Ian's getting a new rig!

[ctjoyce]

Well thats an idea, but the reality is that your bound to have some sort of leak somewhere along the line. Hose clamps loosen, barbs get dull, pumps get old. It happens, and is all part of the circle of life.

Cheers
Cameron

[richardd43]

Actually the Opteron chips (165, 170, 175) are dual core 939 pin chips.

The dual core AMD chips, in stock form, run extremely cool and work just fine on stock cooling.

With Vista coming out this year I would go with the dual core to be as current as possible at the end of the year.

My 4400 will clock to 2.4G on stock air but requires some serious help at 2.6G.

I am not an overclocker but had to give it a shot to see what would happen. My 4400 is in my work computer and running at stock speeds now.

I also agree with buying the fastest chip you can afford. Water cooling or an expensive add on cooler has no appeal to me.

For bragging rights I can understand the extreme overclockers desire to get the most out of their systems. But as a simmer and gamer I find the 3500 at stock speed in this computer does everything I ask of it.

I am going to replace my current MSI board soon and will also upgrade the chip to a 4400 to deal with Vista and FSX.

[congo]

[quote]As inexpensive (considering how powerful they've become) as CPUs are nowadays.. I've wondered if overclocking is worth the time and risk. I mean..

[luke]

WOOOW Congo,
do you thing I would benefit with any overlocking you may wish to advise me on?, especially the single click type, as you gathered I am pretty dim on these thing.
Thanx       luke.

[ctjoyce]

well you would definately benifit from the overclock. You do so in the bios (its not a click in windows ) Anyway you probibly should try a 2.2GHz clock to start with, then go from there.

Cheers
Cameron

[luke]

Thanx,
to show my ignorance for starters, my cpu 3500+ is reported as 2.2ghz.

And what do you mean "...try a 2.2GHz clock to start with......" ?

Be more explicid, idiots's approach to it.

[ctjoyce]

Sorry I thought that you had a 1.8Ghz chip. Then a 2.6Ghz should be a good start. You figure out how much you get by multiplying your clock generator by the CPU multiplyer. So my BIOS says that I'm useing a 225Mhz core clock and my multiplyer is at 17 so I get a clock of 3825Mhz or 3.825Ghz

Cheers
Cameron