What is a successful overclock?

[diurnal]

In yalls experience, what is a successful overclock(stable)?200MHZ,300MHZetc.
Successful without doing a voltage mod, like saudering invovled.
Cause i think i can get 300 more MHZ 1ghz to 1.3.
Is that a successful overclock? Thanks

[Violator]

A 'successful' overclock is where you are running one or more components of your system at a higher speed than normal but the system remains stable.

[[Oc]acaridans]

Its different for every person...Since you want 300 out of your chip, why not make that you goal, and if you can keep total system stability after running many benchmarks and stressing the system to the max, than that would be a successful overclock.

[Luie]

yeah, any thing that's stable

[Mr.Lansing]

A sucessful o/c is when you are running your cpu at an higher speed but stable
no lock-ups!!!

[oc jason]

a 1gig to 1.1gig is a successful overclock, as long as it is stable

[lennytiger]

Originally posted by [OC] Jason
a 1gig to 1.1gig is a successful overclock, as long as it is stable

But if you can get a 1gig to 2gig and its stilll cool and stable thats a pretty damn good overclock!!!!!!!!

[Alex99]

Originally posted by Violator
A 'successful' overclock is where you are running one or more components of your system at a higher speed than normal but the system remains stable.

It is exactly that.

[mEKbOY]

A succesful overclock is when you cpu is running at least 1mhz faster than intended. We may need to make a overclockers dictionary here...Hmmmm:rolleyes:

[[OC]Lucifer]

Anything over default that is 100% stable

[LinkStatic]

what is life's definition of success? Achieving your goals, right?
that applies to o/c'ing too... set a goal... a target speed, then make it as stable as it can be... then that's a successful o/c... :cool:

[Ultra]

Successful overclock = able to run Prime95 torture test at 100% load for at least 10 hours straight without any error.

Most people only run it for about an hour then quit and think that their comp is 100% stable. They never realized that if they've run for about 30-60 minutes longer they would have possibly got an error.

I bet a lot of people here can't even run Prime95 for more than 60 minutes without errors. Just because your comp can run most programs OK and rarely locks up doesn't mean it's stable. Prime95 is the final test.

You can overclock as high as you want. But without passing this test, it's a crappy overclock.

PS: I think I should raise the bar to 24 hours straight of Prime95 w/o errors.

[Violator]

I thought Prime95 only tested the CPU by pure number crunching. A test like 3dMark2001 will stress all crucial components in the PC, and if you can run that successfully a number of times with no crashes/lockups then I consider that stable.

[lennytiger]

bump

yes 2dmark would but if the only thing you've o/ced is the CPU why bother eith the other compnents.

[Luie]

play a game eg max payne (very graphical and heavy loaded) and see if it frezzes or not. frezing means unstable.

[Violator]

yes 2dmark would but if the only thing you've o/ced is the CPU why bother eith the other compnents.

Because if you've overclocked the CPU chances are you've done it by upping the FSB, which will make everything else run faster.

[!-=sky=-!]

Originally posted by luie
play a game eg max payne (very graphical and heavy loaded) and see if it frezzes or not. frezing means unstable.

agrees

[-=UR=- Ranger]

Only one game which runs stable doesn´t mean anything for stability. If any application which ran fine before the overclock doesn´t after, if don´t consider the oc successful.

[Ultra]

You can run 3DMark2001 or games fine even without passing Prime95 test. The opposite is not true.

Conclusion: Prime95 is the total package test. If your comp is stable in Prime95 then it should be stable in everything else, including 3DMark200x (unless your video card is damaged or something).

[tbirdkiri]

ok i topped you all i ran prime 95 for 4 hours. i know i know. but at the same time i ran 3dmark2k1, q3 timedemo1 ecxcessive,
and did my norm.
so im kinda supprised how stable this thing turned out to be.........
acctually when i finnished 3dmark i ***** myself cause it still was a descent score.

[GuNRocK]

also look for the avg overclocks...for AXIA/y 1ghz is 1450mhz u know how some boards dont run at spec asus is a great exapmle they allways have there boards runing a bit fast like 1.5mhz fsb more ...but saying its 133 or 100bus....if u can get 1mhz fsb faster then teh board is at thats successful ...use WCPUID to find out thedefualt stuff

[lennytiger]

AXIAs are the best chips

the new duron with morgan core is nice too

[Luie]

how do you know if you have AXIAs cpu?

[foxmulder]

If you mean by your question what to aim for then I'd say forget Mhz and think in %

20-30% seems to be about average around here. 50% is really good. 100%? Did someone say liquid nitrogen?

[wildone]

Originally posted by luie
how do you know if you have AXIAs cpu?

its on the top of the chip , and if its say , an axia Y it will have a Y as the first letter in the 3rd line.


I still think 3d mark 2k1 is the best stability testr , it test you fsb speed too and if you went to far it lets you know.

wildone

[lennytiger]

wildone, why do u have only 645 posts but you are a seniour member????

[wildone]

Originally posted by lennytiger
wildone, why do u have only 645 posts but you are a seniour member????

its not how many post you have but what you put in the body of the post , there is one person I know of with less post then me that is a senior member.I have done alot of work and everything I could to make the forums a better place for all , but post count has NOTHING to do with you becoming a senior member.

wildone

[lennytiger]

thanx for that info, I never saw anything in the faq page for that so I thought i'd better ask.

[wildone]

Originally posted by lennytiger
thanx for that info, I never saw anything in the faq page for that so I thought i'd better ask.

No problem ,never hesitate to ask anyone about anything here :)

wildone

[Luie]

really? I thought posts make senior member...opps...from now on, i'll not post anything stupid... =P

btw, thanks wildone.

sorry, i still have some questions...
"What is the difference in having a different AXIA cpu letter?"

[wildone]

well here is the code of my chip ,this will make it a little easier to explain , on the core it will have this

AMD Athlon
A1000AMT3c
AXIA0117EPW
Y6280940058


AMD Athlon<----CPU name (duh)
A1000AMT3c <-------the 1000 is the rated speed,the c =266fsb
AXIA0117EPW <-----there is the axia,01 means made 2001, 17 means it was manufactered the 17 week of that year
Y6280940058<-----This is where you get the letter Y , most have numbers and not letters ,I have heard letters do better then numbers,hope this helps.

[Luie]

Thanks very much, wildone. :D
This clears up lots of my questions.

btw, I've still got a question:
On the 4th line,
My friend got an R and I saw someone's sig have a 9 and you have a Y.
What the difference? Anything specially good if you have a special letter or number?

[!-=sky=-!]

Originally posted by luie
Thanks very much, wildone. :D
This clears up lots of my questions.

btw, I've still got a question:
On the 4th line,
My friend got an R and I saw someone's sig have a 9 and you have a Y.
What the difference? Anything specially good if you have a special letter or number?


it's just soemthing like stepping again........

some are better than others, Y is the best

then you get all these things to come after......i have a ayhja-k
i mean by like thrid line i have a k

[Luie]

Ok, so stepping Y is the best. Is there any reason why it is the best? What does the letter represent?

Sorry, for asking for so much...