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Post by sensay on Apr 25, 2009 16:21:20 GMT -5
Pointless thread is pointless, i know but i want to rant.
Bought an amd 4400+ the other day, (like 2 weeks ago) broke the fu*ker yesterday.
Had been comfortably overclocking the beast up to a nice 2.8ghz from 2.3 stock, but decided i wanted more (this story is NOT going where you think) I pushed for the 3.0ghz mark but with the increased voltage heat was becoming an issue. Remembering that the chip only had the stock adhesive pad that came with the fan i decided to put some as5 on instead to shave a few degrees off. And this is where the problems began...
The adhesive tape from before was SO sticky that the cpu had practically melded to the fan. So even after unconnecting the fan, it was still very firmly attached because the cpu was holding it in place. With no way to free the cpu from the slot on the board either i commenced trying to somehow ease the fan away from the cpu and the fuc*ing cpu ripped out of the slot bent and missing pins present. And that was the end of that beatiful 2 weeks.
Back to my pentium 4 until tuesday when my 2.7GHz dual core chip arrives. Seriously never realised how much suckage the p4s are i mean goddamn!
/rant
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Post by fude on Apr 25, 2009 17:24:55 GMT -5
I also hate fiddling with the actual hardware, I just feel like they won't stand even touching without breaking up. I bought my current pc in parts, yet i still got it built in a local store. I just won't risk it. Well, I once did raise my E2160 from 1.8 to 2.4, now it's been uhh quite a year now and still running like a dream.
Why you've gotten a smitey smite, sensay?
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Post by sensay on Apr 25, 2009 18:07:53 GMT -5
idk, people always smite me.
As for tinkering with pcs you misunderstand me, i LOVE IT but this was a rather annoying disaster..
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Post by fude on Apr 25, 2009 18:09:35 GMT -5
Did you try any duct tape? It seems to fix anything.
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Post by sensay on Apr 25, 2009 18:11:34 GMT -5
lmao, errrr what? I broke several of the VERY tiny pins that are used to seat the cpu into the cpu slot, its fubar man.
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Post by fude on Apr 25, 2009 18:14:16 GMT -5
I knew i was way off. Coming back in-topic, did you get it in warranty? If not, it feels bad to spend another load of bucks to get another one.
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Post by sensay on Apr 26, 2009 3:29:37 GMT -5
Warranty means nothing, i destroyed my cpu and no warranty will cover that. lol
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Post by fude on Apr 26, 2009 5:32:19 GMT -5
Well, the adhesive really shouldn't stick like that. With some stubborn arguing you could probably turn their heads about this case. Although they always say warranty voids with installation mistakes, you could still convince them it was not your fault.
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Post by sensay on Apr 26, 2009 7:43:30 GMT -5
Yeah, i could have tried i guess but ive ordered the new dual now. Plus, i think it would be the manufacturer of the fan i would need to complain too as it was there adhesive pad that caused this problem, nothing to do with the cpu unfortunately. :/
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Post by Confusingboat on May 7, 2009 2:24:06 GMT -5
Can't wait to see how much it takes to break my new Phenom II 940 lol. I've seen people get 4.3GHz on air from 3.0 stock...I'll see how far life takes me.
I also lawl at the 4400+. I had a 4200+ at stock 2.2GHz, and it's funny to see how an addition of 200 to the name equates to 100MHz increase per core. If anything, MINE should've been called 4400+ for its 4400MHz of total processing power. Naming scheme? More like naming sham. As in sham for Shamu, like a fat [censored]. F*ck Intel.
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Post by sensay on May 7, 2009 2:49:31 GMT -5
Yeah that phenom should overclock well. I got my 5200 (2.7ghz, stupid names indeed) the other day and managed to safeley attain 3.2ghz at air cooling. Funny thing is, even now my temperatures are in a very good range (did have to increase teh vcore some) but now if i add even a 1mhz increase to the 'bus' speed the bios resets itself. I blame my cheap [censored] board that doesnt allow me any memoery timing options!  |
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Post by Confusingboat on May 8, 2009 0:29:00 GMT -5
That's probably because you're supposed to overclock using the multiplier lol. Black Edition processors (such as mine) have an unlocked multiplier, allowing you to easily increase it at your discretion. You should've gotten a Black Edition. I've never heard of anyone increasing the bus speed before...
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Post by sensay on May 8, 2009 3:50:13 GMT -5
wat?
A large amount of overvlovking is done with the fsb..
AMD did away with it on later chips but mine still has it. Its the same as tweaking the multiplier becasue your just tweaking what the multiplier is multiplying.
This is how a lot of overclocking has always been done, especially on lower end boards with no multiplier options.
Its a perfevtly fine way to do the job but what needs to be considered is that the other hardware in your computer gets overclocked too if it relys on the fsb. Fortunatelty by board supports 'locking' the pci and pci-e bus so that only leaves my memory as relying on the fsb for its operating frequency.
I have no memory options apart from the voltage settings and as such am limited in terms of how much i can overclock becasue of it.
Finally, even if one had an unlocked multiplier, the bus frequency would still be adjusted in conjunction with changing the multiplier.
So all in all what you said really made no sense there...
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