Yea a processor would not explode like that when overclocked... it has failsafes and other things that if it gets above a certain temperature the motherboard or the powersupply shuts off and goes into a deep sleep kind of thing, trust me Ive tried overclocking this old Pentium II of mine to 7 GHz and even it didnt explode.
jks wrote:Yea a processor would not explode like that when overclocked... it has failsafes and other things that if it gets above a certain temperature the motherboard or the powersupply shuts off and goes into a deep sleep kind of thing, trust me Ive tried overclocking this old Pentium II of mine to 7 GHz and even it didnt explode.
Yea, and on my amd 3500 if I put the clock from 300 to 320(not sure wha units, that's just what it tells me in the cell menu) the motherboard beeps at me and I have to reset the bios.
jks wrote:Yea a processor would not explode like that when overclocked... it has failsafes and other things that if it gets above a certain temperature the motherboard or the powersupply shuts off and goes into a deep sleep kind of thing, trust me Ive tried overclocking this old Pentium II of mine to 7 GHz and even it didnt explode.
Yea, and on my amd 3500 if I put the clock from 300 to 320(not sure wha units, that's just what it tells me in the cell menu) the motherboard beeps at me and I have to reset the bios.
Probably mhz... 300 mhz is 3 ghz and 320 mhz is 3.2 ghz, most overclockers display in mhz for somereason even though we are out of the stone ages where Pentium I's used to be like 100 mhz...
jks wrote:Yea a processor would not explode like that when overclocked... it has failsafes and other things that if it gets above a certain temperature the motherboard or the powersupply shuts off and goes into a deep sleep kind of thing, trust me Ive tried overclocking this old Pentium II of mine to 7 GHz and even it didnt explode.
Yea, and on my amd 3500 if I put the clock from 300 to 320(not sure wha units, that's just what it tells me in the cell menu) the motherboard beeps at me and I have to reset the bios.
Probably mhz... 300 mhz is 3 ghz and 320 mhz is 3.2 ghz, most overclockers display in mhz for somereason even though we are out of the stone ages where Pentium I's used to be like 100 mhz...
well the actual clock is 2.37 Ghz. I'll have to see exactly what it is next time I restart my comp..
Yea I have an AMD athlon 64 3200+ that says its 2 ghz clock, but when you combine that with the 2ghz FSB speed its actually more like a 3.2 ghz pentium. So if your clock is 2.37 the 300 mhz is cutting your speed short.
Just so you guys know. You wouldn't believe how much even just a heatsink protects your processor. If you turn on a processor for even seconds without one it will break regardless of if it's overclocked.