Over clocking help

[sagala]

Hey I was just wondering if any one could help me overclock my pc. Its a OptiPlex GX260t with a P4 @ 2ghz. Any help could b useful so dont hold back thank you

[Connection]

i don't know much about it, but i know that you have a good chance of overheating and frying the CPU or shorting your PSU for just a couple of mhz of processing speed that you may not even tell the difference from. you need to find software that allows you to tweak things, and you need to know exactly what the limits of your particular system are, and you may need additional cooling or a bigger PSU if your PC is already near it's hardware limits.

 

no matter how successful your overclocking is, it shortens the lifespan of the PCU. kind f like turning up the boost on a turbo car - it's easy horsepower, but it's an easy way to blow up your engine too, and even if you don't, you'll be replacing parts sooner than you would if you had left it alone.

 

i would try browsing some forums dedicated to this sort of thing, where you have a better chance of learning what it is about, how and why to do it, and wether or not it is a good idea for your particular machine. you could eff it up pretty badly if you don't do your research.

 

i just googled "overclock p4 2ghz"

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and

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this one looks like worth your time to read:

http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/di ... 0c-oc.html

[Connection]

well one other result from my first-stab-at-googling looks like you can overclock that processor to 2.3ghz for a nominal gain in speed, and that it doesn't generate a lot more heat..

 

http://www.ochardware.com/reviews/p4are ... eview.html

 

 

reading through my posts i guess you can see that i've learned stuff just in few minutes i took to make a post saying that i didn't know anything about overclocking..

 

.. so maybe what i am saying is that i can't tell you how to overclock your PC, but i could if i took an hour to search the web, narrow my searches, filter out what is BS and what looks like i could trust it, gather information and read up on things, then in an hour from now i COULD tell you how to overclock your computer.

 

you could do the same thing -- if you set at it and had good strategies for gathering info in an hour you would answer your own question. it might take you 2 weeks of going back to the forum and seeing if someone else had done all the research for you, and you may never get a response. especially not posting on a forum dedicated to an old video game.

 

but if you did your own research, you could know all you need to know by the end of the night. see, most people don't know this, but the internet is good for more than porn and stealing music. there's a lot out there. you just have to know how to look and how to recognize it when you see it.

 

you don't need to know how to overclock your PC dude -- you need to know how to LEARN, that's all.

 

buen suerte!

[sagala]

Thanx for the reply I should have specified if any one knows a very good program that could help. I have Googled overclocking and what not and i have read up on it but im sure that some one has done it here and can give me som pointers.

 

I payed 50 bucks for this pc so idc if i burn it out tbh, but thanks for the warning

[die]

I had a desktop which I overclocked with a simple adjustment to the BIOS settings (no special software was required... just had to press some F-key upon boot-up). Before doing this, I installed an additional fan to mitigate any additional heat. Now I'm using a laptop so I wouldn't dare overlocking it. In any event, I couldn't really tell the difference once it was overclocked.

 

Die :twisted:

[daredevil]

u need to post u RAM and mobo specs too. Without that its hard to suggest anything.

[The STALKER]

If you have at least 1gig up to ddr2 ram, youll have to fidddle areound a bit, but use what die said and change the processor bus speed in the bios anywhere up to 2.4 GHz, then ANYTHING over that will fry the processor, believe me, ive tried...

 

Happy fiddling

 

 

BTW die, if you have any large icepacks, wrap one in a thin towel (like a teatowel) then stick it under the notebook when you overclock, ittl give you 4-5 hours of cool overclocking

[die]

Tx for the tip stalker.. hadn't thought about that.

 

Die :twisted:

[The STALKER]

np, its good to know stufff like that, comes in handy sumtimes

[PHANTASM]

Hello,

 

I am a tweaker. Here is what I recommend:

 

Rivatuner for NVIDEA cards.

ATITool for ATI cards.

 

 

I have two PCs that I overclock. I use Rivatuner on my NVIDEA graphics card, and I use ATI Tool on the other PC which has an ATI graphics card. With the ATI Tool I can play Call Of Duty 4 on my 64MB ATI card in a Gateway laptop that has an AMD Sempron (P.O.S.) chipset.

 

With the Rivatuner I can play most games on my 2002 Sony VAIO with a 256MB NVIDEA card. It has a 133MHz front side bus, which is painfully slow nowadays, so I use Rivatuner more to speed up the Core speed rather then the graphics card speed.

 

PHANTASM

[PHANTASM]

BTW if you want Rivatuner or ATITool just post or send me your email addy and I can send it to you. Both are 1-2 MB freeware and pretty easy to use.

PHANTASM

[NoGooD]

I don't have time atm to get into a detailed explanation on OCing, but of course there are a ton of great websites out there that can get more detailed than you ever wanted to. As with any OEM product, the optiplex's biggest problem to OCing is the BIOS. Also if you get should, or any reason have to purchase a power supply unit (I know 2 ppl with this computer that had the PSU die on them after a fan failure), remember you can't just purchase one off the shelf of your local Frys electronics or Newegg.

 

Most Dells use Power supplys that are either use non-standard voltages (I think this was from the late 90's to 2000, 2001) or they use a non-standard pin configuration. This is probably the best place to buy a replacement powersupply. http://www.pcpower.com/Dell/OptiPlex/Op ... GX260.html

 

I don't work for these guys or anything, but they make solid power supplys. Hopefully just save someone else the problem one of my buddies had when he replaced his power supply and ::Poof!:: the motherboard went up in smoke. It was like a 4 capacitor salute according to him.

 

All second Nvidia Rivatuner and ATI tool..two good products.

 

GL on your OCing man. Keep a watchful eye on the temps.