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I have my athlon xp 2200+ overclocked from 1800Mhz to 2258 Mhz, and have seen no loss of performance, or fried my proc, and have had it running strong for 2 years now. I am wanting to know if anyone else here overclocks, and for those of you who don't, was wondering if anyone would like me to post a guide on it.

I don't overclock, mainly because I'm paranoid and afraid I'll fry my processor.

I don't overclock because I'm a little lazy and really can't be bothered learning. Though if I did, I probably wouldn't do it much, I'd be a little paranoid and am hardly complaining about my A64 X2 @ 2200mhz
Ironically, I have a motherboard which is very popular with overclockers as most DFI boards are.

Go ahead and post your guide anyway, theres sure to be someone who would get something out of it. Also, only overclocking your CPU or RAM, graphics, etc. as well?

id be too scared to overclock - id rather just buy a faster processor

Its not hard to overclock, you just do it via bios ;p

I've only overclocked a processor once or twice, with no problems. I generally don't do it because you rarely get a return that's worth the hassle.

I overlocked once, and indeed fried my processor...

I had a lot of fans too. A lot.

That was a lot of money I won't risk shelling out again.

nagual wrote:I have my athlon xp 2200+ overclocked from 1800Mhz to 2258 Mhz, and have seen no loss of performance, or fried my proc, and have had it running strong for 2 years now. I am wanting to know if anyone else here overclocks, and for those of you who don't, was wondering if anyone would like me to post a guide on it.

I've had good results with mildly overclocking some PIII 866 and 1GHZ systems up by a few hundred Mhz. It's definitely hit-or-miss and seems to all depend on how stable the motherboard/power supply is, and whether they were having a good/bad day at the processor factory.

I've had better results from tweaking the bios and tweaking the OS than by overclocking.

To those of you who HAVE successfully overclocked:
what kind of cooling systems did you use?

I don't overclock. There is no reason for me to do so. That few more MHz wouldn't make much of a difference anyway.

Rreason is simple to old CPU only duron 700mhz... And i don;t neet to get at risk and burn out my CPU :-)

I will only overclock windows machines seem to be more stable. Every linux box all two of them that i have overclocked has crashed hard. I have not clocked any thing over a PIII. I have never had a processor go bad on me. The most i have been able to get out of one is almost a 100% incress, that was a PIII 600 Mhz running at over 1100 Mhz, it would crash after about 2 hrs of gaming.

I don't overclock because I feel like if you want your processor to be .4ghz faster, you should buy one that is. Now I understand that chips that could run faster are forced slower due to demand for cheaper processors, but still you are voiding your warranty for a slight gain in performance. And often it's not the processor that's making your Everquest 2 or gentoo Stage I compile slow (ok maybe it is for the gentoo one but still) it's ususally the file system / io devices

I mean, you dont buy a ford and tune the engine to the same specs as a racecar. While it *might* work it's more likely gonna blow up your engine.

Now eons ago, I did overclock my 486 a tad because back then it really was the processor slowing stuff down and it ran plenty cool where I lived.

But nowadays, dont do it. You'll shoot your eye out kid

--Taladon

I don't and i doubt i ever will lol i have a 3ghz P4 im afraid ill fry it and be screwed lol i may if i get a better faster computer but if that dosnt happen im not going to because this is the only computer i have lol i wouldnt wanna mess it up .

I don't overclock my pc, as I have in the past and the long
term affects from it, were more less help then doing it.

aka Damaged Hardware