Jamin43

My core i7 is plenty fast for me - without overclocking - but I still have a curiosity to overclock a CPU. I am thinking of getting a budget chip - taht I could care less about burning up - to toy around with.

Probably an AMD dual or triple core that I could find on a fire sale - with a budget board that I could modify an old Dell Case to fit it ( is that difficult )

it won't be a user PC - more of a toy - so I don't want to spend 100 bucks on a new O/S it. Could learn desktop Ubuntu with it??

One question I don't know about though. Would I be able to overclock with Ubuntu - just the same as Windows - or will that be a problem?

Anybody see anything about my pet project that wouldn't be feasible?

Thanks

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The_Other_One

The OS shouldn't make any difference when overclocking. But don't build a new machine, just mess around with what you've got. I've got mine sitting at 3.33GHz and it's never given me any problems. I had some when I tried to push it a bit farther, but I just dropped back down to the current settings and it's been as stable as could be.

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