Overclocking?

[Luciel]

stop risking your pc and certainly cutting it's life span, what you need to do its get a decent graphics card, with the one you have you are just bottlenecking your pc.

[jlg6184]

Originally Posted by Luciel

stop risking your pc and certainly cutting it's life span, what you need to do its get a decent graphics card, with the one you have you are just bottlenecking your pc.

LOL....neverheard the term bottlenecking before, but you are right...I really need a new graphics card....but currently that isn't an option....I am currently spending most of my time and money trying to get through college. I actually plan on pickin up another graphics card when I get the change though....I was thinkin something like a GeForce 6800

[Luciel]

Yeah i mean, it's a shame you have a amd 64 and 2 gig of ram... you'll be fine with a 5900 or even (although pushing it) a 5600 and they go as cheap as chips on ebay

[DABhand]

Gigabyte Gforce 6200's are very cheap just now for a 256mb.. I would go for that..

Or if you have the cash 6600 and upwards. Or an Ati equivalent.


EDIT: Dont push the 754 AMD 64, it becomes very unstable and damages the chip with overclocking, you can overclock the 939 chip (need a different motherboard offcourse) somewhat with safety.

[kosmiq]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Gigabyte Gforce 6200's are very cheap just now for a 256mb.. I would go for that..

Or if you have the cash 6600 and upwards. Or an Ati equivalent.


EDIT: Dont push the 754 AMD 64, it becomes very unstable and damages the chip with overclocking, you can overclock the 939 chip (need a different motherboard offcourse) somewhat with safety.

Actually it is the integrated memory controller that gets bad when overclocking the s754 CPU's... :P
On the other (DAB)hand it is in the "chip"...

Paying any money for a 6200 is no idea, it is a waste of money. Save the money until you have enough for a 6600GT atleast.

[DABhand]

The Gigabyte 6200 is a GT card, and is quite cheap for someone who doesnt have a lot of it.

In the case of our original poster, he may be skint after paying his money for the machine he has

[kosmiq]

Even if the 6200 is a GT is s*cks so bad I would never consider it. It has 64bit memory bandwith, lacks a lot of features and is generally kinda bad.
Its the same thing as the 5200 were back then. Atleast a 6600GT will last a little longer.

That is what I think atleast.