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| Thread ID: 110863 | 2010-07-04 22:52:00 | why OCing screwed up windows? | powerover (12121) | Press F1 |
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| 1115869 | 2010-07-06 03:17:00 | Couple of points in here that are not entirely correct. Overclocking does not increase the speed of the SATA chipset, the SATA ports are integrated in to the southbridge, and it is not possible to overclock it, it also sits on its own dedicated bus, so even if the PCIe bus was overclocked, it would have no impact on the south bridge at all. If you have a seperate SATA chipset (common) that sits on the PCIe bus the PCIe bus is locked at 100Mhz, this is also not affected by overclocking at all, although some motherboards do allow overclocking the PCIe bus, I have never done it and don't really see the point. What IS affected by overclocking a great deal is the north bridge as it provides a system bus clock (AKA the front side bus, but no longer the case with i7 which is internal now and called the base clock) this is what links the northbridge to the CPU, and the northbridge talks to everything else such as memory (on older systems) the southbridge and the PCIe bus. Intel "chipsets" are awesome for overclocking! my last Asus board had a P45 chipset, and my current one is an X48, but intel chipset, and I don't think you can get any motherboards that aren't intel chipset, you can get boards with nvidia bridge type chipsets that allow greater PCIe speeds but the Northbridge and Southbridge are still intel. And the PSU calcs are all well and good but keep in mind that those calcs are working out your maximum load, you can't base your PSU purchase decision on that figure as only the top quality PSUs can actually output their rated capacity! and even a slightly lesser quality one will have degraded DC quality at close to thier maximum, and clean stable current is very important when overclocking, you should be looking at least a 20% overhead based on those calculators, especially if you upgrade frequently like I do. wow thanks for the info...learnt a lot from ya today :D my mobo has a P45 chipset... it was running fine with the OCed CPU fine, until I added 2 GBs of ram, that made things a lot trickier..adding a second GPU isn't gonna help the PSU problem either.... I guess I should OC less then?? or am I better off getting a bigger PSU?? |
powerover (12121) | ||
| 1115870 | 2010-07-06 03:28:00 | what do you mean?? give us a link please. Oh yeah, and your PSU looks a little weak to be overclocking with SLI, I tend to go way overboard with mine, you can see my specs here: New PC (pressf1.pcworld.co.nz) post #9, the quoted text has updated links, additional pics in post #8 |
Deimos (5715) | ||
| 1115871 | 2010-07-06 06:04:00 | post #9, the quoted text has updated links, additional pics in post #8 Nice, good looking :D check this out tho: www.imagef1.net.nz www.imagef1.net.nz www.imagef1.net.nz pics of my PC before I change the mobo (which i burnt installing the watercooling) and graphics card. the watercooling is home made yo....not toooo bad aye?? :D the only thing is that even I know it doesn't leak I still switched bck to air cool....but i did put it on my new mobo for 2 days and it worked very well tho.. |
powerover (12121) | ||
| 1115872 | 2010-07-06 07:14:00 | LOL nice, not very portable tho. I see you have the mandatory roll of toilet paper on your desk... |
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