Help me Overclock

[sidderBrick]

hiya, my specs are as follows:

p4 (519) 3.06gb

1gb (2*512mb) ddr2-533 memory

160 gb 7200 rpm sata hdd

powercolor ati x550 128/256mb ddr memory

gigabyte ga-8i1915 pmd

packard bell imedia 1508/2

thank you :worship:

Can you please help me overclock?

 

[sidderBrick]

thanks

 

[FragTek]

Do you have any experience with your motherboards BIOS?

 

[sidderBrick]

Not really,i cannot change anything in the bios only the date and the time.

I think this applys to most packard bell pc's

 

[WC Annihilus]

You could always try a in-windows oc program like clockgen.

 

[sidderBrick]

thanx

 

[FarFarAway]

Yeah get Clockgen and follow the basic settings in this post: http://www.overclock3d.net/forums/showthread.php?t=175

 

[sidderBrick]

thank you. i was wondering what is the best graphics card i can get, that would not need a power source as i only have a 250w psu i allready have a powercolor x550 that got 4078 on 3dmark03

 

[FarFarAway]

There aren't many decent GFX cards that will work with a 230w PSU mate

You'll either have to bite the bullet and buy a PSU or not

 

[llwyd]

all graphic cards draw power from the motherboard, some however, the more power hungry ones, have their own molex feed. what level of performance you looking for?

edit: kempz beat me, id get a proper PSU if i were you, theyre important especially if your trying to OC

 

[sidderBrick]

ok cheers, will buy a new psu any ideas? (atx)

thank you again.:wavey:

 

[FragTek]

Hyper makes good CHEAP psu's if you're looking to adhere to a strict budget.

 

[llwyd]

depends on your budget but most popular around are probably Hiper and Antech, but OCZ, akasa and most major brands are good, you get what you pay for really

 

[WC Annihilus]

It seems the main favorites for budget are Enermax, Antec (do NOT get the Neo HE models as apparantly they are horrible with high RMA rates), Hiper, lower end FSP/Fortron/Sparkle, 400W Seasonic, and the OCZ Modstream series. High-quality would be higher-end FSP/Fortron/Sparkle, 500-600W Seasonic (these are the QUIET solutions), Tagan, OCZ Powerstream series. Best of the best are Zippy/Emac, PCP&C, and the Silverstone 560W Zeus (Etasis-made OEM server-class, slightly worse than other 2, but better than most). I'm sure there are others that I'm forgetting to mention

 

[FragTek]

For what you've got, almost any good name brand PSU will do. You don't have anything that's going to push a PSU to its limits so you should be fine with just about whatever you find / choose.

 

[sidderBrick]

hi i've just purchased a Q-TEC PSU 650W TRIPLE FAN 24P and i was wondering which is the power connection for the graphics card because i dont think that it has one, if it hasn't is there some kind of adapter???:worship:

 

[llwyd]

what do you mean? does the graphics card have a 4 pin connector on it? if it does, just plug one of the standard molex into it

 

[sidderBrick]

i was thinking of buying a new x1900,and i thought there connection was a three pin??

 

[NickS]

That PSU will explode if use it with anything high end, just to tell you.

Q-Tec is one of the worst PSU brand's out there. I mean, they're at almost rock bottom.

Good luck, but I highly reccomend you stop using it.

Nick

 

[FarFarAway]

Q-Tec - not on Matt's list of PSU's I'd let near my case

Q-Tec - is on Matt's list of PSU's that I'd secretly plant into someone's PC I wouldn't like