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OC'ing

g5hn710m4xpdwy · 2005-05-13 09:31:19

would it be easy to OC a dell? it's P4 CPU: 2.80 wit 512mb of ram. Im pretty new to all of this and i aint sure of most of it. So... should i overclock it? If i do cause of dell and there fag-i-ty case shapes and so on. will it be easy enough for me to put in a watercooler and an up-grade to 1gig of ram? plz help me out…

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would it be easy to OC a dell? it's P4 CPU: 2.80 wit 512mb of ram. Im pretty new to all of this and i aint sure of most of it. So... should i overclock it? If i do cause of dell and there fag-i-ty case shapes and so on. will it be easy enough for me to put in a watercooler and an up-grade to 1gig of ram? plz help me out here

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#2 13-05-2005 9:34am

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The up-grade to 1gig of ram should be easy enough once you know what type of ram is in the box already. If you havent tryed over clocking before then I would stay away from the water cooling.

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#3 13-05-2005 9:35am

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Dell motherboards are usually locked, and therefore Dells can't generally be overclocked

Sorry...

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#4 13-05-2005 10:02am

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oh thats a bugger! well should double the ram help the comp at all and an upgrade to the hdd? (it only as 100 gigs)

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#5 13-05-2005 10:08am

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Doubling the RAM should help the PC a lot, increasing hard drive space is secondary, as it mostly doesn't have a lot to do with how the PC performs. However if you're running out of space, or intend to use a lot I would advise you to get a second hard drive for storage.

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#6 13-05-2005 10:21am

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ok thx. ill work on gettin the ram asap and well i deffo need the hd i wiped a load of games recently cause i was running low on space and the comp ran slower and i mean slower!
thx
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#7 13-05-2005 10:39am

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defrag the hdd after deleting that much

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#8 13-05-2005 10:42am

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ehh... ya wat? what does defrag mean? i dont really care hugly about that bit cause my bro (genericname) is a comp wiz and did it

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#9 13-05-2005 10:51am

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Flunked wrote:

ehh... ya wat? what does defrag mean? i dont really care hugly about that bit cause my bro (genericname) is a comp wiz and did it

Your parents are cruel, imagine calling a child "genericname" :rolleyes:

Defrag is an option when you right click on the drive and choose Properties -> Tools

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#10 13-05-2005 3:39pm

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You should be defragging your pc at least once a month. Especially if you add and delete programs a lot. This is the reason why you get slow down and it will happen again if you don't defrag. I recomend getting diskeeper lite which will constantly keep an eye on how fragmented your HD is and will tell you when you need to defrag. It also does the job quicker and shows more detail than the standard windows defrag program. For best results start in safe mode, defrag from there and don't do anything on the pc until it's finished.

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#11 13-05-2005 4:43pm

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What Dell is it - check shop4memory.com for cheap Dell Ram - think a gig is bout 150 for a 2400.

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#12 13-05-2005 6:15pm

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Nukem wrote:

What Dell is it - check shop4memory.com for cheap Dell Ram - think a gig is bout 150 for a 2400.

Nukem

Have a Dell in the house and it ran fine on 1gb of Twinmos. Now running on 512mb of Cosair Value no problem. Its a 4600 btw.

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#13 13-05-2005 9:11pm

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erm its a 8300

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#14 13-05-2005 9:28pm

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I have a dell can't be overclocked, still good though(selling it,p4 5900xt) the psu isn't up to it, the cooling is not up to it and the mobo won't let you. Having said that it can run all recent games

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#15 13-05-2005 9:30pm

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Ya its 121 euro or 58 euro for 1gb/512mb del. from shop4memory - cant complain with that. As said other brands do work but check it out dont want to spend money for nout. Check your memory slots as well (some modesl only have two where others have four - cringe) there may be 2*256 in there so you'll need 2*512 for a gig. What gfx you got?

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#16 13-05-2005 9:43pm

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the grx card is a ATI 9800pro and is there any way of finding the rest out wit out opening my case?

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#17 13-05-2005 10:11pm

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run cpuz (google it) and it will tell you how many ram slots or sisoft SANDRA will give you all the info about your pc. A 9800pro is good. Another problem you may have on your pc is adware and spyware , download adaware or sumthing and run that.

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#18 13-05-2005 10:16pm

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ok thx. and the ad-ware and spy-ware was all over it! i scanned recently and found 160 or sumthin
erm what is run cpuz? how do i get it? will you explain more (im a noobie a this and wanna learn)

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#19 13-05-2005 10:21pm

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Flunked wrote:

ok thx. and the ad-ware and spy-ware was all over it! i scanned recently and found 160 or sumthin

hehehe. thought so, its a major problem these days

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#20 13-05-2005 11:52pm

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CPUZ and bible according to boards

Nukem

EDIT:Sisoft is in there,and just wondering if you had 160 blips, what firewall and AV do you have - check that sticky for two good ones; AVG Grisoft and Sygate Firewall might help ya

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