- Joined
- Aug 8, 2001
- Location
- New Orleans
I believe I have an illness here. Maybe I can get some advice from some of you.
I've been overclocking my CPU's since my Pentium 166 days. Over the summer I upgraded to the nForce2 platform and got a shiny new 2100+ T-Bred B to play around with. Well it turns out that I didn't get a great stepping. I can run at 2300mhz but it takes a whopping 1.925 volts. That's a lot for a CPU that runs stock at 1.60. And that's only Prime95 stable for 2 hours or so. It seems that I simply have a not so great CPU. 2200mhz is just fine at 1.775v.
Anyway, I have this uncontrollable urge to buy a new CPU, simply to overclock it further. Now I know for the time being that 2200mhz is more than capable. My computing experience really has nothing to do with need, but I digress.
What shall I do? Should I give into the urge and purchase a guaranteed stepping 1800 or 1700? Should I take my chances on a Barton 2500 from Newegg?
Or should I spend the money on something else, like a hard drive to expand my 30GB limit?
What would you all do in my situation? A new hard drive or even a new video card would be more practical. But geeze, overclocking is fun. And the 2.5ghz barrier is calling out to me! Oh what ever shall I do!!!
I've been overclocking my CPU's since my Pentium 166 days. Over the summer I upgraded to the nForce2 platform and got a shiny new 2100+ T-Bred B to play around with. Well it turns out that I didn't get a great stepping. I can run at 2300mhz but it takes a whopping 1.925 volts. That's a lot for a CPU that runs stock at 1.60. And that's only Prime95 stable for 2 hours or so. It seems that I simply have a not so great CPU. 2200mhz is just fine at 1.775v.
Anyway, I have this uncontrollable urge to buy a new CPU, simply to overclock it further. Now I know for the time being that 2200mhz is more than capable. My computing experience really has nothing to do with need, but I digress.
What shall I do? Should I give into the urge and purchase a guaranteed stepping 1800 or 1700? Should I take my chances on a Barton 2500 from Newegg?
Or should I spend the money on something else, like a hard drive to expand my 30GB limit?
What would you all do in my situation? A new hard drive or even a new video card would be more practical. But geeze, overclocking is fun. And the 2.5ghz barrier is calling out to me! Oh what ever shall I do!!!