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ASUS Ultimate 2009 Overclocking Show is an upcoming event in Cebu sponsored by ASUS – the world’s leading motherboard manufacturer and certainly the best mobo in the whole wide world hehe… (Link 1, Link 2, and Link 3) Although I have been using an ECS mobo for quite some time and as well as Gigabyte and MSI mobos in our office before, ASUS has never been a problem to me and it’s still alive and kicking until now. My ECS lasted only for more than a year, MSI and Gigabytes never worked fully stable and they both suck in features wise and in overclocking. I will not recommend those cheap mobos based on my practical experience!!!
Now, speaking of overclocking ASUS is very capable and popular to that in fact annually ASUS is always conducting an overclocking contest. A sample video shown below. There are so many geeks and bunch of supernerds together and they will save the world forever! haha…
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As you can see, they’re using some liquids to cool off their system. The basic idea of overclocking is the more you overclock and the more voltages used, the hotter the component gets. Some desperate overclockers are using liquid nitrogen just to reach the maximum overclock speed in GHz.
Overclocking is mostly used by gamers to improve performance levels by about 15%,20% sometimes or mainly to increase the fps(frames per second)in a game. There are many types of overclocking like cpu,gpu and ram memory.
The cons though is it might shorten life of components and temperatures start to increase.
Some pros can even overclock to increase their performance level by about 40% with stability
Well, the highest cpu clock speed achieved in AMD processors is shown in the image below
Via AMD Geeks
and in Intel processors
Via Engadget
I don’t know if these are stable or not. AMD’s fastest FX single core chips are very hard to overclock, and AMD’s dual core are hard to reach 3GHz, yet Intel’s dual core chips usually can reach near or just over 4GHz only using a good air cooling system.
The fastest processor today is at 128 Billion computations per second made by the Japanese. Source
There are always those who are willing to take things one step further than others. Overclocking is cool and all, but this extends beyond what some would perhaps call useful. Still a milestone though.
CEBU EVENT: Asus Ultimate 2009 Overclocking Show will be held @ Entertainment Plaza (near Food Court) SM City Cebu, May 23, 2009 at around 3:00-5:00PM. This is actually an Asus PC Fair which will be held on May 14-24, 2009. Cebu Bloggers are also invited in this event. For more information, please visit the CBS forum.
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May 16th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
My personal experience with ASUS P5PL2 last 2006 was really bad… It didn’t last for just even a year… also some of those who asked me to repair their PCs, after isolating the problems – most of them have defective motherboards… Since then, I personally didn’t buy ASUS mobo… I didn’t even recommend this brand…
In fairness to MSI, I personally have had a good experience with this… with my P6NGM-L -until now it’s still functional… And it still works well… One good thing I can advice to non-techy peps – conduct preventive maintenance on your system…
Regarding overclocking, if your just an ordinary computer user (I mean, if you’re not a nerd computer gamer for ex.) – why will you overclock? you’ll just destroy your system… some of the electronic components on your system were not designed to resist and compensate such heat for over-voltage and over-current… overclocking needs understanding on your system specs or else you will need another penny to buy…
Just a friendly advice…
Technologian
http://cite-technologian.blogspot.com/
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September 27th, 2009 at 2:33 am
Very informative. from 3 G to 8 is great.
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