- Feb 14, 2014
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Hey guys,
I posted about this computer once before when I was deciding whether to keep it or scrap it. I kept it and I have upgraded it since my last post.
I'm kinda bored so I was looking into tinkering with it some more.
I have an HP Pavilion P7-1421 desktop, I got it for free and was able to repair it so I customized it and made it into a nice computer for a few hundred bucks.
It's a stockboard, AMD Trinity A8 5500 and 16gb ddr3 1866mhz ram, gtx 750ti that's got 2gb gddr5 and a 4tb segate HDD.
I was wondering about whether overclocking this CPU would be worth it? It's a 3.2ghz with turbo to 3.7 already. On a regular load for me which is doing YouTube videos and some emulator gaming, the cpu temp according to DRP13 is usually between 67-71c.
So if I did overclock it I would need a better way to cool it probably.
Can I just buy any cooling system on Amazon and know it will go on my board? I was thinking about just going all out and getting a water cooling system. I'm not worried about the size of the cooler I can retrofit it if need be. I'm good at that kind of stuff and I usually leave the side off my computer anyway because I also do repair work on other machines and I'm constantly plugging hard drives in to test them with my computer and sometimes I swap ram to do tests on particular sticks.
I just don't see how I would know that the cooler would fit my CPU. I don't know how it attaches to the board. Is it just like a heatsink?
Are they universal?
I know I can't take any heatsink off a random computer and slap it on. Sometimes the screws don't fit or are in different places. They don't always seat properly either. Atleast with my experience. I couldn't take a heatsink off say a dell core 2 duo and put it in my computer and make it fit without drilling holes through my motherboard.. Which probably wouldn't work out very well.
Just curious if it would be worth it? Would I be able to see performance increase?
Again I'm just looking into this because I am bored. I'd like to learn more about overclocking, what better way to learn than to tinker?
If overclocking this CPU doesn't make sense maybe the ram or the graphics card?
My bios doesn't support overclocking but I know there is software that will let me do it.
I was going to look for an alternative bios for my board. But before I get into all that someone let me know whether this particular project would make any sense. Am I just wasting my time and money if I do it?
I mean I want to learn but at the same time I don't wanna put the work in on this computer if it's pointless.
I posted about this computer once before when I was deciding whether to keep it or scrap it. I kept it and I have upgraded it since my last post.
I'm kinda bored so I was looking into tinkering with it some more.
I have an HP Pavilion P7-1421 desktop, I got it for free and was able to repair it so I customized it and made it into a nice computer for a few hundred bucks.
It's a stockboard, AMD Trinity A8 5500 and 16gb ddr3 1866mhz ram, gtx 750ti that's got 2gb gddr5 and a 4tb segate HDD.
I was wondering about whether overclocking this CPU would be worth it? It's a 3.2ghz with turbo to 3.7 already. On a regular load for me which is doing YouTube videos and some emulator gaming, the cpu temp according to DRP13 is usually between 67-71c.
So if I did overclock it I would need a better way to cool it probably.
Can I just buy any cooling system on Amazon and know it will go on my board? I was thinking about just going all out and getting a water cooling system. I'm not worried about the size of the cooler I can retrofit it if need be. I'm good at that kind of stuff and I usually leave the side off my computer anyway because I also do repair work on other machines and I'm constantly plugging hard drives in to test them with my computer and sometimes I swap ram to do tests on particular sticks.
I just don't see how I would know that the cooler would fit my CPU. I don't know how it attaches to the board. Is it just like a heatsink?
Are they universal?
I know I can't take any heatsink off a random computer and slap it on. Sometimes the screws don't fit or are in different places. They don't always seat properly either. Atleast with my experience. I couldn't take a heatsink off say a dell core 2 duo and put it in my computer and make it fit without drilling holes through my motherboard.. Which probably wouldn't work out very well.
Just curious if it would be worth it? Would I be able to see performance increase?
Again I'm just looking into this because I am bored. I'd like to learn more about overclocking, what better way to learn than to tinker?
If overclocking this CPU doesn't make sense maybe the ram or the graphics card?
My bios doesn't support overclocking but I know there is software that will let me do it.
I was going to look for an alternative bios for my board. But before I get into all that someone let me know whether this particular project would make any sense. Am I just wasting my time and money if I do it?
I mean I want to learn but at the same time I don't wanna put the work in on this computer if it's pointless.
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