Your highest overclock

What was the highest overclock you ever got from your CPU? List your CPU model, the factory clock speed, and the overclocked speed as well as the percentage and how stable it was. For example here's my OC:

Intel Core 2 Duo E4300
Factory clock speed: 1.82 GHz
Max overclocked speed: 3.79 GHz (unstable)
Stable overclocked speed: 3.47 GHz (but still running at 3.04 GHz anyways just to be safe)
Percentage of increase: Max overclock - 101%; Stable overclock - 67%

 

I am not overclocking my cpu, since I am happy with the current 3.4 GHZ, and I don't want to spoil it, it is not a cheap thing

 

What's your CPU?

 

I could do with a bit of overclocking since my AMD Sempron operates at 1.93GHz but I really don't want to fry it and then spend money on a new one. But it'd be fun to see how much this could do, although I've heard that the Sempron model is not meant for this type of thing (OC and gaming).

 

Mine is an Intel pentium 3.4 GhZ, I don't know what else I would have to say about it.

 

@kuvasz: You're right. Sempron models are just for typical use like surfing the web and stuff. AMD's usually not my choice. I've had bad experiences with their chips.

In my experience the Core 2 Duo E4300 is one of the best OC'ers. With good cooling you could prolly OC that to more than a 100% performance increase with stability. If you're looking for a cheap CPU I seriously recommend that one, especially if you'll overclock.

 

Im not going to overclock mine either, i think i dont have enought cooling...

 

I overclocked entirely on stock cooling myself.

 

I have crap memory so overclocking wouldn't even be that effective because the memory would still hold perfomance back

 

How many rams u have? yeah, it holds back, but if you've got cooling (and ambition to overclock) you can still make it a bit faster..

 

1GB. I like to have music playing in the background while playing games and when you use a full screen application what is on the desktop is taken out of the vidoe Ram and put in the main memory and since I don't have that much in the way of workable space it it gets bogged down if I have to aalt tab to change songs. its fine if I am at the main menu but in a battle hitting alt+tab causes me to lose 5 minutes of my time

 

Hey BoP that is not a little memory, you can be happy with it... Well actually I was.
Try this: go to control panel> system properties>special>Performance settings>then special again>Virtual memory settings, and you can add some to the virtual memory by modifying the size of the ram. Currently I use the minimum 2046 and the maximum 4096.
I used this setting with the 1 GB Ram computer too, and I didn't have any problems.

An other thing could be that you have many plugins, unused programs installed. If you do, the best is to make a full data save, and format your winchester, cause than it may isn't the rams fault.

 

I am running Vista BTW and usually streaming music in IE or listening to music stored on my PC sso there are other programs on my PC. Also I have change virtual memory before but it hasn't helped probably because my hard drive has a low seeks speed. Its a few years old.

The games run fine its just alt+tabbing that causes the problems and as I have explained beofre that is because your desktop images are stored in either main or virtual memory in a full screen program which takes some time to access. I have 512MB of memory on my card so there is a lot of stuff to move

 

ooh I've got your problem than.. Well Vista uses the big part of the ram any time, but if the games work, that won't be a big problem.. (especially if SC2 will work)

 

Yeah Games work just fine. Its when I exit the game that I have problems

 

My CPU is already 3.0 GHz without overclocking. That's enough for me. :good:

 

i have 7.8 ghz, but 198 ram
will bigger ram prevent my pc from slowing down or lagging?

 

Yes, it will.

 

Ok am I the only one who sees something wrong with 7.8 Ghz processor with only 198 MB RAM?

 

Well it is kinda unusual... Ursawarrior how could you have this kind of setting? 7.8? Is it a duo-core?