Hey there this is my first blog ever so this is going to be a milestone for myself today. I am going to talk about the basics to over-clock your Central Processing Unit (CPU) and running Ubuntu as your Operating System (OS). The system we will be using for this test will be a Amd Phenom II X6 1055T CPU, Asus M3N-HT motherboard revision 3302, 8 gigs of OCZ DDR2 1066 ram, Corsair Cooling Air Series A70 CPU cooler, Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste, Thermaltake TRX-1000M 1000W power supply and Ubuntu 10.10 64bit OS. I will not be going into any other parts of the system because they are not relevant to over-clocking the system.
The first thing I am going to talk about is why I picked these parts over generic parts. Remember these parts are what I felt at the time was the best choice for my budget and wants out of a system. First is the Amd Phenom II X6 1055T CPU from what I have read and have dealt with in the past. Amd runs cooler and is really good for over-clocking. When I bought the CPU it was also very cheap for a 6 core CPU for under $200. Next is the choice for the Arctic Silver 5 thermal paste over the stock thermal paste. I read that it does a better job transferring the heat from CPU to heat sink. I picked up the paste for under $20.00. Maybe one of the most important parts of the build is the Corsair Cooling Air Series A70 CPU cooler. The first thing I would have to say is that this cooler is VERY LARGE make sure you have the space in your case before you buy this. The cooler comes with two fans for a push pull cooling but can run with just one fan (I would highly recommend the two fans). I know there are other cooling types out there like water. But for myself I am to paranoid that there will be a leak and that will be it for the system. So that is why I stayed with a air cooling CPU. I picked up the cooler for under $60.00 I would "NOT" use a stock cooler to do over-clocking. Now for the motherboard the Asus M3N-HT. Not much I can say for this board at the time it was the only one I could find that would take all 4 sticks of my DDR2 ram. The reason for that issue was the fact DDR3 was being pushed out. It does do over-clocking very well and has a really good heat sink system for the north and south bridge. I was able to pick it up for under $250.00. The reason I picked OCZ ram was because from what I have read and was told they are really good for over-clocking. You need this because when you increase your front side bus speed for over-clocking you also increase the speed of your ram. You want to make sure that your ram can handle the increase if not the ram with start giving you errors in your programs. Now for the most important part of the over-clocking the power supply. I picked up a Thermaltake TRX-1000M 1000W power supply for the simple fact that I new I was going to need a lot of power. With all the extra cards and drives in my computer that extra power a over-clocked CPU would take is a lot. I was able to pick it up for under $250.00. I had a 650 watt OCZ power supply when I tried to over-clock a Intel CPU it fried the motherboard. I am glade it was only the motherboard and nothing else that went.
We'll this is the first part of this write up about over-clocking with Ubuntu. I will have more up about this in the next day or two. Cont. in Part 2
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