OverClocking Soldering!!?

[stevogabe]

on xtremesystems forum i found a guy who oc'd his dell by soldering. www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=62471
thats sweet. i was wondering if this able to be done on the XPS.

[netring]

Yes i knew it was possible now my question is whether it will work for us.

[netring]

Well i reaqd into it, and it won't work for gen 1,2 owners since our chipset is 875p. For gen 2 and 3, you might be able to force your pc into the 1066 fsb mhz mode. Not sure though.

[devnull]

I dont believe that early gen3 owners (like myself) have the 925XE board like that guy was using. I think we have just the 925X. ... *shrug*

[netring]

well thats not gonna help us. *still waits for a hacked bios"

[calibos]

Its gonna help me with a 650 3.4 on a 925XE in my Gen 4. Woohoo! ;D Takes the sting out of the disappointment in the Dual cores needing a 955 and that future upgrade path not being available after all.

Not going to do it until Unreal 3 brings my system to its knees in 18 months or whatever but its good to know the potential is there for some overclocking on a Dell of all things!! ;D

[devnull]

You think unreal 3 engine is gonna bring your CPU to its knees? What about your graphics card, I think thats the greater problem at hand...

[netring]

I gto a tip instead of a gfx card get a ps3 ;D 7 cores. At e3 they already had a demo of ps3 running unreal 3 engine, runs it flawlessly, ps3's gpu is said to have more power than 2 6800 ultra in sli, plus u got 7 cores on one chip. ps3 is defiently a great system to buy.
Product name: PlayStation 3

Logo: PLAYSTATION(R)3

CPU

Cell Processor
PowerPC-base Core @3.2GHz
1 VMX vector unit per core
512KB L2 cache
7 x SPE @3.2GHz
7 x 128b 128 SIMD GPRs
7 x 256KB SRAM for SPE
* 1 of 8 SPEs reserved for redundancy
total floating point performance: 218 GFLOPS
GPU
RSX @550mhz
1.8 TFLOPS floating point performance
Full HD (up to 1080p) x 2 channels
Multi-way programmable parallel floating point shader pipelines
Sound
Dolby 5.1ch, DTS, LPCM, etc. (Cell- base processing)
Memory
256MB XDR Main RAM @3.2GHz 256MB GDDR3 VRAM @700mhz
System Bandwidth
Main RAM 25.6GB/s
VRAM 22.4GB/s
RSX 20GB/s (write) + 15GB/s (read)
SB< 2.5GB/s (write) + 2.5GB/s (read)
System Floating Point Performance
2 TFLOPS
Storage
Detachable 2.5" HDD slot x 1
I/O
USB Front x 4, Rear x 2 (USB2.0)
Memory Stick standard/Duo, PRO x 1
SD standard/mini x 1
CompactFlash (Type I, II) x 1
Communication
Ethernet (10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, 1000BASE-T) x 3 (input x 1 + output x 2)
Wi-Fi IEEE 802.11 b/g
Bluetooth 2.0 (EDR)
Controller
Bluetooth (up to 7)
USB 2.0 (wired)
Wi-Fi (PSP)
Network (over IP)

AV Output
Screen size: 480i, 480p, 720p, 1080i, 1080p
HDMI: HDMI out x 2
Analog: AV MULTI OUT x 1
Digital audio: DIGITAL OUT (OPTICAL) x 1
Disc Media
CD PlayStation CD-ROM, PlayStation 2 CD-ROM, CD-DA, CD-DA (ROM), CD-R, CD-RW, SACD, SACD Hybrid (CD layer), SACD HD, DualDisc, DualDisc (audio side), DualDisc (DVD side)
DVD: PlayStation 2 DVD-ROM, PlayStation 3 DVD-ROM, DVD-Video, DVD-ROM, DVD-R, DVD-RW, DVD+R, DVD+RW
Blu-ray Disc: PlayStation 3 BD-ROM, BD-Video, BD-ROM, BD-R, BD-RE

Definetly reads every format plus supports up to 1080p

[calibos]

devnull said:

You think unreal 3 engine is gonna bring your CPU to its knees? What about your graphics card, I think thats the greater problem at hand...

Well that goes without saying, but if a 3.4 at stock wasn't up to the job then Unreal 3 would be a no go, no matter what new card I put in the machine in 18 months. With the overclocked/solder mod equivelent of a 1066FSB 4ghz+ P4 Extreme edition I'd have a fighting change of running the game with the latest ati520 gpu or whatever.

As for the PS3 E3 demo's, I'm very skeptical at the moment. I reckon most of them were pre-renders and the actual games won't reach that graphical quality. Who remembers the PS2 tech demos of Final Fantasy. Everyone was expecting graphics like the final fantasy movie. When I actually got a PS2 as soon as it launched in Europe, I was like, "eh,my PC games look better than this". I reckon we'll all be disappointed come PS3 launch day when we first boot up our new consoles.