Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted February 14, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted February 14, 2005 Great O.C.! You might want to post some PIC's in The Trophy Room Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjs1231 Posted March 28, 2005 Author Share Posted March 28, 2005 well after months of overclocking I have come to a conclusion. nothing seems to be 100 % stable over 400 fsb @ 1t i am formally resigning from overclocking this has been kind of a let down for me. I have spent too much money and its taken way to much of my time and the end results are a bit disapointing. Here is my complete findings. buy a cheap power supply that will pass multimeter testing. based on your wattage needs. motherboard that runs at a 400 fsb at 1-1 a 2 ghz cpu of any kind that will run @ 400 1-1 ddr that will do 5 2 2 2.0 @ 400 and the video card and storage system apropriate for your needs. final statement. overclocking is fun but its only for screen shots. its not for any real usage because of stability issues inheirent with current hardware of our time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corsair Employee RAM GUY Posted March 29, 2005 Corsair Employee Share Posted March 29, 2005 buy a cheap power supply that will pass multimeter testing. Based on your wattage needs. Using an OEM Meter will really not tell you anything, you would need to Oscilloscope to really see a problem with the PSU. Also I would try and relax the timings if you will over clock, stability can be a tricky at times, but running 1T command rate and or the fastest timings does not always give the best performance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjs1231 Posted April 8, 2005 Author Share Posted April 8, 2005 Considering todays software what is more important megahertz or fsb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted April 8, 2005 Share Posted April 8, 2005 That completely depends on the software and what it does exactly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjs1231 Posted May 6, 2005 Author Share Posted May 6, 2005 check this out i been useing a zalman copper/aluminum heat sink for a long time now, the round one with 92 mm fan. I recently took it out and cleaned it all up I heard that some times oil and such sink in to the metal base. and I had noticed that my cpu temps we rising above normal for the last 6 months or so. So turned on a burner on top my oven to the high setting and let it get red hot. So grabbed a pair or vice grips and sat the heatsink on the hot burner. after about 2-5 minutes and after the hs was very hot I saw the most amazing thing happen. in the middle of the hs where you apply the thermal past. a trickle of smoke then.... a pool of clear liquid the size of a nickle come right out of the metal before my eyes , bubbled for a few seconds and totaly evaporated leaving no trace of anything but bare metal. I thought it might have been water but the hs was super hot by then, and water would have evaporated long before that point. I let it cool reapplied arctic ceramique and shazam my temps were like it was brand new and 10-15 degrees F lower than before. this is so far, a unknown effect. I have researched this but have found nothing on this event. I speculate that the liquid was some type of oil that had soaked into the base of the heatsink, but from where it came from or exactly what it was is still unknown. I have since super heated all heatsinks in posession and had similar results with 75 % of them. and my system runs alot cooler all around. cpu chipset gpu hard disks all have lower temps now. note.. the gpu and chipset heat sinks both trickled smoke after 3-5 minutes and after they were completely clean before heating Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wired Posted May 6, 2005 Share Posted May 6, 2005 :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: :eek: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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