it via email.. I'll PM you my email now.

My cousin just bought ?150 worth of PC parts
AMD Athlon64 X2 4000+
1gb of DDR2-667
MSI 690G motherboard (onboard graphics etc)
Seagate 250GB s-ata3G

Pretty decent for ?150

[cwbolton]

yeah well my processer is intel celeron and 1.7ghz would i be able to overclock it to 2 ghz?

[lonewolfxix]

after about 5minutes looking over the key parts for a successful overclocking pc:
CPU
RAM
Motherboard

I reckon that no, you cannot overclock this pc, Here's why:
Motherboard: i845GL - this board can handle max of DDR266 (133fsb memory) you have a 256mb DDR266 DIMM memory module already installed and it won't operate at a higher frequency
Your cpu has a 400fsb which is the max the i845GL can take
If this processor were to be put in a more recent Socket 478 board and new, higher speed ram it would be possible to overclock it to 2ghz successfully, but in it's current state it's not really possible.