Any overclockers on here ?

[Gandi699]

I remember when people used to over clock the first generation celeron 300A. That's gotta be 1998 or just after, Jesus I feel old

[Carlvtr88]

I'd used pc as a really young kid but....My own first P.C. had Windows M.E. Truly a bug free O/S.......

[mlawlan69]

I have a gt 530 and I don't game, but it plays crysis 2 maxed which seems to be a good benchmark these days and it cost me fuck all...

Still miss my 8800gt2 though smashed everything I put to it in the 3 years I had it.

[Dave89]

How hard is it overclock your processor? Is it a do it yourself job or is it better to take it to a specialist and have them do it?

Also could some of you guys gimme a good suggestion on a Graphics Card upgrade for my current rig? I have a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT620 at present and its shit, the windows graphics score it gets is shocking so looking to upgrade to something more powerful.

My PC's specs are:
MSI B75MA-E33 Intel® B75 uATX Motherboard
Intel® Core™ i5-3470 Quad Core Processor
8GB DDR3 Ram
1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT620
1TB harddrive

Any help would be great guys!

[MartinObviously]

Originally Posted by Dave89

How hard is it overclock your processor? Is it a do it yourself job or is it better to take it to a specialist and have them do it?

Also could some of you guys gimme a good suggestion on a Graphics Card upgrade for my current rig? I have a 1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT620 at present and its shit, the windows graphics score it gets is shocking so looking to upgrade to something more powerful.

My PC's specs are:
MSI B75MA-E33 Intel® B75 uATX Motherboard
Intel® Core™ i5-3470 Quad Core Processor
8GB DDR3 Ram
1GB NVIDIA GeForce GT620
1TB harddrive

Any help would be great guys!

Usually you overclock from your BIOS, so it depends on the firmware it has.

Access the BIOS by hitting Esc or F2 etc on boot up right after POST bleeps. go around the menus, most have a description at the bottom and you'll see some shit to do with clocks, CPU settings etc.

You go in there and change the mulitplier in small steps. if you do it too much your system will either overheat or be very unstable.

I'm sure there are other ways of overclocking but that's how I'd do it as a basic.

[Carlvtr88]

Yeah... Some BIOS are different Dave99. I suggest first you read on the net and understand what its all about before actually messing with settings.

Thats not demeaning you, I just know people who've changed a setting and immediately after their PC dont boot. Its very easily done.
Some boards will try to boot, if it doesn't work, they'll revert to BIOS defaults so you have a bit more le-way, however if your PC boots with too much CPU voltage you'll have problems.

You wanna look at BCLK and Multiplier ..... Thats if your board words it like this. Sometimes it can say Ratio instead and other variations.

So a BCLK of 160 and a multiplier at 20.0 would be 3200.... I.e 3.2 GHZ. But there is other things to consider like Volts. A CPU can have more voltage than stock, but not too much. Too little and it wont run properly at 3.2ghz. So as stated above, change in little increments.

There are also other things to consider like your RAM speed, volts and latency. You can force your ram to run at 1600Mhz, because even some 1600 modules will only run at 1333Mhz by default.

Edit - Your i5 shoud clock lovely.
Martin is right, do it from the BIOS. You're underselling it mate. Bios is probably the only way you know exactly whats been changed. There are some Auto clock features on boards and also programs that will over clock for you but based on my experience they arent always that great. For instance you may bet BSOD on an intensive program or something. Can be quite random too.

[Saxotim]

CPU - AMD Phenom II 550 x2 BE
Cooler - Titan Fenrir
Mobo - Asus M4A785TD-M EVO
Ram - 4gb G-Skill Ripjaw Blue 1600mhz ddr3
Storage - 500gb seagate barracuda, 500gb samsung spinpoint f3
Graphics - ATi 5770
Case - Antec 300

Clocked from 3.1 to 3.8ghz, was solid 10+ hours in prime95, had to drop to 3.6 last year as stability became a problem.

Need to build a new one tbh, had this 3 years now