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tWeaKmoD
PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:28 pm Reply with quote

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In attmept to keep my first post going I decided to post the following question:

Overclocking or Modding?

If you had to choose between the two hobbies, which would you choose? Please discard cost, as both cost whatever the user wants to put into it.

Personally I haven't overclocked much, though I would like to. I love to mod, there is just personal gratification knowing that your computer is like no other. So my preference is modding. What's yours?
 
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John C. Derrick
PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:31 pm Reply with quote

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Where on earth is Walt (Tweak) at? LOL

He'd love this post...
 
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OsirisX
PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:36 pm Reply with quote

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I perfer overclocking since it require alot less work. LOL
 
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:49 pm Reply with quote

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unknowndarknessx wrote:
I perfer overclocking since it require alot less work. LOL


I have to disagree here Dean. Real overclockers spend hours above an open cheasis trying to shortcut pins on their mobo.

I have a colleauge that has bought a brand new PC with i875 chipset ( Asus ) and two Xeons inside @ 3,06GHz. He has spent the past three months trying to overclock it at the most. He has even bought a fan system ( ordered from UK , cost 270 € ) just to cool the maybe-someday-ed CPUs. He is considering seriously of buing the new Iwill 800 board that features i875 chipsets as Assus' , supports two Xeons but it is more overclockable.
 
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OsirisX
PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:52 pm Reply with quote

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I'm talking about the easy version of overclocking. WHere you get a liquid cooling system and raise the fsb on your mb. LOL oops
 
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tWeaKmoD
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unknowndarknessx - have you done this to your system? If so how high did you overclock?
 
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OsirisX
PostPosted: Mon Mar 22, 2004 4:58 pm Reply with quote

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I made the mistake of purchasing a intel board when I upgraded my pc last year therefor I was only able to overclock from 2.6 to 2.7, I personally perfer asues mbs for ocing and if you have liquid cooling then 2.6 to 3.0 would be possible.
 
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tWeaKmoD
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Well I kind of consider liquid cooling both overclocking and modding. I would love to liquid cool my machine but right now I have priorities when it comes to spending money on my machine and unfotunitly a liquid cooling setup is not quite high on my list. How many people have liquid cooling? Anyone got pics? I love seeing pics of liquid systems!
 
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OsirisX
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Lots of cooling systems here.
http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=www.xbitlabs.com/images/editorial/cebit2002/cool-1.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/editorial/print/cebit2002.html&h=812&w=800&sz=103&tbnid=Y6KQxVI7NHYJ:&tbnh=141&tbnw=139&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dliquid%2Bcooling%2Bpc%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26ie%3DUTF-8%26oe%3DUTF-8%26sa%3DG
 
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UjusME
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I prefer overclocking right now because I am just now starting to really get into modding. It sounds funny that I live computers and I am a machinist and I never have really modded a case except for blow holes and putting in plexiglass.
 
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