I have not been over-clocking my pc for quite sometime now – Did it in the past with my AMD Athlon processor. I was thinking of briefly sharing my experience in over-clocking an ‘old PC’.

What I did:

Got a Gigabyte motherboard that supports AMD Athlon processors. Gigabyte at that time provides an easy way to set your own processor speed through the BIOS – Simple as that! However, there are many batch of processors produced at that time and you’ll need to pick the right one. Some of these processors are 1.8 GHz but are designed for up to 2800++, just that the manufacturer ‘lock’ the processor to a certain speed – this has got to do with their factory efficiency in producing microprocessor.

Unlike the classic pencil or carbon trick in the past, you don’t need to use it anymore. Simply apply a good thermal compound on the processor’s ‘die’ and apply it evenly. A good silver thermal compound is good. Place the processor into the socket and secure it by lowering the lever. Then make sure you get yourself a ‘bad ass’ heat sink fan! Copper is a good at conducting heat and usually these heat sink fans are made out of copper these days.

Of course there’s a fair percentage of chance that your processor will get fried along the way. Mine lasted close to 2 years and then gave up. But the performance that I got was fantastic!

Cheers! 

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