View Full Version : Can you overclock a soundcard?
Amarkarian
06-29-05, 06:40 PM
Can you overlock a sound card, will it make a difference, how would you handle cooling?
millhouse
06-29-05, 07:15 PM
i dont know, but it seems pointless to me. :shrug: I dont think they make sound card coolers either.
Amarkarian
06-29-05, 07:23 PM
why would it be pointless? for encoding music it makes alot of sense, pls explain
=ACID RAIN=
06-29-05, 07:32 PM
When's the last time you saw a soundcard lag? :p
hainer36
06-29-05, 07:36 PM
and exactly what would you be overclocking on it? id have to say no chance of that happening
and exactly what would you be overclocking on it? id have to say no chance of that happening
from another audio noob...AKA me:
what exactly does the processing the audio card...isn't that what you would OC?
That'd be pretty sweet to see...
"Yeah...just got my Audigy to hit 4.6Ghz on Peltier..."
Nexus Realized
06-29-05, 08:13 PM
That'd be pretty sweet to see...
"Yeah...just got my Audigy to hit 4.6Ghz on Peltier..."
Audigy2 ZS 7.1 OC'd to 9.1
rogerdugans
06-29-05, 08:16 PM
lol.
Interesting question, and MANY ways of looking at it......
My initial thought:
Yes, and they have been overclocked for years by anyone who has ever run a PCI bus faster than 33mhz.
When you have a PCI card in a PCI slot where the PCI bus is running at 38mhz (before the days of PCI locks) then the card is overclocked. :)
"Back in the day" many expansion cards did not do well on overclocked buses and would cause the system to crash.
As far as getting the sound card to encode/decode faster.....well, not being an audiophile I have never even pondered the question until now....
But it seems to me that if the bus is moving data faster than the card must be processing data faster or else there will be lags and stutters in the playback.
Maybe someone who has a clue can figure out a way to isolate the sound card performance and then test speed in some timed testing.....
I, however, am clueless as to how this could actually be done.
warlock110
06-29-05, 08:22 PM
there's no point, 1 the sound car process sound through it's DAC, this is just a unit doing it's job, the processing power comes from the CPU, and sound doesn't need that much data, you are not limited by the sound card therefore no OC is needed. you don't see people OC their dial up modern either :)
:attn:
http://theblt.com/images/mysoundcard.jpg
Good ol' Photoshop
Nexus Realized
06-29-05, 08:29 PM
lol.
Interesting question, and MANY ways of looking at it......
My initial thought:
Yes, and they have been overclocked for years by anyone who has ever run a PCI bus faster than 33mhz.
When you have a PCI card in a PCI slot where the PCI bus is running at 38mhz (before the days of PCI locks) then the card is overclocked. :)
"Back in the day" many expansion cards did not do well on overclocked buses and would cause the system to crash.
As far as getting the sound card to encode/decode faster.....well, not being an audiophile I have never even pondered the question until now....
But it seems to me that if the bus is moving data faster than the card must be processing data faster or else there will be lags and stutters in the playback.
Maybe someone who has a clue can figure out a way to isolate the sound card performance and then test speed in some timed testing.....
I, however, am clueless as to how this could actually be done.
^^ What he said. Sorry for making jokes, just thought it was a little funny. I'm sure people have had wilder ideas and attempted to overclock their portable paper shredder or some other retarded idea...not that your idea is retarded. :p
warlock110
06-29-05, 08:38 PM
:attn:
http://theblt.com/images/mysoundcard.jpg
Good ol' Photoshop
this dude got soo much time.... :p nice pix though, photoshop can do about anything isn't it..
I'm gonna love the day when we ARE OCing sound cards...it will come
squasher
06-29-05, 09:03 PM
Well AFAIK thats what an amp is for, it makes the output "better". I might be wrong though.
Amarkarian
06-29-05, 10:38 PM
well maybe, but i was thinking on side note that since sound cards have the own cpu cant you just use the main cpu to power the sound card, with hyperthreading or something?
buttonmash
06-29-05, 11:08 PM
7.1@9.1 LOL, thats priceless.
well of course you can... i mean they did it to this modem http://www.subzerotech.com/index/module/sz_articles_display/id/26/page/2 Same thing right?
Lunar_Lamp
06-30-05, 01:52 AM
HAHA!
So it is possible ckj!
sangram
06-30-05, 04:23 AM
It is very much possible, AFAIK. There is a clock that is used for timing the soundcard to keep it in sync with the samplerate of the incoming/outgoing data stream.
The same clock is also used to drive the DSP engine of the soundcard (assuming it has a DSP).
The simplest way would be to change the crystal (all soundcards have one, onboard soundcards sometimes derive the clock from the PCI bus so sometimes people who OC will notice their music speeding up/slowing down. Very flaky clock implementation can also result in system clocks gaining/losing time if not run at default/in-spec frequencies though it is very rare nowadays) but you'll need to be really intimate with the architecture to figure out the new clock divider or your music/audio will always be out of sync (and will thus play faster/slower than ther video or the original piece).
Or you have to be a very smart programmer and write a new driver for it, provided the hardware allows the interface at that level. I bet a lot of people on this board actually know how to do this sort of thing, but NDAs would prevent them from saying how ;)
-maddog-
06-30-05, 03:54 PM
You could oc the output wattage to power speakers directly, though would be 30-600w for standard speakers. 9.1 :shrug: where the heck would you get something encoded in that?
I'm no audiophile either, but all computer speakers are powered speakers. The signal from the soundcard cannot be upped, because the speaker itself is providing the power. I dunno...
Amarkarian
06-30-05, 07:06 PM
that would be really cool if someone could do that, you would have to custom mount a heatsink thought (not using photoshop lol)
-maddog-
07-02-05, 06:11 PM
I mean speakers like you use with your stereo. That modem they overclocked by burning off the resistors which could increases voltage, overclocking it, but it doesn't seam likely it will work without them.
s random
07-02-05, 06:27 PM
id think it'd kill the card kinda like if you push a speaker more then you should its quality is shot
Oh some of these ideas and pics are pretty funny.
neonblingbling
07-03-05, 10:29 PM
I want to oc my 56k modem! Erhm, no one start on that... :p
But I agree with =ACID RAIN=... No lag, no problem.
I always love when people ask about overclocking random parts.... hard drives, sound cards, floppy drives..... the fun never ends.
Benvanz
07-04-05, 12:06 AM
I always love when people ask about overclocking random parts.... hard drives, sound cards, floppy drives..... the fun never ends.
You Said It!
Wouldnt overclocking a hd mean chg the motor to a higher rpm one? Thats a possible overclock isnt it? lol
ghettocomp
07-04-05, 02:28 AM
Heh...
A successfully OC'd Sound Card:
http://members.cox.net/lwcma4/Scard.jpg
subtotal
07-04-05, 03:05 AM
I always love when people ask about overclocking random parts.... hard drives, sound cards, floppy drives..... the fun never ends.
i once asked about overclocking my monitor...
geeze ghettocomp, how often do you change your avatar?
hyperasus
07-04-05, 03:55 AM
LOL....I can see it all now in Stereophile magazine.....Quad Burr-Brown op-amps with silver heatsinks and a Panaflo LOL. Oh how I wish we could up the voltage and add a few heatsinks to a mid range soundcard and WAM BAM audiophile grade Class A sound straight from your computer. Ohhh that would be SWEET.
Most of what an audio chip does is laid in it's hardware design, the instructions it does are very specific and not very common like with a CPU. Plus the Hz bands etc. are fixed so overclocking it isn't going to help very much except maube kill your sound quality.
flamerail
07-04-05, 08:40 AM
Encoding stuff has nothing to do with the soundcard at all......
All the sound card does is play music out....... Nothing more nothing less... it dosnt have a function with the system.
Flewdefur
07-04-05, 02:31 PM
Encoding stuff has nothing to do with the soundcard at all......
All the sound card does is play music out....... Nothing more nothing less... it dosnt have a function with the system.
Thank you for stating this. Encoding audio is not like working on 3d graphics where the gfx card has to render it. Audio encodes are purely a task for the cpu. You can even encode play audio (can't hear it) without a sound card! WOW!
DrSpanky
07-05-05, 08:20 AM
what about overvolting the motor in teh hdd? when i find out what voltage it runs at i play doing it on an old hdd till it dies.
also adding a heatsink do ur sound cards fairly easy do it that same as ur memory on gfx cards :P as5 and super glue, and if that dont hold then tack teh corners of teh heatsink to teh psu with a glue gun to let the pcb take some more of teh strain,
* now in english *
Now wouldn’t it be quite splendid if someone was to increase the voltage to the motor in a harddrive thus trying to enhance its rotary speed thus overclocking said component.
May I add that it is also most easy and quite valuable for heat dissipation to add heatsink to your soundcard, this can be achieved in the same way that you alleviate thermal output emanating from the memory on a graphics card. Might I also add that if you were to use a rather large cooler for heat dissipation purposes it maybe beneficial to operate a glue gun in a fashion that would aid in the retention of said item to the part in question.
also adding a heatsink do ur sound cards fairly easy do it that same as ur memory on gfx cards :P as5 and super glue, and if that dont hold then tack teh corners of teh heatsink to teh psu with a glue gun to let the pcb take some more of teh strain,
WHAT? I'd expect more from a Briton. You people invented the language!
WHAT? I'd expect more from a Briton. You people invented the language!
lol ^^
johan851
07-06-05, 01:45 PM
^^ Oh snap.
I mean speakers like you use with your stereo. That modem they overclocked by burning off the resistors which could increases voltage, overclocking it, but it doesn't seam likely it will work without them.
That would basically mean turning the card into an amp...and the only way to power the amp would be through the PCI slot and PSU. You don't want the PSU powering your speakers, and the PCI slot couldn't power it anyway. The circuitry would also have to be huge...that's why they put it all in receivers. :)
As for encoding/decoding speed - that's all CPU related. If you're encoding WAVs to MP3, it's the processor/RAM/HD that are doing all the work, not the sound card itself. The sound card just converts signals and does some minor processing.
DrSpanky
07-06-05, 05:40 PM
WHAT? I'd expect more from a Briton. You people invented the language!
was very late when i wrote that, dont make sence to me either... and i wrote the damn thing :shrug:
I always love when people ask about overclocking random parts.... hard drives, sound cards, floppy drives..... the fun never ends.
Lol! That's a good one!.
johan851
07-09-05, 01:39 PM
Next, we'll try to put a couple of them in RAID. 48-bit 384KHz in RAID 0, right?
subtotal
07-09-05, 03:35 PM
Next, we'll try to put a couple of them in RAID. 48-bit 384KHz in RAID 0, right?
yeahh, maybe if i put my monitors in raid0 i can get higher FPS in BF2! lol
Cyrix_2k
07-09-05, 04:13 PM
You could upgrade the op-amps & caps if you'd like. I plan on doing this to my SB Live! 5.1 MP3+ later on. Right now, I'm just using the NF7's onboard sound connected to my CMOY (Headphone amplifier). The CMOY is equipped with an OPA2227P op-amp which is fed by a TLE2426 rail-splitter w/ twin 2700uf caps :)
neonblingbling
07-09-05, 04:53 PM
You could upgrade the op-amps & caps if you'd like. I plan on doing this to my SB Live! 5.1 MP3+ later on. Right now, I'm just using the NF7's onboard sound connected to my CMOY (Headphone amplifier). The CMOY is equipped with an OPA2227P op-amp which is fed by a TLE2426 rail-splitter w/ twin 2700uf caps :)
*whosh* :shrug:
But I would like to learn audio stuff one day. In the meanwhile, I'll just pick up a pair of HD280, and plug it into my SB Live! card. :rolleyes:
Cyrix_2k
07-09-05, 06:05 PM
*whosh* :shrug:
But I would like to learn audio stuff one day. In the meanwhile, I'll just pick up a pair of HD280, and plug it into my SB Live! card. :rolleyes:
Don't worry. The op-amps are what amplify the sound and have a big impact on sound quality. Many times manufacturers will save money by using cheap components and that's when you lose details in the sound. My OPA2227 should be a direct replacement for whatever op-amp creative used and hopefully will sound better. The caps can do two different things. When in the signal path, they act as a filter which AFAIK is not desired. When they are used in this manner, it's usually to remove any DC offset that may be present which would otherwise ruin the drivers (it burns them up). The 2700uf caps I referred to are not in the signal path and instead provide the op-amp with power. When a hard bass-hit occurs, the PSU won't be able to immediatly supply enough power, so you lose the impact of the hit. The caps continue to supply power to the op-amp so that bass-hit's sound much better. The rail-splitter I referred to isn't really audio related. The op-amp needs a +4.5v rail & a -4.5v rail. Rather than use a resistor divider which will create the needed rails, but does so in an inaccurate way, (i.e. one rail might be +4v & the other will be -5v.) I used a chip the actively monitors the voltages and creates an exact 50/50 voltage split. It really helps battery life when the CMOY is used with a 9v battery.
goto to head-fi.org if you wish to learn more or less...
BTW, here's my next project. I'll get it put together whenever I have enough money to afford the parts :) http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=14974&item=5788068517&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
The Dynalo is a great amp, surpassed by few. The Dynahi is the be all end all headphone amplifier according to many. It stomps anything - tube or solid state of other designs.
I just finished a Millet Hybrid, sounds great. Outperforms PIMETAs and even competes with PPAs and M3s, and much cheaper!
Overclocking a soundcard eh?
Push the bus up .. but really why do you want to do this lol.
Actually i was wondering if it would increase the signal strength to and from an amplifier.. because i have a fairly long cord stretching from my computer to my amp. Could it increase the signal strength?
Cyrix_2k
07-09-05, 09:35 PM
The Dynalo is a great amp, surpassed by few. The Dynahi is the be all end all headphone amplifier according to many. It stomps anything - tube or solid state of other designs.
I just finished a Millet Hybrid, sounds great. Outperforms PIMETAs and even competes with PPAs and M3s, and much cheaper!
Just saw the Millet Hybrid problem thread on head-fi... I think I might have to build one of those. Tubes rock!
hyperasus
07-10-05, 12:12 AM
I have my computer plugged in to my main stereo so I hear all the imperfections that come from my computer soundcard.(especially the worthless onboard sound that is just awful). I have tried every sound card under the sun and couldn’t find anything I was pleased with. I finally found this little beauty here (http://www.headphone.com/products/headphone-amps/headroom-amps/the-mobile-line/headroom-total-bithead.php) . Too most that will seem ridiculously expensive but the sound on that little guy is very clean. If you are desperate for some clean sound from your computer and don’t need an input then it works better than anything I have ever seen. If there is a way to get better sound from a computer then I would love to know about it.
Lonew0lf
07-11-05, 03:48 PM
Wouldn't OC'ing a soundcard give a 'chipmonks' sound?? everything speeded up?
Dell_Axim
07-11-05, 10:08 PM
I have an old tape deck that can be overclocked (to speed up copying of tapes), and the sound does speed up.
primuslesler
07-12-05, 05:45 PM
If they had a place for hilarious sticky threads by god this one would be right there in the stickies all i have to say is LMFAO!!
I not going to OC my soundcard until Dangerden makes a silver based waterblock with 1" ID fitting, and a 3 horsepower pump. WCed to the maxx. or maybe a chiller.
flamerail
07-13-05, 07:50 PM
Overclock a floppy drive. Now that sounds like fun. :clap:
Hell lets overclock a ribbon cable to while were at it! OH OH! Maybe even a mouse lets overclock the mouse! :burn:
neonblingbling
07-13-05, 07:57 PM
Hell lets overclock a ribbon cable to while were at it! OH OH! Maybe even a mouse lets overclock the mouse! :burn:
Control panel -> Mouse -> Pointer options -> Pointer Speed. :santa:
subtotal
07-14-05, 02:12 AM
Overclock a floppy drive. Now that sounds like fun. :clap:
Hell lets overclock a ribbon cable to while were at it! OH OH! Maybe even a mouse lets overclock the mouse! :burn:
yeah, maybe if i go vapochill i can get my mx510 to outperform a mx518... lol :beer:
overclock your case :) .. no idea how thats gonna work? put it on a skateboard and push it down a hill?
Cyrix_2k
07-14-05, 11:31 AM
You can overclock a PS2 mouse by increasing the polling rate.
DrSpanky
07-14-05, 01:49 PM
You can overclock a PS2 mouse by increasing the polling rate.
got a guide on how to do that?
flamerail
07-14-05, 03:02 PM
Hook a 2Hp 2350rpm Baldor Motor to a floppy drive. Wow talk about a sweet sound that would make if it tryed to read it ROFL!
Cyrix_2k
07-14-05, 03:12 PM
got a guide on how to do that?
no, you just use a program to do it. Something should come up if you google it.
Under Mouse Properties, Hardware tab > properties > advanced settings.
set sample rate to 200, reports/second,
set Input Buffer Length to 300 packets.
voala, you have an overclocked mouse.
neonblingbling
07-19-05, 01:05 AM
On the note of motors and mice, you could put a high RPM motor on a mouse wheel for like CS or something where scroll = shoot.
Hook a 2Hp 2350rpm Baldor Motor to a floppy drive. Wow talk about a sweet sound that would make if it tryed to read it ROFL!
Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet.
flamerail
07-19-05, 05:55 AM
Hook a 2Hp 2350rpm Baldor Motor to a floppy drive. Wow talk about a sweet sound that would make if it tryed to read it ROFL!
You stupid **** its 3450!
:)
On the note of motors and mice, you could put a high RPM motor on a mouse wheel for like CS or something where scroll = shoot.
That would pwn!
LoneWolf121188
07-19-05, 04:29 PM
Wait a sec...to get back on topic, am I missing something here or have all of you never used a program like SONAR? I was under the impression that high end soundcards (Audigy line and up) have an onboard "CPU" of sorts that does all the audio related stuff (encoding, playback, etc). I mean, If I get more than 4 or so tracks in SONAR, it will lag up on me once in a while, and I thought it was because the Audigy couldn't keep up. In this kind of situation, wouldn't OCing help?
sangram
07-20-05, 03:32 AM
Wait a sec...to get back on topic, am I missing something here or have all of you never used a program like SONAR? I was under the impression that high end soundcards (Audigy line and up) have an onboard "CPU" of sorts that does all the audio related stuff (encoding, playback, etc). I mean, If I get more than 4 or so tracks in SONAR, it will lag up on me once in a while, and I thought it was because the Audigy couldn't keep up. In this kind of situation, wouldn't OCing help?
No. The soundcard is designed with a certain i/o latency in mind. With Creative soundcards, a 30 mS latency is fine because it's not meant for live studio work. Pro cards are designed for much lower latencies (3-6 ms) and thus are able to handle multiple tracks without lag.
Clock generator frequencies don't help latencies, AFAIK.
Fulvian
07-20-05, 05:08 AM
anyone tell me how to do this
http://img242.echo.cx/img242/3425/modem4kp.jpg
sangram
07-20-05, 09:46 AM
Photoshop?
JackFlak
07-21-05, 11:43 PM
If you overclocked your soundcard it would be hella loud.
LOL!
:)
anyone tell me how to do this
http://img242.echo.cx/img242/3425/modem4kp.jpg
No. Just no. This thread should be closed due to stupidity.
No. Just no. This thread should be closed due to stupidity.
I think this thread is a symbol of who we are... :rolleyes:
-maddog-
07-23-05, 02:58 PM
Technicly you can only overclock something that has a clock so it clock speed can be increased. Fulvian a faster modem will not give you signifcantly faster internet unless you get a faster service and that phot is abviously cheaply photoshopped since the fan doesn't cast a shaddow.
Fathom1990
07-23-05, 03:15 PM
About sound cards, I heard that there's a driver hack that turns an Audigy 1 or an SB Live into an Audigy 2.
DrSpanky
07-23-05, 07:22 PM
isnt thats a driver mod an it just gives the older cards some abilitys of the Audigy 2, like eax HD advance or what ever its called but on a sb live 5.1 it reduces the output volume of the cards also :S
Cap'n Pedro
07-27-05, 09:08 AM
IMO, you can OC anything. I once OC'd an electric toothbrush....
It hurt like hell to brush my teeth and my gums got cut up pretty badly but it sure saved me some time in the mornings!
I think they did it on The Screensavers a while back...
-maddog-
07-27-05, 11:13 AM
Any true overclockers here?
Try your microwave. You won't be a overclocker for long. :D
>HyperlogiK<
07-27-05, 03:16 PM
hmm i wonder if on a dry day you could use a modded microwave oven as a 'gun' to shoot birds off the roof of the house next door ;)
petteyg359
07-27-05, 04:04 PM
Um... there've been plenty of "unpowered" computer speakers. Remember the old SoundBlasters with a volume-control wheel on the back? My old 386 had a ThunderBoard and the speakers on it were "unpowered", only +/- wires for input on them.
Cap'n Pedro
07-27-05, 04:44 PM
Speaking of microwaves (http://news.com.com/Riot+control+ray+gun+worries+scientists/2100-7337_3-5796749.html?tag=nefd.top)
jaigandhi5
07-27-05, 06:54 PM
LOL
great thread!!
RJARRRPCGP
09-21-05, 01:51 AM
there's no point, 1 the sound car process sound through it's DAC, this is just a unit doing it's job, the processing power comes from the CPU, and sound doesn't need that much data, you are not limited by the sound card therefore no OC is needed. you don't see people OC their dial up modern either :)
Aren't they like a 56k modem, the least expensive ones use the CPU to do most of the work while the high end ones often have a dedicated processor?
Holy thread resurrection, Batman!
LoneWolf121188
09-21-05, 05:07 PM
oh, cmon, it was only 2 months old, not even...
Aren't they like a 56k modem, the least expensive ones use the CPU to do most of the work while the high end ones often have a dedicated processor?
A dedicated modem processor? rolf :D !
Yes, higher end soundcards have an onboard proc wheras the lower ones shove everything to the CPU, but an onboard proc for a modem??? :D :D
>HyperlogiK<
09-22-05, 08:45 AM
Aren't they like a 56k modem, the least expensive ones use the CPU to do most of the work while the high end ones often have a dedicated processor?
well it is kinda true actually, winmodems and the like don't have a proper controller chip, they do all the error correction, compression, and stuff in software, so the dedicated hardware modems have a lower cpu overhead. only thing is that the overheads for a 56k modem are so small that this is negligible for a modern pc, but it was more of a thing back in the old pentium 1/K6 days.
well it is kinda true actually, winmodems and the like don't have a proper controller chip, they do all the error correction, compression, and stuff in software, so the dedicated hardware modems have a lower cpu overhead. only thing is that the overheads for a 56k modem are so small that this is negligible for a modern pc, but it was more of a thing back in the old pentium 1/K6 days.
Well a dedicated modem is a few bucks more expensive then a winmodem so it's usually one of the parts where pc builders cut corners. Watch for it when buying a modem.
Though, nowadays, most people have broadband. So i't isn't much of a problem anymore.
Fangs404
09-22-05, 05:10 PM
I have to admit that this is the first OC forums post I've ever read and laughed out loud at. Job well done.
This reminds me of the things my friends and I joke about - overclocking brooms and books and cd players and stuff. Too great. :D
Amarkarian
09-22-05, 06:59 PM
boy, such a simple question so many answers!
sonicdrive
09-22-05, 08:46 PM
When's the last time you saw a soundcard lag? :p
good point
>HyperlogiK<
09-23-05, 03:31 PM
surely 'heard'
flamerail
09-25-05, 07:36 AM
anyone tell me how to do this
http://img242.echo.cx/img242/3425/modem4kp.jpg
LOL nice!
-maddog-
10-05-05, 02:59 PM
overclock
/oh'vr-klok'/ vt. To operate a CPU or other digital
logic device at a rate higher than it was designed for, under the
assumption that the manufacturer put some slop into the
specification to account for manufacturing tolerances. Overclocking
something can result in intermittent crashes, and can even burn
things out, since power dissipation is directly proportional to
clock frequency. People who make a hobby of this are sometimes
called "overclockers"; they are thrilled that they can run their
450MHz CPU at 500MHz, even though they can only tell the difference
by running a benchmark program.
If it has a microprocessor you can overclock ie; your oven ,microwave, kids toys, etc. :cool:
johan851
10-05-05, 06:11 PM
How negative. Where's that from?
deathBOB
10-06-05, 12:55 AM
Can I overlock my floppy to burn DVD-R?
>HyperlogiK<
10-06-05, 05:16 AM
Can I overlock my floppy to burn DVD-R?
actually, i remember a few years ago there was some 'kit' being sold on the net for about £40 that claimed to let you burn DVD+R discs on any CD-R drive, it was being advertised on all those sites like 'gamecopyworld'. maybe by burned, it just meant that the laser overheated and you melted the disc :)
Enablingwolf
10-06-05, 05:42 AM
overclock
/oh'vr-klok'/ vt. To operate a CPU or other digital
logic device at a rate higher than it was designed for, under the
assumption that the manufacturer put some slop into the
specification to account for manufacturing tolerances. Overclocking
something can result in intermittent crashes, and can even burn
things out, since power dissipation is directly proportional to
clock frequency. People who make a hobby of this are sometimes
called "overclockers"; they are thrilled that they can run their
450MHz CPU at 500MHz, even though they can only tell the difference
by running a benchmark program.
At first this was making me sad. Then I noticed that my overclock alone excedes the example CPU speed. Even with the overclock. HAHAHAHAHAAAA
-maddog-
10-06-05, 06:24 AM
At first this was making me sad. Then I noticed that my overclock alone excedes the example CPU speed. Even with the overclock. HAHAHAHAHAAAA
I got it from dictionary.com blame them!
actually, i remember a few years ago there was some 'kit' being sold on the net for about £40 that claimed to let you burn DVD+R discs on any CD-R drive, it was being advertised on all those sites like 'gamecopyworld'. maybe by burned, it just meant that the laser overheated and you melted the disc :)
I don't think that it's possible..the laser type is different.
obsolete
10-06-05, 09:40 AM
I've noticed on futuremark that people with the same card as me had support (number wise) for more sounds then mine did. Forgive me for not having a link or somethin, but memory does serve me correct. Could very well be a glitch in futuremark, but it still raised an eyebrow.
threeme2189
10-06-05, 09:48 AM
this thread is t3h m007357 thread alive!!!
(the mootest thread alive for non leet speakers).
subtotal
10-06-05, 09:03 PM
I don't think that it's possible..the laser type is different.
true, but people can convince themselves of some strange and often ridiculous things, i've heard of one person who was convinced that XP let you burn CDs on a CD-R
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