parabol, TF2 has always run like a dream but i have noticed a fair amount of gain in other games such as Crysis.

I've done my share of overclocking in the past (which included changing SMD components on a graphics card to bump up the voltage) but I've found it's not very necessary these days on a CPU as they are generally fast enough for most purposes.

No voltage changes here, just bumping the FSB to 400 (changing voltages would require better heating solutions and really not where i want to go...)

Give us frame-rate benchmarks in TF2 pre and post overclock to illustrate the benefits.

meeeeeeeh, as i said it was a quick and minor oc which provided a nice little kick with 1 degree temp rise and stable stress test... My work is done.

EDIT: anyway, chub upgrade already :P

last edited by $ack at 20:52:09 14/Jul/08

as i said it was a quick and minor oc which provided a nice little kick with 1 degree temp rise and stable stress test

Again you haven't elaborated on that "nice little kick". Sounds like you haven't actually noticed any real-world improvement. As I said I'm sure that a blind test would show no perceived performance boost, as would be the case for most overclocks (and expensive low-latency ram) these days.

last edited by parabol at 21:28:00 14/Jul/08

uh parabol I fail to see why you seem too think having a slower computer is a good thing. For a 5 degrees max temperature increase with an extra 1+ghz of processing speed there is really no downside.

with an extra 1+ghz of processing speed

I fail to see how that does anything when one can already get an insane frame-rate at stock speed?

Remember we're talking about TF2. I'll repaste the quote that I am addressing:

"get a P5KC + E8400 + 1gb Ram, overclock to 3.6ghz"

Overclocking is generally for people with way too much time on their hands. To feel confident about an overclock, you have to stress test it for many hours to find a sweet spot (all CPUs are different) and even then it's still a matter of probability whether your data integrity (in ram, hard-drive or otherwise) is compromised ... regardless of the core temperature.

last edited by parabol at 23:23:38 14/Jul/08

Its not just for games it also improves overall system speed. Hell I have a Q9300 overclocked to 2.97ghz x 4 and can go up to 3.5 if I really want I just need to upgrade my mobo. With most new bios software these days it makes over-clocking very easy and safe.

But if you want to battle it out with TF2 an increase like that would probably make the 1600x1200+ resolutions produce a much nicer frame rate. I would test and show you now but my system is to high end for HL2 to actually notice a difference, I can reinstall crysis and show you though that it does make a difference in frame rate.

Decided to give sniper a proper go tonight, and holy s***, I've never owned so hard in my life.

http://i38.tinypic.com/15dp1s3.jpg

Didn't have the highest score, but I'm not gonna complain about 141 points.

http://members.iinet.net.au/~dcadigan/cp_granary0006.jpg

Haha, awesome. Half of the people I dominated last night got revenge, two of them at the same time :(