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Overclocking: Q9550 Air Cooled Overclocks on the X38 platform

Posted by admin On September - 27 - 2009

Overclock Intel Q9550

As always here on mods-n-clocks an article covering the overclocking of a processor follows in the footsteps a few weeks after the processor’s review. So here to compliment the Q9550 review is an overclocking article that aims to provide an example of how far you might be able to overclock the Q9550 with just fairly standard air cooling.

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Gigabyte 4850 Graphics Card

Everyone likes to know how far they can expect to be able to overclock a certain graphics card. This is especially true if they are in the market to buy one. Most people will attempt an un-modified overclock first and this is just what I’ve done here. So exactly how much further did I manage to take it?

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Overclocking: Pushed my XFX 7900GS from 450/660 to 580/860

Posted by admin On November - 5 - 2008
XFX 7900GS Graphics Card

The 7900GS was a pretty good budget buy when it came out and played many games at good detail settings and resolutions. However now it’s starting to show its age and could do with an overclocking boost. Fortunately the 7900GS is one of those cards that seem born to overclock.

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Microsoft Windows Logo

There are many programs that run in windows that are very useful to the overclocker, beginner and expert alike. In this article I aim to highlight the good ones and you’ll be glad to know that almost all of them are available for free.

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Microsoft Windows Logo

There are many programs that run in windows that are very useful to the overclocker, beginner and expert alike. In this article I aim to highlight the good ones and you’ll be glad to know that almost all of them are available for free.

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Example BIOS screen

We’ve looked at some PC and overclocking theories and mentioned BIOS settings on several occasions. So how do you actually go about making those settings changes? This section of my beginner’s overclocking article covers just that and shows example screenshots from 3 different motherboard BIOS screens.

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Beginner's Overclocking, Part 3 – Making BIOS setting changes

Posted by admin On September - 9 - 2008
Example BIOS screen

We’ve looked at some PC and overclocking theories and mentioned BIOS settings on several occasions. So how do you actually go about making those settings changes? This section of my beginner’s overclocking article covers just that and shows example screenshots from 3 different motherboard BIOS screens.

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Beginner’s Overclocking, Part 2- Clock Speeds and Buses

Posted by admin On August - 22 - 2008
Graph showing performance increase

To overclock well it’s useful to understand how the clock speeds in a PC are generated and especially how they interact with each other. In this article I aim to do just that.

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Beginner's Overclocking, Part 2- Clock Speeds and Buses

Posted by admin On August - 22 - 2008
Graph showing performance increase

To overclock well it’s useful to understand how the clock speeds in a PC are generated and especially how they interact with each other. In this article I aim to do just that.

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Graph showing performance increase

Have you heard about PC overclocking and been interested but not known quite where to start? Or maybe you need some extra performance from your PC for gaming or video editing but don’t want to pay out on upgrades? Read on… maybe I can help you.

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