Overclocking & AMD64 stuff

[White Fox]

My son Alec has recently started a forum dedicated to overclocking and AMD64 processors, also 3D modelling and gaming.

If any of you are into this, you might find it helpful.

subculture101.com (http://www.subculture101.com)

I personally don't understand half of it, it must be a subculture or something, or am I too old? :)

note - the users have some very strange signatures compared to here :eek:

WF

[Slime101]

Interesting stuff....i used to do a lot of overclocking and have had various AMD & Intel systems running @ silly speeds :p I even overclocked my dual processor 3D rendering machine, made the frames go quicker on days and days of rendering!!! - That was of course when i didnt work souly on a Laptop, and used to do 3D Modelling!!!!

[P00DLE]

cool site nothing beats a good bit of overclocking i havea video on my other system of some mad swine running a pentium 4 at 5ghz using liquid nitrogen cooling with a temp of -194 c

[Rich_P]

cool site nothing beats a good bit of overclocking ihavea video on my other system of some mad swine running a pentium 4 at5ghz using liquid nitrogen cooling with a temp of -194 c
Isn't that at the point of it likely shattering?

[Slime101]

Isn't that at the point of it likely shattering?


No, they survive (physically anyway), but when overlclocked to such extremes they dont last long - it happens a lot in Japan when they get the latest chip, overlcock the nads off it and it lasts just long enough to boot, or in good cases run a benchmark to prove the speed...the dies!!!

I've seen it done on Processors, chipsets, graphics cards and all sorts, some on their own, some as "cooled combo's" so the chip, chipset and g-card are all supercooled, but they still dont last long!

Voila, good way of spending thousands in seconds, just to say you have.

[P00DLE]

they did it purely to prove it could be done and to set a world record. in reality about a 20% gain is all you can expect to achieve reliably although occasionaly a batch of processors from a specific factory will be much better than others but these tend to get bought up very quick and then re-sell at prices that make it non viable. several years ago there was a batch of pentium 2 400's / 450's i think that could be reliably overclocked to around 1ghz most we ever got out of ours was 750 and this lasted 3 years at this speed before we junked it and upgraded