Bee_Sting Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 how high can you OC a cpu without using a cooling system? my thinking is that you should be able to OC a cpu from 3.4 to 3.6 or to 3.7 without having a cooling system. my thinking is it too far fetched? please comment! thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtaliaA1 Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 By "Cooling System" you mean Liquid Cooling I am assuming. If so the slight bumps to the clock you listed are achievable with a "Quality" CPU Fan and heat sink. There are plenty average price is around $60 or so. So yes you can. This was a Boutique Builder iBuypower rig. Until I got the tinker bug again i7 920 @3.6Mhz 12Gig Corsair XMS3 ram 1600 Nvidia 760 SLi w/4Gig DDR5 Ram Intel 310 SSD HDD 160 Gb + Western Digital 4Terabyte HDD Creative SB X-Fi HD Audio Logitech X-530 5.1 Surround Speaker System Dual Acer 32"Monitors. PSU 1200 w Thermaltake Win10 64Bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sobek Posted August 10, 2011 Share Posted August 10, 2011 how high can you OC a cpu without using a cooling system? my thinking is that you should be able to OC a cpu from 3.4 to 3.6 or to 3.7 without having a cooling system. my thinking is it too far fetched? please comment! Depends on the processor and your stock cooler. For more than slight OCing, i'd recommend an aftermarket cooler. You have to be careful and know what you are doing, but basically it is a trial and error process at what settings you can get it to run stable. At stock voltages you are probably not going to fry your CPU, even with stock cooler. As an example: my current CPU (c2d e8400 stock 3.0 GHz) is overclocked to 3.6 GHz with its box cooler and without voltage tuning. Good, fast, cheap. Choose any two. Come let's eat grandpa! Use punctuation, save lives! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtaliaA1 Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 As an example: my current CPU (c2d e8400 stock 3.0 GHz) is overclocked to 3.6 GHz with its box cooler and without voltage tuning. I was concidering OCing my i720 a bump or two. So I looked at the videos offered by those who have done it. I don't understand why one guy would change so many settings in his BIOS, and the next guy wouldn't and both would acheive the same setting. ie. one of them turned off Hyper Threading and adjusted his Voltage and about 4 or 5 other BIOS settings. In the other video the guy changes 2 items restarts and he has the same speed as the other one. This was a Boutique Builder iBuypower rig. Until I got the tinker bug again i7 920 @3.6Mhz 12Gig Corsair XMS3 ram 1600 Nvidia 760 SLi w/4Gig DDR5 Ram Intel 310 SSD HDD 160 Gb + Western Digital 4Terabyte HDD Creative SB X-Fi HD Audio Logitech X-530 5.1 Surround Speaker System Dual Acer 32"Monitors. PSU 1200 w Thermaltake Win10 64Bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSharpe Posted August 11, 2011 Share Posted August 11, 2011 As an example: my current CPU (c2d e8400 stock 3.0 GHz) is overclocked to 3.6 GHz with its box cooler and without voltage tuning. I was concidering OCing my i720 a bump or two. So I looked at the videos offered by those who have done it. I don't understand why one guy would change so many settings in his BIOS, and the next guy wouldn't and both would acheive the same setting. ie. one of them turned off Hyper Threading and adjusted his Voltage and about 4 or 5 other BIOS settings. In the other video the guy changes 2 items restarts and he has the same speed as the other one. Probably because the guy who only changed two things didn't know what he was doing, or was too lazy to overclock in a manner that's the most efficient and most stable. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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