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Thinking about having ago with my computer as its not quite powerful enough for me but I cant afford to buy a new one. Anyone dabbled in this dark art? Is it worth doing or just too dangerous?

I think it would really depend on whether your hardware was suited to it or not

Probably the first thing to look at is how much control your motherboard offers. i.e. ability to clock the cpu, ram, pci bus, etc individually, or whether all the ratios are fixed, or whether you have to choose from presets of ratios

I am using an overclocked Core 2 Duo. It is rock stable with standard cooling. I have over clocked since the days of the original Celeron 266 (which was perfectly OC'd to 400). The real trick to good OCing is not to push it. A lot of guys are proud to get a post at boot and claim victory with these enormous clock ratios. But there are a lot of things that come into play when you are OCing. Memory speed, video card, heat handling, case cooling etc. My prefered method is rather conservative so that the computer runs at all conditions on hot days, rock stable. As such I have overclocked my 2.13Ghz to 2.56. 20% is not bad. You have to ask yourself are you prepared to spend some time and work to get 20% or just go out and buy an $xx cpu upgrade.

I overclocked my C2D E6600 and now I am overclocking my C2Q Q6600. As one of the posts above mentions, it all depends on your hardware not just the CPU on how far you can push things and remain stable.

can you please give us your mobo and voltage specs?

Asus P5B Deluxe/Wifi
C2Q Q6600
4 x 1GB Corsair XMS Memory DDR2 800

FSB = 334

CPU Volts 1.34 not sure exactly what it is since its been awhile but its within the stock range of the CPU

Anything else you want to know?

EDIT: Q6600 is a G0 stepping which is very important. The G0s tend to run vastly cooler than the B3s and have a higher heat tolerance.

nice...so it clocks up to about 3ghz right?

Yes it clocks up to 3.01 GHz with no issues on air cooling. I just moved so my water cooling setup is not well setup I am sure I should have no problems comfortable running 3.5 GHz

stock fan? how hot is your CPU?

also, have you stress tested the overclocked CPU?

Not on the stock fan but on an aftermarket HSF, Silverstone Nitrogen NT01v2. Yes been stress tested no issue hottest it got was 55C underload. Even my C2D E6600 had no issues running at 3 GHz with just an mid level aftermarket HSF. Ran it at 3.2 GHz on watercool constantly, 3.4 GHz was just too hot for my tastes but it would run it and satble.

The 3.5 GHz won't happen until I am on water cooling again which I hope to have it all setup again this weekend.

I've read that the quads don't OC as well as the duals, so be careful

nebulae wrote:I've read that the quads don't OC as well as the duals, so be careful

That was the B3 steppings that were pretty painful to OC. The G0s are *suppose* to be a lot better. Of course I am just happy getting 3 GHz on it and anything after that is gravy.

yeah, bro, that's great...you got 12ghz of processing power!

my e6600 is fickle at OCing. I can get it to 2800 or so, but then sometimes at boot, one of the cores is at 100% for no reason, so I decided to just leave it alone...I got more than I need anyways...

nagal wrote: FSB = 334

times 4, right?