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Sozakir
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Hi forum members,

 

Me and a friend of mine, are working on a paper for school about overclocking. This paper is the occlusion of Dutch "High school" and it's supposed to be quite comprehensive. The thing is, we're both "overclocking noobs" and we do want to do some overclocking ourselves. We were thinking of buying a cheap pc (2nd hand) and try overclocking on that, but we're wondering how good the results will be on a system that doesn't have proper overclocking support (no extra cooling, no unlocked processors). So, some questions:

 

1) Is it even possible to overclock a non-K series processor from Intel/AMD?

2) What brand would be most suitable to get some decent results for a low price, Intel or AMD?

3) We found a dutch website selling some cheap 2nd hand pc's; will any of the following CPU's give us any overclocking headroom?

     3.1) AMD Athlon 64 X2 4200+

     3.2) AMD Phenom II X2 B22

       (http://www.usedpc4sale.nl/nl/category/amd/) (http://www.usedpc4sale.nl/nl/category/intel-core2duo-/) (http://www.usedpc4sale.nl/nl/category/intel-pentium-dual-core-/)

       (We could potentially use an Intel Celeron G1820 which we saw Linus use, but we'd have to build a system around that which would be a bit pricey)

4) What are good benchmarks to run on such a low-end system?

5) What is the difference between overclockable and non-overclockable CPU's?

 

Any general tips would also be very helpfull, we hope to get lots of feedback here and excuse our "noobness" ;)

 

~Jonas & Jesse, The Netherlands             

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Reported.

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What's the point of posting if you're writing the post... logic af

#RIPTopGear  This is the best thread ever: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/53190-i-can-not-get-hard/ " French meetings are just people sitting in a semi-circle shouting at each other" -Dom Jolly  :lol:

My rig: 

   CPU: Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz | GPU: GTX 760 reference | PSU: Corsair RM750 | Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V | Motherboard: Gigabyte B85M D3H | Case: NZXT S340 White | RAM: 8GB EVO Potenza @ 1600MHz | Storage: 3TB Seagate HDD, 60GB OCZ SSD, 620GB Toshiba HDD | Mouse: Steelseries Rival @1000 CPi |  OS: Windows 10 Pro | Phone: iPhone 6S 16GB  
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/439354-why-nvidia/
 
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Post gonna be dead by the time you finish writing it. 

 

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prolly the same point as the point of replying to this topic, lel

wut

#RIPTopGear  This is the best thread ever: http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/53190-i-can-not-get-hard/ " French meetings are just people sitting in a semi-circle shouting at each other" -Dom Jolly  :lol:

My rig: 

   CPU: Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz | GPU: GTX 760 reference | PSU: Corsair RM750 | Cooler: Cooler Master Seidon 120V | Motherboard: Gigabyte B85M D3H | Case: NZXT S340 White | RAM: 8GB EVO Potenza @ 1600MHz | Storage: 3TB Seagate HDD, 60GB OCZ SSD, 620GB Toshiba HDD | Mouse: Steelseries Rival @1000 CPi |  OS: Windows 10 Pro | Phone: iPhone 6S 16GB  
http://linustechtips.com/main/topic/439354-why-nvidia/
 
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