overclocking question too shy to ask elsewhere

blortina · 09-13-07, 09:00 PM

Shipmates:

Not that SH4 needs to be overclocked, but I also fly a lot of FSX and have tried several times to manually or (using nvidia "tuning") get my PC to overclock without dying after a few minutes or hours.

I'm not a dumbass, but I can never seem to grok the whole overclocking thing.

I have a 6600 running stock on a evga 680i with a thermaltake v1 cooler (best looking cooler out there, cools well too...), 2gb of mushkin 95535, 2 raptors 74gb in raid0 on a 3ware controller, xfi and antec 900 with a pc power&cooling 750 sli...running xp pro sp2 with latest beta nvidia drivers.

is there a site you can point me to, for forty year old nerds that drink, that can help me understand how to overclock my 680i and 6600 to get speeds like that without it becoming more unstable than britney spears with 15 espressos in her?

seriously, who can help me: a smart but stupid american man, with a well focused, audience conscious essay on how to overclock my machine and understand the whole voltage to megahertz thing.

more voltage is more oomph through the wire, so you can run things faster: but what do I turn up and what does some of this crazy stuff mean? I have just one 8800gtx with good cooling so something better than stock should be possible, but like I say, I have some mental block or something to understanding it.

who wants to help a brother out with some sensible links? I'll send you some excellent beef jerky and excellent potato chips to you if you can help me teach myself wtf is going on and how to get what seems like an overclockable situation to actually work for more than a few hours.

thank you,

ensign blortina
vermont, usa
BAC .088%
Wind NNE at 5
Seas calm
Wife unconscious
Beer: 6 loaded 6 in reserve

09-13-07, 09:00 PM	#1
blortina Swabbie Join Date: Mar 2007 Posts: 5 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	overclocking question too shy to ask elsewhere Shipmates: Not that SH4 needs to be overclocked, but I also fly a lot of FSX and have tried several times to manually or (using nvidia "tuning") get my PC to overclock without dying after a few minutes or hours. I'm not a dumbass, but I can never seem to grok the whole overclocking thing. I have a 6600 running stock on a evga 680i with a thermaltake v1 cooler (best looking cooler out there, cools well too...), 2gb of mushkin 95535, 2 raptors 74gb in raid0 on a 3ware controller, xfi and antec 900 with a pc power&cooling 750 sli...running xp pro sp2 with latest beta nvidia drivers. is there a site you can point me to, for forty year old nerds that drink, that can help me understand how to overclock my 680i and 6600 to get speeds like that without it becoming more unstable than britney spears with 15 espressos in her? seriously, who can help me: a smart but stupid american man, with a well focused, audience conscious essay on how to overclock my machine and understand the whole voltage to megahertz thing. more voltage is more oomph through the wire, so you can run things faster: but what do I turn up and what does some of this crazy stuff mean? I have just one 8800gtx with good cooling so something better than stock should be possible, but like I say, I have some mental block or something to understanding it. who wants to help a brother out with some sensible links? I'll send you some excellent beef jerky and excellent potato chips to you if you can help me teach myself wtf is going on and how to get what seems like an overclockable situation to actually work for more than a few hours. thank you, ensign blortina vermont, usa BAC .088% Wind NNE at 5 Seas calm Wife unconscious Beer: 6 loaded 6 in reserve