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OC'ing the CPU and folding

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I have an A64 3000+, socket 939, on an MSI mobo.

The question is, if I OC the processor(its sitting at stock right now) will that increase my folding time?

Ie, the folding time on my 7500 WU, is 25m a frame, if I OC the CPU, will it increase that time?

Just curious on anyones thoughts. I was pretty sure folding is CPU speed dependent.

thanks again for helping out a newbie!

 
Overclocking will definitely make it fold faster, decreasing the time per frame.

Oldbenwa
 
Overclocking a cpu will decrease your folding time with each work unit.
So overclock a cpu by 10% then the workunit will take approx 10% less time.

But you MUST check that the overclock is rock stable before you fold as you dont want to send bad data back.

Luck.......... :D
 
Kodiak, could you explain what you mean there?

I have OC'd the processor before, and i have gotten 20% oc on this puppy, with no problem.

I have a lot of air moving in the case, and i have a gigabyte rocket cooler on it, so it stays pretty cool most of the time.

So i think i will ramp it up, maybe 10%, and see what kind of love i get from it.

Thanks,

Chris
 
Run memory test first

then run your oc and after use prime 95

if both memtest and prime 95 both run for 24 hours stable w/o problems, then you will have no problems with f@h running on your system :)

OC'ing in general.. and OC'ing then running it at 100% using things like F@H are slightly different, with some OC's you have WU's that terminate early (bad thing) and a waste of time, so as long as its stable with those two tests then it will run F@H fine



http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=906681

here is a similar thread started a day or so ago with more info
 
Definitely OC if you can, but make sure it's stable, or you're wasting your time (and Stanford's)...I got my A64 3500 Winchester up from 2.2ghz to 2.53 stable. Helped the times alot.
 
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