Is it your hobby or do you rather wonder what´s the point?

Some people put a lot of time, effort and money to squeeze the last Mhz´s out of their outdates systems. Sometimes more than what it would cost to simply update. If you don´t know all the risks it can bring.. pooof! Makes you think..

Anyway, I tuned my mobo a bit, from 800 -> 900 Mhz. Mobo temp only rised 4 celsius. I must be missing something...?

Soo, what do you think?

Your processor won't last very long when you constantly tweak.

Have a look at your processor temp, I suspect its gone a bit higher than the mobo temp has.

well, it is practically the first time I seriously tweak. Temperatures: Mobo / Processor / Graph. Card - 42/50/57 C

They didn´t raise notably, graph card cannot be clocked any more. I suppose my mobo (MSI KT333) is simply good for overclocking.

An obsession for me. The point is getting the last few mhz out too, though they arent as less as they seem to you, on systems with higher bus speeds and clock multipliers , overclocking can give you astonishing results.
Anyways i wrote a guide to overclocking a while back( thank you andrew for checking it ) so if anyone wants one, i could give it to 'em [img]tongue.gif[/img]

Unfortunately, you dont get much out of it with a decent rig. Any mobo that has a 800Mhz FSB on it already has enough power to run any game at full specs, and will probably be acceptable several years from now - CPU power has followed moore's law and doubled every 18 months for decades now, but games requirements haven't.

Too true! When was the last time you checked a game's minimum specs and said, "Oh darn! I can't run it!"? It hasn't happened in a long while for me!

True to some extent, but it´s cheaper than updating your graphics card every year. It´s hard to predict what game developers are coming up with next. I suppose things are fine now as I have 800 Mhz, but if I´d have, say 400 Mhz, not even the latest Radeon would necessarily make every game roll like a dream. Still, graphics cards play a greater role nowadays..

Overclocing used to be big back in the 300MHZ days, but now it's a complete waste of time. CPU's over 2.0GHZ are dirt cheap these days, and if you can show me any consumer grade app that requires 2GHZ or more to run, I'll be impressed.

For bragging rights maybe. I've overclocked a 1.2GHZ T-Bird to 1.8GHZ before without breaking a sweat, but it's not worth the trouble these days. Software hasn't even come close to approaching hardware development.

The only reason I see for overclocking these days is to prove how big your cojones are. If all your care about is benchmark numbers, then fly at it but don't come running to me when you start smelling something funny coming from your case. :D

overclocking is even better now cuz the processors are very fast and when u overclock it becomes faster...Overclocking rulz!