Overclocking, Voltage ?

[tisoy]

I noticed while reading up on Overclocking, that you may need to change the Voltage on a CPU if you overclock it because it has more demand for it.

Can anyone explian this to me. I have overclocked my PC abit, and havent touched the voltage.

thanks!

[McDaddy]

you can overclock without changing the voltage, but only so far. when you overclock and you start to experiance instability, up the voltage a little bit and see if that fixes your problem.

as you overclock you are making the components run faster than they were designed to run. this requires more power. think of it like a car. if you are going down the highway at 60mph. you get the best gas mileage. this also hints why the spees limits are between 55 and 65 mph. if you want to go faster, you press the gas pedal more and go faster. but it takes more gas, to go the same distance. you just get there quicker.

the same idea applies to overclocking computers. another thing about overclocking is that it also creates extra heat, which can dammage parts of your computer. my advice to you is to learn as much about it as you can before you attempt any thing. also if you know someone who lives near you that does it, ask them for help. and last thought is if you have a spare motherboard, processor, ect. try on the spare equiptment first.

[joey]

Just be aware that by increasing the voltage, you're also running more power than was designed to flow through the chips lines than previously. You can up the voltage on your processor, as well as the other options to help you in your overclocking venture in your BIOS. Vcore is the voltage for your processor, Vdimm is the voltage for your memory.

[Steve]

yea remember that voltage is good, but you cannot just up the voltage as high as it goes. also remember that the memory's voltage is just as important as the CPUs when it comes to having a stable system.

-Steve

[McDaddy]

befor you do anything read up on what you are trying to do. be willing to buy new components. not that you will have to, but it is a risk. and either print out some information about the bios before you start, or have another computer handy to look up what you are unfamiliar about.

only make 1 change at a time, and make your increaces in small incriments.
write down what your setting are each time so that if you have to clear the cmos. you can go right back to where you left off.
monitor your system temps.
and after making some fairly segnificant changes, stop and let your computer run for a couple hours, or even overnight if you make big increaces. this is called burning in.


also note that a faster processor is not necessarily the best way to make your computer faster.

persionally i am all about having a huge fsb and synking it with the ram. that is where you bet the most preformance in my opinion. but you decide.