What got you into overclocking?

cw823 · 02-27-11, 11:26 AM

now I do it because I'm here. Then (1997ish) I did it because I found it intriguing that you can get more performance for the same dollar

CgS Drone · 02-27-11, 12:23 PM

I had a 3400+ and was gaming back then but was falling behind so I started boosting it up.

Then I needed some advice for settings on a motherboard and a google search led me here where Xoke had me start pushing up that system. After that it was BOBNOVA's fault (non of my own doing) he said I should start benching, What could I do

the force is strong with that one.

Old H-Ware Tech · 03-01-11, 04:26 PM

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Originally Posted by Enablingwolf

What got me into overclocking...
Was watching a guy changing out a clock crystal.

Ahh, the good old days. Do you remember the Z80 chips we replaced intel 8088s with? Things have certainly changed!

Been away from OCing since the late 1980's due to family and other interests. Now I'm retired and I got back into it recently (last month) for fun. It's something I enjoy and a way to feed my competetive nature that doesn't involve racing and sometimes crashing motorcycles at high speed.

Mjolnir · 03-01-11, 04:53 PM

Just cos I've always (Til now) had a slower machine than a lot of my friends and such. I was running a 3500+ single core and decided to try to push it.. To no avail. I quickly learned budget motherboards suck at OC'ing :P. And still didn't learn from this. My motherboard on my X3 720 also sucks at OC'ing, but meh. I just like seeing high numbers in benchs and whatever these days :P. It's not like my i7 is going to be slow at stock, and realistically I won't notice any real-world difference except in a minority of games with it at stock compared to OC.

Still... Having it stable at 4ghz constantly just makes me feel as if the machine is more solid and I'm truly getting what I paid for! :P

DocLiv · 04-06-11, 08:27 AM

3D Mark '99 is what got me started.

goose90proof · 04-08-11, 02:38 PM

I came for the overclocking... I stayed for the folding

Like most people here, I was born into computers.

It's what I know and it's what I work best with.

I have as great a passion for software as I do hardware. My whole life I wanted to build an awesome rig that was worth pushing past factory defined limits and I was finally able to do that late 2010. I saved up for 6 months and put together the build you can now see in my signature. It's not top of the line but it ain't no P4 either.

I <3 OC.com

deathman20 · 04-08-11, 03:02 PM

Hmmm my dad started it with me back in the Citrix processors and early Pentiums.

Really started myself in the Celeron days from the 300Mhz and the 533/566Mhz ones to 850 (can't remember which ones). That started it and college is when it took off when I had income, I was out of the house at school.

Why? Why Not? Really getting a cheaper chip, sure might spend more on better motherboard with good features or better ram, but in the end your getting a product that is faster than any retail item on the market typically for fractions of the price. Pretty hard to look at that and go, yup my $200 chip outperforms a $1000 chip.. really why wouldn't you?

Go go OCing!

zray · 04-11-11, 10:43 PM

hi guys..
the reason is to Power-Up my system as far as it can.want to achieve real perfomance

saint19 · 05-12-11, 12:23 PM

I never thought this but, why? uhmm I hear the term on the Internet and takes my attention for a while.

I'm new on this, but working hard to learn more and do it better. I start with an X4 955 C2 hitting 4GHz for validation only. After that start with the GPU too, always with fear to kill components.

Why I'm do it? It's like an addiction, I paid $200 for my CPU and gives battle to some good Intel CPUs. Free performance for same price, everybody want something free, no?

pbcranium202 · 05-12-11, 12:28 PM

I was on a deployment in the Navy and decided to build a rig for the first time. I utilized these forums quite a bit for HW advice, and as I was perusing the threads I realized that there's no reason NOT to get a little bit extra out of what you're paying for. So I went for it, and I will probably never NOT overclock for as long as I own a computer. In fact, now that I have my i5 2500k, AND finally have everything assembled and have my Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme, I'm about to delve into the depths of SB OC!

Ronbert · 05-12-11, 12:51 PM

My love for electronics has always been there I was (like most people on here) the kid who took things apart to see what made them tick, how they worked. That eventually lead to video games which later at age 7 lead to computers.

Around age 12 my family got a old Pentium II which ran at like 800Mhz or something I don't remember anymore. We got 56k internet and I began google searching and found out there was way to manipulate your pc to go faster for free. Even though I now knew about over clocking it actually took me till age 16-17 to try it and not till last year did I actually LEARN how to do it.

When I saw the results of all my number crunching and head aches of restart, restart again, crash... pull battery, etc. I was hooked. The numbers are what does it for me, seeing all my hard work pay off in an easy to see way.

stool · 05-22-11, 12:39 AM

Back in the 80's, I started learning mostly basic software, then around '91 I had the option to buy an AT PC. Never being satisfied, I added HD space and did my own repairs. Trying to solve a particular problem led me here somewhere around '97-'98, and I got hooked after reading what was potential for the gear at the time. I've spent years and a lot of money doing this stuff, without regret.

jevon · 07-24-11, 09:21 PM

Simming -- FSX and Railworks2 -- and also COD.

My dual-boot 2008 Mac Pro, though heavily beefed up with memory, fast drives and a GTX285, just doesn't cut it for graphic-intensive sims. I checked out custom rig-building sites and was totally floored at the prices, so I decided to dive in and build my own. Just finished spec'ing it, and will probably start ordering components in a few days.

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Originally Posted by DSM4Life

not having a girlfriend.

What he said. Most definitely this was also a big contributor.

- Jev

Psycogeec · 07-24-11, 10:22 PM

more speed for less money. at first it was a pittiance, and a well tuned OS itself had more value. then seeing the leeway that the intel duo stuff had I was back to do it again, and wow!
also that "next from the best" processor at the time, often had the possibility for "as good as" with a $100 savings.

mbentley · 07-25-11, 06:40 AM

i originally came here because my geforce 4 ti 4400 was artifacting pretty badly and was looking for assistance. after reading up a bit, i became more interested in pushing my system as hard as i could.

...i then killed that 4400

Woomack · 07-25-11, 07:00 AM

When I had ~11 yo and I had my 1st 386SX pc I was really curious how turbo button is working. There was switch 16 -> 33MHz ... 2 or 3 years later I found description of jumpers in manual and I made it work @40MHz

... maybe 1 year later I burned my 1st gfx , S3 Trio 1MB and then I learned that too high pci frequency is bad for other devices

... and I had no pc for some months ...

Junior82 · 09-17-11, 01:08 AM

curiosity, the need to tinker with things and push there limits, expand my knowledge base...

Robert17 · 09-17-11, 07:53 AM

I'm re-new at OCing. Years ago I had a Cyrix CPU, a 286 if my memory is good, on a MB that had 44 jumpers to set for various tasks. I'd heat that chip till BSOD in DOS. I blew up that chip. But not the MB. Prior to that I'd built a couple of really fun but under-performing rigs that I didn't know could be OC'd. Over the years I did some light OCs on every system I built as I couldn't afford to keep blowing up chips while trying to feed the family. Daughter married in April this year, all paid for TYVM, and now, finally, it looks like some well neglected hobby time/money is coming back to roost. Let the adventure begin.

jameseboy · 09-17-11, 01:32 PM

My 3800+ was getting old and useless for modern games. Even with a X1950 it wasnt cutting it back in 2008. I started looking into how to improve the system performance. Managed to get it to about 2.3 (stock 2.0) It helped enough that i kept the processor and the mobo. Killed that graphics card by accident on a gpu overclock. ended up with a hd4850 and c2Q which i wanted to push as much as i could. The Q8200 i got to about 2.9. My 4850 ran WAY too hot to OC so i switched to a gtx460 (stock 725Mhz) which i pushed to 875Mhz, now got my SB system, i want to Push it as far as possible. Now ive started, i cant stop. It IS an addiction.

ropey · 09-27-11, 11:23 PM

A desire to have more for less...

The desire continues.... OK, so it costs more to pay less...

02-27-11, 11:26 AM	#21
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02-27-11, 12:23 PM	#22
CgS Drone Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: SLC, UT.	I had a 3400+ and was gaming back then but was falling behind so I started boosting it up. Then I needed some advice for settings on a motherboard and a google search led me here where Xoke had me start pushing up that system. After that it was BOBNOVA's fault (non of my own doing) he said I should start benching, What could I do the force is strong with that one. __________________ C2D E8500/E6300/E6400, Gigabyte EP45-UD3P--------955BE, TA890FXE, Cooler Master GX 750 Noctua D-14, Corsair 750TX---------------------------HAF 932, Cooler Master 212+, Ballistix 6400 4-4-4-12 D9 2x1------------------------Geil Black Dragon (2x2GB) EVGA 8800GTS 512, Raptor 75gb.---------------------9800 GT 512mb, Seagate 500gb >>>>>>>HeatWare<<<<<<<
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03-01-11, 04:53 PM	#24
Mjolnir Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Sydney, Australia	Just cos I've always (Til now) had a slower machine than a lot of my friends and such. I was running a 3500+ single core and decided to try to push it.. To no avail. I quickly learned budget motherboards suck at OC'ing :P. And still didn't learn from this. My motherboard on my X3 720 also sucks at OC'ing, but meh. I just like seeing high numbers in benchs and whatever these days :P. It's not like my i7 is going to be slow at stock, and realistically I won't notice any real-world difference except in a minority of games with it at stock compared to OC. Still... Having it stable at 4ghz constantly just makes me feel as if the machine is more solid and I'm truly getting what I paid for! :P __________________ \m/ OverClockers mATX L33T Club \m/ Motherboard - Asus Maximus Gene V Z77 CPU - i5 2500K @ 4.5ghz 1.3v /w Corsair H60 SE + GT AP-13 /w Scythe Kaze Master Fan Controller (GT AP-13/AP 181) RAM - 8GB G Skill Ripjaws 1600mhz. GPU - Asus GTX 670 DCUII Storage - Samsung 840 Pro 256GB + 2TB Seagate Cuda. Case - Silverstone TJ08-E PSU - Corsair HX650 OS - Windows 7 Ult 64 Peripherals - Leopold FC700R Graphite Brown MX + G500 Mouse Screen(s) - Dell U2711 Audio - Audioengine 5+ + Audioengine D1 + Wharfdale SW150 /w Shure SRH 840 Headphones
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04-06-11, 08:27 AM	#25
DocLiv Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: West Columbia, SC	3D Mark '99 is what got me started. __________________ Folding for Team 32 2010, 2011 Chimp Challenge contributor i7 920@3.8-Asus P6X58D-ECS 250 GTS Heatware
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04-08-11, 02:38 PM	#26
goose90proof Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Deep South	I came for the overclocking... I stayed for the folding Like most people here, I was born into computers. It's what I know and it's what I work best with. I have as great a passion for software as I do hardware. My whole life I wanted to build an awesome rig that was worth pushing past factory defined limits and I was finally able to do that late 2010. I saved up for 6 months and put together the build you can now see in my signature. It's not top of the line but it ain't no P4 either. I <3 OC.com __________________ Gaming/PT Folding: ASRock Z77 Pro4 \|\| Intel i7-3770k (stock atm) \|\| Swiftech H220 (eventually) Crucial Ballistix Sport 2x8GB \|\| Kingwin LZP-850W \|\| SAPPHIRE Vapor-X Radeon HD 7970 3GB Folding: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD4P \|\| Intel i7-950 @ 3.6GHz \|\| Corsair H50 ASUS 6950 (flashed 6970) DCUII \|\| 3 X 2GB Corsair XMS3 DRAM \|\| Corsair CMPSU-750TX
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04-08-11, 03:02 PM	#27
deathman20 High Speed Senior Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Where the Cheese Heads Live	Hmmm my dad started it with me back in the Citrix processors and early Pentiums. Really started myself in the Celeron days from the 300Mhz and the 533/566Mhz ones to 850 (can't remember which ones). That started it and college is when it took off when I had income, I was out of the house at school. Why? Why Not? Really getting a cheaper chip, sure might spend more on better motherboard with good features or better ram, but in the end your getting a product that is faster than any retail item on the market typically for fractions of the price. Pretty hard to look at that and go, yup my $200 chip outperforms a $1000 chip.. really why wouldn't you? Go go OCing! __________________ -=The Gamer=- MSI Z68A-GD65 (G3) \| i5 2500k @ 4.5Ghz \| 1.3875V \| 28C Idle / 65C Load (LinX) 8Gig G.Skill Ripjaw PC3-12800 9-9-9-24 @ 1600Mhz w/ 1.5V \| TR Ultra eXtreme 120 w/ 2 Fans Sapphire 7950 VaporX 1150/1500 w/ 1.2V/1.5V \| 32C Idle / 64C Load \| 2x 128Gig Crucial M4 SSD's BitFenix Shinobi Window Case \| SilverStone DA750 \| Dell 2405FPW 24" Screen -=The Server=- Synology DS1511+ \| Dual Core 1.8Ghz CPU \| 30C Idle / 38C Load 3 Gig PC2-6400 \| 3x Samsung F4 2TB Raid5 \| 2x Samsung F4 2TB Heat
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04-11-11, 10:43 PM	#28
zray New Member Join Date: Apr 2011 Location: Malaysia	hi guys.. the reason is to Power-Up my system as far as it can.want to achieve real perfomance
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05-12-11, 12:23 PM	#29
saint19 Member Join Date: Mar 2011	I never thought this but, why? uhmm I hear the term on the Internet and takes my attention for a while. I'm new on this, but working hard to learn more and do it better. I start with an X4 955 C2 hitting 4GHz for validation only. After that start with the GPU too, always with fear to kill components. Why I'm do it? It's like an addiction, I paid $200 for my CPU and gives battle to some good Intel CPUs. Free performance for same price, everybody want something free, no? __________________ CPU: Phenom II X6 1090T @ 3.8GHz with NB @ 3000MHz both using 1.325V Cooling: EK Supreme HF Full Nickel + MCP655-D5 + MCR320-QP Mobo: Gigabyte 890FXA-UD5 Rev. 2.0 with F4 BIOS GPU: MSI GTX 680 Lightning 2GB RAM: 2x2GB Crucial Ballistix Tracer 1600MHz 8-8-8-21-1T 1.65V SSD: Corsair Force GT 120GB HDD: 2x500GB Itachi 3Gb/s Case: Cooler Master HAF X PSU: Corsair AX1200 Windows 7 Pro x64 Cooler Master CPU Cooler fight : Hyper TX3 Evo vs 212 Evo
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05-12-11, 12:28 PM	#30
pbcranium202 Member Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Virginia Beach, VA	I was on a deployment in the Navy and decided to build a rig for the first time. I utilized these forums quite a bit for HW advice, and as I was perusing the threads I realized that there's no reason NOT to get a little bit extra out of what you're paying for. So I went for it, and I will probably never NOT overclock for as long as I own a computer. In fact, now that I have my i5 2500k, AND finally have everything assembled and have my Tuniq Tower 120 Extreme, I'm about to delve into the depths of SB OC! __________________ ------------------------------------------------ CPU: Intel Core i5 2500K @ 4.6GHz MoBo: Gigabyte GA-P67A-UD3P-B3 RAM: G-Skill Ripjaws 4GB DDR3 1600 GPU: HIS Radeon HD 6850 Case: CoolerMaster HAF 932 Advanced PSU: Corsair HX750 SSD(OS): Intel X25-V 40GB HDD(DATA): WD Caviar Black 640GB 7200RPM Cooling: Tuniq Tower 120Extreme OS: Windows 7 Professional 64-Bit
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05-12-11, 12:51 PM	#31
Ronbert Member Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Wisconsin	My love for electronics has always been there I was (like most people on here) the kid who took things apart to see what made them tick, how they worked. That eventually lead to video games which later at age 7 lead to computers. Around age 12 my family got a old Pentium II which ran at like 800Mhz or something I don't remember anymore. We got 56k internet and I began google searching and found out there was way to manipulate your pc to go faster for free. Even though I now knew about over clocking it actually took me till age 16-17 to try it and not till last year did I actually LEARN how to do it. When I saw the results of all my number crunching and head aches of restart, restart again, crash... pull battery, etc. I was hooked. The numbers are what does it for me, seeing all my hard work pay off in an easy to see way. __________________ AsRock™ Extreme4 Intel™ i5 2500k + 3.3GHz Hyper 212+, Lian-Li Case WD 1TB Caviar Black 7200RPM Windows 7 HB 64x G.Skill™ Ripjaws 2x2GB 1600MHz Lim. Edition Patriots 2x4GB 1600MHz Corsair 850W TX GTX 670 - 2GB HEATWARE
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05-22-11, 12:39 AM	#32
stool Senior Member Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Albany, NY	Back in the 80's, I started learning mostly basic software, then around '91 I had the option to buy an AT PC. Never being satisfied, I added HD space and did my own repairs. Trying to solve a particular problem led me here somewhere around '97-'98, and I got hooked after reading what was potential for the gear at the time. I've spent years and a lot of money doing this stuff, without regret. __________________ My Heatware
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07-24-11, 10:22 PM	#34
Psycogeec Member Join Date: Sep 2006	more speed for less money. at first it was a pittiance, and a well tuned OS itself had more value. then seeing the leeway that the intel duo stuff had I was back to do it again, and wow! also that "next from the best" processor at the time, often had the possibility for "as good as" with a $100 savings.
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07-25-11, 06:40 AM	#35
mbentley Gloriously Lead Overclockix Chief Architect Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: indianapolis, indiana	i originally came here because my geforce 4 ti 4400 was artifacting pretty badly and was looking for assistance. after reading up a bit, i became more interested in pushing my system as hard as i could. ...i then killed that 4400 __________________ intel i5-750 -- msi p55-gd65 -- 4 x 4096mb ddr3 1600 -- msi gtx550 ti cyclone oc 1gb -- antec p182 -- ocz fatal1ty 750w -- win8 x64 intel i5-3330 -- msi z77a-gd65 -- 4 x 8gb ddr3 1600 -- intel hd graphics 2500 -- chieftec bravo ba-01b-b-b -- debian wheezy amd64 forum rules \| overclockix \| overclockers geforce survey \| mbentley.net
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07-25-11, 07:00 AM	#36
Woomack Senior Memory Guru Premium Member #19 Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Poznan, Poland	When I had ~11 yo and I had my 1st 386SX pc I was really curious how turbo button is working. There was switch 16 -> 33MHz ... 2 or 3 years later I found description of jumpers in manual and I made it work @40MHz ... maybe 1 year later I burned my 1st gfx , S3 Trio 1MB and then I learned that too high pci frequency is bad for other devices ... and I had no pc for some months ... __________________ Memory tests and reviews Guides: Ivy Bridge Memory Overclocking Guide, GTX400 Bios Mod, How to fix ME in Z77 Other: Biostar I45@600MHz+ FSB, G.Skill/PSC @1523MHz/AMD, 1539MHz/Intel, P6X58D-E@248bclk
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09-17-11, 01:08 AM	#37
Junior82 Registered Join Date: Sep 2011 Location: Wisconsin	curiosity, the need to tinker with things and push there limits, expand my knowledge base...
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09-17-11, 07:53 AM	#38
Robert17 Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: Republic of Texas	I'm re-new at OCing. Years ago I had a Cyrix CPU, a 286 if my memory is good, on a MB that had 44 jumpers to set for various tasks. I'd heat that chip till BSOD in DOS. I blew up that chip. But not the MB. Prior to that I'd built a couple of really fun but under-performing rigs that I didn't know could be OC'd. Over the years I did some light OCs on every system I built as I couldn't afford to keep blowing up chips while trying to feed the family. Daughter married in April this year, all paid for TYVM, and now, finally, it looks like some well neglected hobby time/money is coming back to roost. Let the adventure begin. __________________ Main rig: MSI Z77 MPower\|\|Intel i7-3770K @4.2GHz\|\|Corsair H60 Antec EA 650w\|\|G.Skill Ripjaws X 2133 x8\|\|Crucial M4 128GB Seagate 1Tb F1 7200 32Mb\|\|Galaxy Geforce 660ti NZXT Phantom Black\|\|fans 1x140, 3x120, 3x200\|\|Asus VN247H-P\|\|Win7 Pro 64-bit You can _____ when pink elephants fly
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09-17-11, 01:32 PM	#39
jameseboy Join Date: Nov 2010 Location: Livingston, Scotland	My 3800+ was getting old and useless for modern games. Even with a X1950 it wasnt cutting it back in 2008. I started looking into how to improve the system performance. Managed to get it to about 2.3 (stock 2.0) It helped enough that i kept the processor and the mobo. Killed that graphics card by accident on a gpu overclock. ended up with a hd4850 and c2Q which i wanted to push as much as i could. The Q8200 i got to about 2.9. My 4850 ran WAY too hot to OC so i switched to a gtx460 (stock 725Mhz) which i pushed to 875Mhz, now got my SB system, i want to Push it as far as possible. Now ive started, i cant stop. It IS an addiction. __________________ Daily Rig // i5 2500K @4.5ghz 1.34v // Asus P8Z68-v Pro // 8GB Corsair Vengeance (2 x 4GB 1600) // H100/CoolerMaster Fans // Samsung BluRay Reader // MSI Power Edition gtx670 oc // 2TB Spinpoint F4 (storage), 750GB Spinpoint F3 (Games & Apps) // Crucial m4 68GB (Boot Win7) // Laptop/HP pavilion DV6 // AMD turion 2.3Ghz // 4GB corsair Vengeance // AMD HD5470 // 500GB Spinpoint M8 // WIN7 LanRig/Personal Server/Htpc // Pentium G850 @ Stock // MSI Z68A-G43 // Corsair XMS3 4Gb 1600Mhz // Stock Cooler // Samsung DVD Writer // MSI Cyclone gtx 460 1Gb // WD Blue & Green 250 GB drives // Open Acrylic Bench/HTPC -- MY OLD CM690 --Super Clean htpc/lan rig/ personal Server [WIP]-- Steam = Jameseboy57 Origin = jameseboy57
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09-27-11, 11:23 PM	#40
ropey Member Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Canada	A desire to have more for less... The desire continues.... OK, so it costs more to pay less... __________________ i7 2600K @ 4.7,P8P67 Pro Rev (3.1) @ B3 (1850) Corsair Modded Graphite 600T Case, 4X 4096 16GB G.SKILL Ripjaws 9-11-9-28, Corsair HX10000, XFX Radeon HD 6950 XXX @ 710/910 My HeatWare Folding@Home Team 32
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