Need help gonna OC friends Computer

OCing a friends computer is a bad idea!

Theres no guarantee as to the stability or limitation of any brand new hardware, can you afford to replace your mistakes out of your own pocket, because in my book thats what a friend should do> No questions asked!

Guiding them at their request is one thing, actually doing it yourself is another, you need to at least think about your responsibility in this endeavor, and to what extent you're willing to stand behind what you do!









I had a friend that was going to do something similar took it upon himself like he was the guru of his endeavor, going to show us how smart he was but after 5 hours of not bringing his promises to reality, he gave up and left us with a computer completely dead in the water.

Did he come back to resolve what he'd done?

No!

Who Did?

I DID!

Is he still a friend?

Not Really!

Not like we were!

Because at the time he couldn't afford to fix what he'd messed up!
He originally had good intentions!
But never thought about! What If ??? !!!

So this isn't to insult you, but to get you to think!

What If ???

4ryan6 has a very good point. I'd never screw with anything that belongs to one of my friends, unless he/she asked me to.

If you do overclock your friend's CPU, there's a good chance that everything will go smoothly, you'll get a good overclock, and your friend will have a smokin' fast PC. But there's always a chance that something could go wrong, something which can cost you a lot.

If your friend is going to OC it to game, I suggest insisting to your friend buy a XBOX 360 or PS3 (when it comes out) is a better solution. There are no computer games on the market today that can compare to the resolution and enjoyment of one of these console. Many of the XBOX 360 games out today are optimized for it and look absolutely amazing.

However, if you bud is looking for a dvd ripping machine, I have to advise against that. If you don't know already, ripping and transcoding a copy protected movie is illegal and the possibility of getting in trouble with law enforcement is something to be concerned about.

But if your bud insist on getting a high powered machine, I can't advise on which ram is better.
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The OP never said anything about his friend playing games or ripping DVDs on this computer. This is a PC forum, and the people on this forum play games on their PCs; please stop recommending that they get a $400 toy (xbox 360) with $60 games.

I agree with everybody, and that you should NEVER OC a friend's
machine.

Even if everything goes right. If that machine ever has problems.
What did u do to it? Come and fix it.

I basically rebuilt my friends pc a little while ago, so he trusts me, and if i did break something i would take responsiblity and buy him a replacement. And he already has an Xbox 360. Is anyone going to actually help with the question or just criticize the fact that I'm going to oc my friends computer. As I said before, I'm not going for a world record oc.

As long as the RAM is the same as in DDR or DDR2 for OCing you'll be better off going with a higher speed capable RAM, it will clock itself down for setup purposes, I flat use Corsair period so all my suggestions would fall in that category, even though RAM in that performance category isn't cheap.

Its important that your choice takes into consideration the CAS settings the RAM will run at when going to 2 1gb Modules, you may not need the LED lights that Corsairs pro series has, but running at CAS 2 straight out of the box without even increasing the Dimm Voltage is a plus in itself.

Now is that enough of a reccomendation for you to go on, or do you need us to go shopping for you too!  

DDR2 doesn't run as fast of CAS settings as DDR can but its early in the DDR2 realm It will get faster.

Oh what the hey!

Yea even though I am a Corsair fan, Corsair RAM doesn't run well in every brand M/B and I do know that, there was no initial mention of the intended M/B to be used just a Conroe CPU so we're asked to give advice on partial information, Soooo! Corsair may not even be the brand that should be used, let me try my mind reading. [Puts hands on head] Not getting anything!  

What are the core/memory speeds on that OC X1600?

And, because I don't know what I'm doing, I need someone to tell me.

:roll:

So your card is essentially a cut-price X1600XT?

Yeah first of all make sure you and your friend have an agreement that if anything get fried or screwed during overclocking that you're not responsible for it. That way he won't pull you to the court with Judge Judy. Anyways for the rams a DDR2800 is a good overclocking rams but you really don't need to spend that much money. I have been using a DDR2533 XMS2 from Corsair. It is very stable at overclocking and works just as good as DDR2800. Overclockers knows that when it comes to selecting rams for overclocking it is more important to have tighter timings than frequency. You can use a DDR2533 and it would able to support the overclocked cpu just as good as the more expensive DDR2800 or even a DDR21066. So as you can see you don't really need to have to pay more for a DDR2800 as with DDR2533 can do overclocking just as well.

Im using DDR2533 and comparing to my buddy's DDR800 at same cpu overclock. With real application I could see any big difference. But with no overclocking the DDR2800 is faster than the DDR2533.

People responded in a helpful manner - knowing it can cause some
problems - I tried to point out - IF a problem occurs - your friend
might assume it's OCed related -

Maybe - you should of ask the question - without all the fluff -
I need to know what RAM is best for OCing, not, I'm a nice
guy doing my friend a favorite by Ocing his machine, blah. blah.