Should I buy or do it myself?

[LikeToOC]

Hi, All,

There are sites selling pre-tested overcloked CPUs here for a premium,
do you think it worths it? Or does the extra time spent tweaking it is
trival?

TIA

[Lacky]

Do a little research first on which CPU's/speed are best for overclocking
and weigh this against the extra cost of a OC CPU. You may find the
particular CPU/speed you want is very likely to reach the OC speed
advertised, in this case it is a waste of cash paying extra.

However on more marginal CPU overclocks if the premium is not too high
then go for it, especially if the company such as www.overclockers.co.uk
will guarantee that you will be able to reach atleast the advertised
speed (or they will replace the processor with no quibble).

Thu, 31 Aug 2000 10:03:52 -0400, LikeToOC(Like...@hotmail.com) wrote...

[Angilion]

There is also an extra factor: dependibility. A good pre-tested OC
company will guarantee the CPU at the higher speed. No-one
will guarantee a CPU if you overclock it yourself. Get something
wrong and wreck it, and you're out of pocket by whatever you
spent on it. If it doesn't overclock, hard luck. You're stuck at
the lower speed.

Try www.overclockers.co.uk. They guarantee o/c CPUs for
a year. I have bought a complete system from them (without
monitor) and a friend of mine has bought a motherboard, CPU
and memory from them. Neither of use have had any problems
and our oc'd CPUs both run very cool (9C above ambient
for mine without case fans, 7C for his since he fitted two case fans,
both after full load for hours).

I don't know how good they are for overseas delivery though.
They're local to me. They know what their talking about and
their shop is just what I look for - the money is spent on hardware
rather than on nice stands and decor.
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