Can i overclock my computer?

[deepfried]

I dont know you guys opinions on this, but i think they should bring back the old jumper system for OC'ing, i mean it takes a while, but im running a celeron 400 at 550 mhz, imagine what you could get from modern processors..of course using jumpers would mean that you would have to set the cpu up yourself, but surely isnt thwere a way a board can have a bios setup page AND a set of jumpers to do manual overclocking, unless of course this already exists lol

 

[Dav0s]

hmm problem with jumper overclocking is that not all settings "just work" anymore. it depends on all the other compinents on your comp and so odten these jumper methodes would become unstable.

 

[deepfried]

i understand your point, im having to use 133 sdram on the old computer to acheive a stable OC, plus a lare socket a fan and h/s, so i suppose when that computer of mine came out in the neolithic age it wouldnt have been quite so easy to alter

 

[Dav0s]

lol, this is true.

 

[deepfried]

does the celeron have a voltage regulator built in? ive just noticed that in the bios, the v core gets corrected to the right level without me touching the voltage jumpers.

 

[FragTek]

i hate jumpers with fiery passion!

 

[limqareb]

does clockgen kepp the ocing after you restart?

 

[FragTek]

does clockgen kepp the ocing after you restart?

yup.

 

[limqareb]

ok thks fraggy

 

[FragTek]

ok thks fraggy

np

 

[limqareb]

when i restart it keeps it stock frequency s and everytime i do it i have to reset them

when i went over 2.46ghz it got up a blue windoe saying that windows encountered several critical errors and so on help will be repped

 

[limqareb]

this is after o/c

 

[FarFarAway]

this is after o/c

Well if you got a BSOD then you need to give the CPU a little more voltage perhaps and fiddle with RAM timing/voltage?

Not too bad so far tho!!

 

[FragTek]

Bump the voltage a tad more if u can do so safely temp wise.

Also slack up the mem timings a bit as kempez said to see if it lets u get any farther. If not, looks like u've found ur max overclock.

Run SuperPi 32m or P95 Torture Test for a few hours and see if it doesnt error out to make sure that where ur at now is 100% solid.

 

[limqareb]

when i ran super pi 32 m it gave me a bsod but when i ran prime95 good

 

[limqareb]

this is part of a bsod

 

[balilu]

i once had that error on another computer and found it was the ram. i think you should test the ram for errors. just use Memtest86

 

[FragTek]

That error is a whore... Could be the ram, psu, cpu...

 

[limqareb]

ok 10x balilu

 

[limqareb]

That error is a whore... Could be the ram, psu, cpu...

nope it was the ram and is still the ram i am stuck a 2.44ghz because of ram