Brian V wrote:
> I have read a little bit about this. I am curious if anyone can recommend any
> sites or knowledge bases about overclocking.
>
> I am not planning on doing this. I just want to be informed. I think I need
> more pc experience to do any overlclocking. It seems to deal with gaming and
> can be used with any hardware in your computer? Does it realate to software?
>
> Any advice is also appriciated from anyones experience.
>
> My warrenty is long over. No warrenty will become void if I over-clock.
If you want the thrill of overclocking, you can start right now. If the
degree of overclock is small enough, you don't have to know anything to
do it.
Download this software. It allows overclocking. You run this in Windows,
rather than attempting to overclock from the BIOS. Install it and run
it. Your E380 and its 6100 Northbridge are in the supported hardware list
("Geforce 6100/6150"). I have to point you to an archived copy of the
program, because the author no longer supports it (likely got tired of
people asking for support for their motherboard).
http://web.archive.org/web/20070929075711/http://www.cpuid.com/clockgen.php
Move the FSB slider by 1MHz. Now you're overclocking. You can review and
verify the results in real time, with this. I don't have to use an
archived copy of this program, because the developer still supports it.
By only overclocking by 1MHz, none of the hardware will be stressed,
so there should be no damage or side effects from your experiment.
http://www.cpuid.com/cpuz.php
Now, compare your results, to this guy. He is running a Celeron processor
at 8.2GHz. The CPU is cooled to -186C with liquid nitrogen. The CPU has
had the metal lid removed, so the cooling system can be in intimate contact
with the silicon die. This is what real overclockers do for fun. This
web site probably has somewhere around 1 million reports of various kinds,
involving computers running at abnormal speeds.
http://hwbot.org/community/submission/949325_tin_cpu_z_celeron_lga775_347_8199.5_mhz
For discussions about all aspects of this sport, I recommend the forums here.
Some of the forums have "sticky" threads, containing a primer on the topic.
For example, the water cooling forum has an article, describing some of the
basics of water cooling for computers. Anyone with money for this kind of
stuff (like spending $5000 for a custom freon-based cooling system), is likely
to show up and post here.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/index.php
You can spend hours going through the forums there, and learn about the
latest hardware and how to overclock it. And you'll learn valuable things,
such as not running your 45nm Core2 processor at more than 1.4 volts on Vcore.
Or not to boost the Vcore on your FX57, without boosting the Vdimm at the
same time, to prevent damage to the processor. Other people will have ruined
hundreds of dollars worth of processors, to get some of those data points,
and make it possible for later overclcokers to do their thing with more safety.
And if you want to understand what mechanisms can damage the processor, try an
article like this. This is one way processors are gradually ruined. When
enthusiasts ruin processors in this way, such that they won't overclock any
more, the unscrupulous sell them on Ebay
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromigration
Have fun,
Paul
