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takoma

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Since: Oct 23, 2006
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(Msg. 1) Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 2:55 am
Post subject: never overclocked before
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I don't want to fry my system, but I just threw together some older
parts and would like to try overclocking, a little. I have

Abit kd7 raid
amd athlon 2600+ 2.13Ghz
Windows XP
300w psu
768 Ram pc2100
Nvidia FX 5200 128mgb

I would just like to play BF2, HL2, Far Cry, with a little better
performance, can't really get into any newer hardware right now. I
know this mobo has the soft menu feature, but I am not sure what to
adjust and to what level would be stable/safer.

Any suggestions?

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Matthew Hicks

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Since: Sep 23, 2006
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:31 am
Post subject: Re: never overclocked before [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Games a decent resolutions are generally GPU constrained not CPU
constrained. Therefore, you might want to look into getting a new graphics
card or into overclocking you current graphics card.


---Matthew Hicks


"takoma" <no.RemoveThis@spam.invalid> wrote in message
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>I don't want to fry my system, but I just threw together some older
> parts and would like to try overclocking, a little. I have
>
> Abit kd7 raid
> amd athlon 2600+ 2.13Ghz
> Windows XP
> 300w psu
> 768 Ram pc2100
> Nvidia FX 5200 128mgb
>
> I would just like to play BF2, HL2, Far Cry, with a little better
> performance, can't really get into any newer hardware right now. I
> know this mobo has the soft menu feature, but I am not sure what to
> adjust and to what level would be stable/safer.
>
> Any suggestions?
>

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Thomas

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Since: Jul 27, 2005
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 1:26 pm
Post subject: Re: never overclocked before [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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takoma wrote:
> amd athlon 2600+ 2.13Ghz
> Nvidia FX 5200 128mgb
>
> I would just like to play BF2, HL2, Far Cry, with a little better
> performance, can't really get into any newer hardware right now. I
> know this mobo has the soft menu feature, but I am not sure what to
> adjust and to what level would be stable/safer.

That vid card is so slow, it'll be the limiting factor in yr system.
Overclocking CPU and memory can gain you a very veyr little bit. Try to
overclock the video, that might help a bit. Is de card actively cooled?

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Grtz, Thomas.
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