January 7, 200917 yr I've been thinking about this for a while now, but I've got a couple of question before I go ahead and do (break) anything. So PC Specs first: Dell 9100 375W PSU :roll: Stock Dell/Intel Mobo, as far as I know Intel Pentium 4 HT 3.2Ghz 3GB DDR2 Ram, 2x512MB PC2-3200 & 2x1GB PC2-5200 Nvidia 8600GT 512MB GPU (afaik, this is the DDR2 version) Would it possible to overclock any of this? My only real concern is the PSU, since it's a prebuilt. I've seen several applications on the internet which supposedly allow for easy overclocking for a variety of different CPUs/GPUs but are these any good, or are they best avoided? If I could overclock it, how much change in performance would I notice? Currently I can play 'orange box' source games on near highest settings and get about 30fps. Any help would be much appreciated, thanks :) "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
January 7, 200917 yr Stay clear of programs to help overclock. The only ones you'd want to use are some for Video card overclocking. With your PC and PSU I really would not bother to overclock. A pentium 4 is fairly bottlenecked already (not even a dual core) so extra speed really wouldn't matter. And the video card, well, I don't think you would get a very noticable increase from OCing it.
January 7, 200917 yr ITs a Dell so I'm not sure if the motherboard is already locked and 3.2ghz is already pretty high for a P4, overclocking it will lead to BSOD's due to the high temperatures.
January 8, 200917 yr I would say there are possible thermal issues but just run ooct and see if it is running alright. Keep in mind you might need a custom bios or a 3rd party application which is some what risky. Your getting 30fps due to your graphics.
January 8, 200917 yr Author I guess I need a new computer then :lol: Cheers for the advice guys, I see now that it's not really worth doing given there's a high chance I might break something. "In the beginning, the universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
January 8, 200917 yr I see now that it's not really worth doing given there's a high chance I might break something. There always is.
January 8, 200917 yr Dell, everything will be locked, so the only feasible overclock will be the Coolbits tweak or Rivatuner on the graphics. Also, a P4 HT 3.2GHz gets pretty warm at full tilt and isn't known for great overclocking - in fact, the clock to heat problem is what ended the P4 family, as the power consumption rocketed as they tried to scale the clockspeed up.
Create an account or sign in to comment