AMD Overclockers Club

[cdawall]

Originally Posted by Tatty_One

Sounds Ok to me, lets just look at the math, lets say a 4200 x2 owner gets 2.8Gig thats a 600Mhz overclock, 10% would be 220, 15% would be 330 so he would only get one bar?...not so sure that would really work all that well TBH.

Why not just have a bar for every full 100Mhz over stock, no-ones gonna have more than 8 or 9 and that way there is no bias toward stock speeds....pure overclock. If you thought 8 or 9 was too much make it 150 over stock.

thats a great idea it means that i get 4 bars instead of just 1 yeah!!

[Judas]

Originally Posted by Tatty_One

Sounds Ok to me, lets just look at the math, lets say a 4200 x2 owner gets 2.8Gig thats a 600Mhz overclock, 10% would be 220, 15% would be 330 so he would only get one bar?...not so sure that would really work all that well TBH.

Why not just have a bar for every full 100Mhz over stock, no-ones gonna have more than 8 or 9 and that way there is no bias toward stock speeds....pure overclock. If you thought 8 or 9 was too much make it 150 over stock.

Ill second that..sounds like a good solution to me

[stevorob]

A bar for every 100mhz sounds good to me... I'll only top at 6 though

[AthlonX2]

what shall these bars look like?

[Wile E]

Instead of a bar/bars, what about an analog gauge. That way it's always the same size, and we,as a group, can pick however many lines we want, then just use a needle to point at whatever our overclocks are.

[Easy Rhino]

i think i found the perfect speed for my rig. im going to stay at 2.4 ghz. my pc actually performs betters at stock voltages at 2.4 than higher volts at 2.65 and my scores are very similiar since i have to time the ram down so much to get above 2.4. also, since ive been playing oblivion at 2.4 i get a massive performance increase. very very noticable when running at the highest resolution with all the settings put to max. which is nice because the game runs very smooth at 1400x900 with everyone on now!!! . i guess i could go higher but whats the point! 400mhz increase with no effort and no heat increase is the perfect OC in my mind.

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by Easy Rhino

i think i found the perfect speed for my rig. im going to stay at 2.4 ghz. my pc actually performs betters at stock voltages at 2.4 than higher volts at 2.65 and my scores are very similiar since i have to time the ram down so much to get above 2.4. also, since ive been playing oblivion at 2.4 i get a massive performance increase. very very noticable when running at the highest resolution with all the settings put to max. which is nice because the game runs very smooth at 1400x900 with everyone on now!!! . i guess i could go higher but whats the point! 400mhz increase with no effort and no heat increase is the perfect OC in my mind.

Sounds good to me!! At the end of the day overclocking will always be a balancing act and you seem to have a good balance there.

[RickDStik]

Im rock solid now 300x9 at stock voltages. I made the mistake of buying one of the 65w Winsdors, blessing that even with stock cooling at my overclocked speed, its idling in the mid 30s, topping out at 51 under load. Its been a pain to find a stable speed, and overvolting has done nothing to help the overclock. With C1E released earlier this week, maybe when they hit the market Ill take a look though it would seem the game of overclocking is going to change a bit (look at stock speeds on the C1E, they are no longer appearing to be even numbers ... 4000+ is 2.1GHz, 4400+ is 2.3, 4800+ is 2.5, 5000 is 2.6) but Im sure its going to be a month or two before we even see them. Oh well, maybe Ill make it my birthday present to my PC.

[stevorob]

Prices on the new brisbane proccys look good as well... nowhere near as expensive as the c2d.

I will most likely be purchasing one of these when they are released. Yay for late Xmas to myself

[Pepsiaddict]

Originally Posted by stevorob

Prices on the new brisbane proccys look good as well... nowhere near as expensive as the c2d.

I will most likely be purchasing one of these when they are released. Yay for late Xmas to myself

Me too I think

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by Pepsiaddict

Me too I think

What kind of perforamnce we talking here by the way? is this the new AM2+ or whatever they are calling it?

[stevorob]

I don't think it's AM2+ yet.

Hopefully we'll see some nasty overclocking potential with these. I'd also love if they were actually on par with the c2d's performance.

[pt]

Originally Posted by Pepsiaddict

Me too I think

me three
but if i get a job, i will go buy a fx-70+board+more ram

[stevorob]

Wait for AMD to do quad core on the 65nm process

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by stevorob

Wait for AMD to do quad core on the 65nm process

But TBH 4 cores aint gonna run any faster than 2 and there isnt much around app wise that REALLY uses the benefits of 2 all that much still so 4 IMO is a waste of time at the moment. It's one thing that really hacks me off....how long we had dual core now? a year...18 months and still too few games and apps that really use the potential. yep its nice to be able to multitask smoothly and all that but we want dual/quad core physics enhanced games!!!!

[Pepsiaddict]

Originally Posted by Tatty_One

But TBH 4 cores aint gonna run any faster than 2 and there isnt much around app wise that REALLY uses the benefits of 2 all that much still so 4 IMO is a waste of time at the moment. It's one thing that really hacks me off....how long we had dual core now? a year...18 months and still too few games and apps that really use the potential. yep its nice to be able to multitask smoothly and all that but we want dual/quad core physics enhanced games!!!!

Amen to that

[AthlonX2]

.........is it time for a petition?

[Tatty_One]

Originally Posted by AthlonX2

.........is it time for a petition?

Damn right! Just imagine a world with (lets not be greedy here) a dual core 40nm processor stocked at 3Gig capable of an overclock to 5 Gig, coupled with DDR3 Ram thats capable of1600mhz, one core to run the game, the other to just do the physics calculations, the GPU to make it all look pretty at 300FPS for the most intensive gameplay, well in all honesty we might be there in 3 years....ohhhh and all for $100!!!

[Tatty_One]

shit sorry....I just woke up

[Easy Rhino]

Originally Posted by Tatty_One

Damn right! Just imagine a world with (lets not be greedy here) a dual core 40nm processor stocked at 3Gig capable of an overclock to 5 Gig, coupled with DDR3 Ram thats capable of1600mhz, one core to run the game, the other to just do the physics calculations, the GPU to make it all look pretty at 300FPS for the most intensive gameplay, well in all honesty we might be there in 3 years....ohhhh and all for $100!!!

hell id pay 2000 for that if it meant not spending a dime on my pc for a few years

[pt]

Originally Posted by Tatty_One

But TBH 4 cores aint gonna run any faster than 2 and there isnt much around app wise that REALLY uses the benefits of 2 all that much still so 4 IMO is a waste of time at the moment. It's one thing that really hacks me off....how long we had dual core now? a year...18 months and still too few games and apps that really use the potential. yep its nice to be able to multitask smoothly and all that but we want dual/quad core physics enhanced games!!!!

this has been good times for cad, gfx work ppl

[Greek]

does any1 no if sm2 will work on gay vista?

[Greek]

its not great but beta than ma previous ones, did it with one gig of ram (2x512MB) on 333MHZ , surprised why when i gt more ram i get less, ah well, oh and sm2 does work on vista.

[stevorob]

Yeah, it will be nice when games and apps start to fully utilize the dual/quad core technologies.

It'll be there in a few years... but all we can do is wait

[AthlonX2]

what if i dont want to wait...............