decent rig with overclock?

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tnt27

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hey ppl,

well i was wondering how long will my current rig run games on med-high settings? (specs in sig) i have a packard bell mobo, that i plan 2 change, put my 2.8ghz processor in that will be cooled by an XP-90. i plan to hopefully overclock to like a 3.2 - 3.4 in an Asus P4S800-X board. if this happens, will i still have a good rig for games like unreal 3 and beyond? thanks in advance!
 
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tnt27 said:
hey ppl,

well i was wondering how long will my current rig run games on med-high settings? (specs in sig) i have a packard bell mobo, that i plan 2 change, put my 2.8ghz processor in that will be cooled by an XP-90. i plan to hopefully overclock to like a 3.2 - 3.4 in an Asus P4S800-X board. if this happens, will i still have a good rig for games like unreal 3 and beyond? thanks in advance!
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Don't overclock,upgrade to the game requirements.
Overclocking sux and is harmfull to your disk health.
Why is this such an obsession ? Please respond.
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bluto2 said:
Don't overclock,upgrade to the game requirements.
Overclocking sux and is harmfull to your disk health.
Why is this such an obsession ? Please respond.
:eek:
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lol, rright, overclocking is not harmful to your system if you dont go overboard...."and is harmful to your disk health" what you mean the harddrive? absolutly not...It's an obsession because of the "thrill" and the extra performance boost you get....

Edit: How do you think its harmful? I admit the extra voltages are not good for the proc, but whats the lifetime on a proc 10 years? more? it will prolly just cut the lifetime down by a year at most..and that is if you increase the volts to the proc, and sometimes thats not even necessary...
 
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bluto2 said:
Don't overclock,upgrade to the game requirements.
Overclocking sux and is harmfull to your disk health.
Why is this such an obsession ? Please respond.
:eek:
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yeah ok..... im already above the system requirements for games out now, this is for the future, when some people DONT have the money to buy to 'upgrade' thats why i want this rig to last at least another 2 years, and how does it suck, it makes ur computer better, and its not an obsession this is my first time doing it..

Bunchofstuff said:
lol, rright, overclocking is not harmful to your system if you dont go overboard...."and is harmful to your disk health" what you mean the harddrive? absolutly not...It's an obsession because of the "thrill" and the extra performance boost you get....

Edit: How do you think its harmful? I admit the extra voltages are not good for the proc, but whats the lifetime on a proc 10 years? more? it will prolly just cut the lifetime down by a year at most..and that is if you increase the volts to the proc, and sometimes thats not even necessary...
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serious a processor will only lose about a year in performance? :D sweet. cause this processor is 2 and a half years old, and planning to keep it for a at least 2 years.. nice thanks for the help
 
You could prolly get about 5 more years out of it, just dont go overboard with the overclocking, you could prolly reach 3.3 or 3.4 with just raising the FSB and it would still be stable....im not really sure of the lifetime of a proc , but i know its a loong time;)
 
Don't overclock,
Overclocking sux and is harmfull to your disk health.
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All modern boards lock the agp/pci speeds, and they have been for a while now. So there is no risk your other components. Your "disk health", not that i'm sure what you mean by that, will be unaffected.

upgrade to the game requirements.
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not everyone can afford this, although i do not condone buying a system with the intent of oc'ing up to a games spec. It has to be said that overclocking can improve your gaming experience on a preexisting rig.

i thing that its generally understood that overclocking, whilst it may shortening the life of your processor it will be not be anything that you will notice within the life of its usefulness. But then again adding a few mhz is not going to exptend the useful life of the processor by any really significant amount either.

You could prolly get about 5 more years out of it
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no amount of overclocking is going to realise that dream
 
apj101 said:
no amount of overclocking is going to realise that dream
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you sure, i dont mean that in 5 years the system would still beable to play new games, i mean in five year the CPU would still be alive :)
 
i plan to hopefully overclock to like a 3.2 - 3.4 in an Asus P4S800-X board
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You'd be lucky on that board with its SiS chipset

that UT2004 is unreal3
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Its unrealengine2

Overclocking sux and is harmfull to your disk health.
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Well its only harmful to the disk health if you OC the drive or the drive controllers which generally involves a lot of accidents or naivite to start with

Why is this such an obsession ? Please respond.
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Drop the philisophical crap and stay on topic

serious a processor will only lose about a year in performance?
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It depends on how much you alter the vcore

All modern boards lock the agp/pci speeds
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Yes but not all have functional drive controller locks :)

Your "disk health", not that i'm sure what you mean by that, will be unaffected.
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It's quite possible to (accidentally or i guess intentionally) OC the drive controllers
 
woah thanks for the reply ppls!! ive read them and thanks... although i have a query, Praetor, what do u mean about the SiS chip on the ASUS mobo? what board would be suitable for o'clocking a p4 northwood, 478pin? thanks
 
Praetor, what do u mean about the SiS chip on the ASUS mobo? what board would be suitable for o'clocking a p4 northwood, 478pin? thanks
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I mean that the chipset on that motherboard is "SiS 648FX" or in short, its made by a company called "SiS" (also evident by the 'S' in 'P4S800-X'). And SiS, in short, is crud for normal and power users alike. For the S478 platform, the premier board/chipset is the P4C800 series (Intel i875P chipset) but that tends to be on the overly-expensive side so the P4P800 seires (Intel i865PE) lineup is a more cost effective choice
 
oh ok thanks for clearing that up Praetor, out of the boards, which on do u recomend? im on a sorta tight budget, but can afford $170-60 minus. this is in AUS dollars, and im probably buying from this site, www.hardlynormals.com

EDIT: sorry man, i was ment to say P4P800-X all along, which i was recomended from a friend, i dnt no y i sed S, u think this one is a better board? or should i go the P4P800 SE?
 
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oh ok thanks for clearing that up Praetor, out of the boards, which on do u recomend? im on a sorta tight budget, but can afford $170-60 minus. this is in AUS dollars, and im probably buying from this site,
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Link doesnt work

EDIT: sorry man, i was ment to say P4P800-X all along, which i was recomended from a friend, i dnt no y i sed S, u think this one is a better board? or should i go the P4P800 SE?
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The difference between the P4P800-X and the P4P800 SE is just that the SE has the fancy digital audio thing. If you donare care too much about that (or are getting a soundcard anyways), the P4P800-X is the board to get. Regardless the price difference shouldnt be that much (doing a quick search its only $10CAD difference for me)
 
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