Insane Overclocks...

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Tue May 11, 2004 6:32 pm

Hey Guys.. Am I the only one who has been to overclockers.com and seen some of the INSANE OCs that people are reporting? I've seen people reporting OCs of up to 4ghz on AMD CPUs.. This seems next to impossible. Is it truly in the cooling? I mean my CPU is stable at 2.2ghz w/an SLK-900A at around 36*C full load. Barton 2500 Unlocked btw.. I don't see how anybody could get this to 3ghz.. I mean my temps aren't what is holding me back granted. I'm using PC3200 Corsair XMS Platinum. It handles well. Maybe I just don't know how to OC lol.. Who knows.. I just thought I would see if anybody understood how people were pulling this off.

eGo

BillyGoat · Post by **BillyGoat** » Tue May 11, 2004 6:56 pm

I have yet to see actual prrof of a athlon xp over 3.1 gigs
and That one was prometia cooled

I think some on the overclockers database are just plain full of shit

P.s.- it all about how much voltage you are willing to put to the chip- as the numbers of watts increases the ammount of cooling it takes to disapate that heat increases as well

b-man1 · Post by **b-man1** » Tue May 11, 2004 6:58 pm

it is most likely just little punks entering false data...much like trolls that just post topics to get a rise out of people.

IF you could get any cpu to 4GHz it would be some insane anti-condensation liquid nitrogen thing...and even then other parts would fail. is there even a mobo that can go that high?

smb · Post by **smb** » Tue May 11, 2004 7:24 pm

Maybe with Liquid Nitrogen, but those are drag race benchmarks.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Tue May 11, 2004 8:33 pm

yea the hell with "drag race" numbers. i want real world numbers. Water cooling is about as exotic as i would go with an every day PC. But luckly the sp97 exists and i can keep on using plain old air.

NascarFool · Post by **NascarFool** » Tue May 11, 2004 9:44 pm

The only overclocks that impress me are the ones that are in everyday use. A one time boot and bench O/C is bull.

Just like my dead XP2500+ rig at 11x210. It impresses me because it has a locked multiplier. It ran 67 days straight on air cooling until the network cable died.

Pretty sad to see a rig get taken down by a wimpy network cable. Tomorrow I will do my best to stop and pick a new cable up, I'm losing folding points while it is down.

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Tue May 11, 2004 10:47 pm

i only have mine at 190. but i still have my ram at CAS 2.

ShibasScotch · Post by **ShibasScotch** » Wed May 12, 2004 12:03 pm

i run my 2400 mobile at 200x11.5 full time, no problems. I can run it at 210x11 without much problem, however if I go any higher than that the coarsiar 3200twin-x plat just flips out for some reason. I just keep it at 200x11.5 cuz of how damn hot it is in the room

5 AMD one 12x14 room, 2 19in monitors 1x15in monitor. you do the temp readings

rogue · Post by **rogue** » Wed May 12, 2004 1:52 pm

Yep, it truly is in the cooling. The more you cool a chip, the faster its transistors can switch on and off = more overclocks. I'm planning on getting a vapor phase-change cooling system in a month or so, probably a Vapochill LS. It should hold my P4 at around -20 or so (@ 4GHz+)

eGoCeNTRoNiX · Post by **eGoCeNTRoNiX** » Wed May 12, 2004 1:57 pm

Originally posted by rogue
Yep, it truly is in the cooling. The more you cool a chip, the faster its transistors can switch on and off = more overclocks. I'm planning on getting a vapor phase-change cooling system in a month or so, probably a Vapochill LS. It should hold my P4 at around -20 or so (@ 4GHz+)

I've been remotely interested in those, but I don't even know what to do with the two Bartons I have running @ 2.2 and 2.3 ghz as it is. lol.. They just fold to their hearts content, but I have yet to do anything else that they've HAD to have all that speed. I also can't justify the powe consumption since I already have 4 computers running in my house as it is.. lol.. The two above, 1xDual Processor, and 1xXP1800+.. So that's actually 5 computers, but only 1 PSU. heh..

But my biggest concern with phase changing is worrying about the condensation. I'm not crazy about water. I do have the setup for a WaterCooling rig and I want to go that way, but I'm making sure I have 0 leaks before I even put it in a case. heh..

GL with it though! eGo

rogue · Post by **rogue** » Wed May 12, 2004 2:51 pm

Originally posted by eGoCeNTRoNiX
I've been remotely interested in those, but I don't even know what to do with the two Bartons I have running @ 2.2 and 2.3 ghz as it is. lol.. They just fold to their hearts content, but I have yet to do anything else that they've HAD to have all that speed. I also can't justify the powe consumption since I already have 4 computers running in my house as it is.. lol.. The two above, 1xDual Processor, and 1xXP1800+.. So that's actually 5 computers, but only 1 PSU. heh.. But my biggest concern with phase changing is worrying about the condensation. I'm not crazy about water. I do have the setup for a WaterCooling rig and I want to go that way, but I'm making sure I have 0 leaks before I even put it in a case. heh.. GL with it though! eGo

Yeah condensation can be a problem, but the big companies usually get around it by including heating pads around the cpu socket to prevent it. I was seriously thinking about water cooling, but I figure its a lot more of a hassle to transport a PC with it, and the performance benefits aren't that much greater than a good air-cooling solution. Thanks for the support though, I might need it (I've had err, bad results with some extreme cooling stuff before

).

Pugsley · Post by **Pugsley** » Wed May 12, 2004 11:00 pm

I might take a HD apart and make a phase cooler outta it. I know somody that made one that had souch a differental it was insane. He alos made a heat pipe that when he heated it with a torch the end it removed so much heat that ice started to from on the end with the torch on it. INSANE!!! the presures were too so it was dangerous.

Karchiveur · Post by **Karchiveur** » Thu May 20, 2004 12:04 am

No way.. those guys don't know what thier doing.. right now i got a 750mhz running @ 4.2ghz...

Yeah.. there' so full of sh!t.. I would need to see it to believe it!

(or maybe they could be using glass mobo's)

canton_kid · Post by **canton_kid** » Tue May 25, 2004 5:15 am

Well I was looking for more like normal overclock specs for a 333fsb 2500XP I want to bump up abit.

Oh well, wrong place for that but since I'm here now

Try amonia cooling. If you make basically a heat pipe with amonia and the ice melter stuff wal-mart sells in the winter you can freeze water, size is the limit. I saw a large unit that would freeze 10 gals of water solid and ran on sun power for heat. Think what a good overclock could do, you could go into the bagged ice biz

auslese248 · Post by **auslese248** » Tue Jun 29, 2004 5:34 pm

my best overclock with stock heatsink nd fan was a 1.7p4 with an msi-combo 645 mobo to 2.59ghz stable