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MOAR MULTIPLIERS!!!!!!!!!

 

You slowly crank the multiplier up and if it becomes unstable give it moar volts (increase by .1 of a volt)

Is that it? I remember reading somewhere on this forum that you need to pay attention to other stuff too when overclocking a CPU.

 

 

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Is that it? I remember reading somewhere on this forum that you need to pay attention to other stuff too when overclocking a CPU.

That's how I overclock. Pay attention to thermals too.

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MOAR MULTIPLIERS!!!!!!!!!

 

You slowly crank the multiplier up and if it becomes unstable give it moar volts (increase by .1 of a volt)

Not true. Not every CPU has an unlocked multiplier. My i7 920 had to be overclocked by increasing the base clock, not the multiplier.

 

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That's how I overclock. Pay attention to thermals too.

So just go until it is using an ungodly amount of power, generating WAY too much heat and is constantly BSODing?

 

 

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How do you overclock a CPU? I have heard it is vastly different than a GPU.

Is that it? I remember reading somewhere on this forum that you need to pay attention to other stuff too when overclocking a CPU.

So just go until it is using an ungodly amount of power, generating WAY too much heat and is constantly BSODing?

Every platform has it's own peculiarities, but that's the basic idea nowadays.

 

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Not true. Not every CPU has an unlocked multiplier. My i7 920 had to be overclocked by increasing the base clock, not the multiplier.

True, the MMX 233 that I over locked had to be done via BCLK, the highest FSB I could do was 75 so that left me at 75x3.5 giving me 262MHz.

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You do realize that you are replying a message that is almost a year old by now right?

YEP although I didn't know till after I posted it and it went to page 17. Then I looked. LOL
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Do pc see a dual gpu card as 1 card or 2 in SLI/Crossfire? I ask this because some Mobos cant  support 2 card but can they support 1 card with 2 gpus?

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how do mineral oil cooled PC's work and does it involve sinking components in a liquid.

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i wanna learn to hack but how do you do it where do i begin

Play Watch_Dogs :3

 

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how do mineral oil cooled PC's work and does it involve sinking components in a liquid.

put all components in fish tank, fill with mineral oil, run tubing, rad, and pump, going n bottom and out top

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put all components in fish tank, fill with mineral oil, run tubing, rad, and pump, going n bottom and out top

Well you can't have moving components inside the oil.

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Well you can't have moving components inside the oil.

Didnt you see slicks rig? It had moving cpu fan... thats fine, it will just go slower.

 

Ooh you mean liek the Hard drive. Yeah thats right.

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Didnt you see slicks rig? It had moving cpu fan... thats fine, it will just go slower.

 

Ooh you mean liek the Hard drive. Yeah thats right.

And the optical drive. I forgot if the PSU can be submerged.

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Do pc see a dual gpu card as 1 card or 2 in SLI/Crossfire? I ask this because some Mobos cant  support 2 card but can they support 1 card with 2 gpus?

A dual GPU card will be seen as a multiple GPU configuration ( Crossfire if AMD, SLI if Nvidia ).

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What's a floating point? Actually I'm not embarrassed to ask this, I never understood math.

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And the optical drive. I forgot if the PSU can be submerged.

his was

n0ah1897, on 05 Mar 2014 - 2:08 PM, said:  "Computers are like girls. It's whats in the inside that matters.  I don't know about you, but I like my girls like I like my cases. Just as beautiful on the inside as the outside."

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what is this part of the wire for? dont know what its called so i can even google it.

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what is this part of the wire for? dont know what its called so i can even google it.

IDK, but it's magnetic. That's all I know. :P

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On 5/27/2014 at 0:24 PM, peters.11 said:

how do mineral oil cooled PC's work and does it involve sinking components in a liquid.

Oil cooled PC's are basically PC's completely submerged in an oil bath. Since mineral

oil is non-conducting, the thing doesn't short out. By putting your components inside

a giant volume of liquid, you can remove heat very efficient. That said, you'll still need

to actively cool the oil the same you would do with a water cooled PC if the components

are reasonably powerful.

 

The only things that can't be submerged are hard drives, floppy drives, and optical

drives.Other then that, pretty much anything can work in oil.

 

 

On 5/27/2014 at 4:11 PM, StingBull said:

What's a floating point? Actually I'm not embarrassed to ask this, I never understood math.

Floating point is a way to represent decimal numbers in a binary system. The name

comes from the fact that there is no fixed position of the decimal point in the binary

representation of the number. The opposite of that is fixed point.

 

There are both single-precision, and double-precision floating point numbers used

in computing. The former is a 32-bit word, the latter a 64-bit word. From here on,

I'll show decimal (base 10) numbers as (number)10 and binary (base 2) numbers

as (number)2 to clearly show which is what.

 

To explain how the system works, we'll try to convert (0.375)10 to a single-precision

floating point number (32 bit). In such a number, the mantissa is 23 bit, the exponent

8 bit, and the sign bit --of course-- is one bit. By convention, the first stored digit is

assumed to be one, unless the exponent is zero. So, to reconstruct the decimal

representation, we can use 

(-1)^sign * 1.mantissa * 2^exponent

So, to represent (0.375)10, we first convert it to binary, which is (0.011)2 . Then,

we write in such a way that it starts with '1.', this gives us (1.1)2 * 2^(-2)10. Now,

we try to correlate that to the formula above: 

(-1)^sign * 1.mantissa * 2^exponent
(-1)^ 0   * 1.   1     * 2^ (-2)

We can see that the sign bit is (0)2, the mantissa is (1)2 , and the exponent is

(-2)10 . Now, you must know how to use two's complement to represent negative

numbers in binary. As this isn't part of this explanation, just assume that

(-2)10 = (110)2 .

 

We can then easily combine sign bit, mantissa, and exponent to make the

floating point representation: 0000 0000 1111 1111 1111 1111 1111 1110

 

 

On 5/27/2014 at 4:26 PM, mad dudy said:

what is this part of the wire for? dont know what its called so i can even google it.

That's called a ferrite bead or choke. It's basically a low-pass filter that makes

sure only DC voltages get through. It makes sure that clean power is provided

to the device it's connected to.

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What does it mean when someone says something is 'binned'. As in a CPU for example

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What does it mean when someone says something is 'binned'. As in a CPU for example

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