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Heya,
I looked around the first few pages, and hadn't seen this question asked, so I figured it was safe.
I haven't been in the OC scene in a while. I picked up my P4 Northwood 2.4 about 3 years ago (eh, something like that) and got it up to 2.7, but that is high as it would go. At that time, you could only OC through the Bios, so that is what I did.
Now, apparently from what I am seeing, there are windows programs you can download that let you OC while still running the OS and whatnot (like ClockGen).
How do the two compare? Is the software approach as stable as the hardware? Is there less of a chance of fubaring your comp. and having to clear CMOS with either one? Do the software solutions autimatically crank it up to the rated speed on bootup, or are there some safety features that will take it back to stock if your system doesn't want to boot at that speed?
What do most of you use?
I looked around the first few pages, and hadn't seen this question asked, so I figured it was safe.
I haven't been in the OC scene in a while. I picked up my P4 Northwood 2.4 about 3 years ago (eh, something like that) and got it up to 2.7, but that is high as it would go. At that time, you could only OC through the Bios, so that is what I did.
Now, apparently from what I am seeing, there are windows programs you can download that let you OC while still running the OS and whatnot (like ClockGen).
How do the two compare? Is the software approach as stable as the hardware? Is there less of a chance of fubaring your comp. and having to clear CMOS with either one? Do the software solutions autimatically crank it up to the rated speed on bootup, or are there some safety features that will take it back to stock if your system doesn't want to boot at that speed?
What do most of you use?