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Ok, you might not notice a gaming boost because your video will bottleneck it. But you will notice a general computing boost, i.e. things will be snappier and programs will load slightly faster.
In overclocking you never want to just take your CPU as high as it will go. Always find a safe spot. Just to boost it a little, not supercharge it.
Also, do you have adequate cooling? How many case fans? CPU fan or heatsink? if you have the Stock CPU fan atleast, you will be able to be safe at a mild overclock.
The easiest way to overclock is to adjust your FSB(frontside bus) speed. I take it you have DDR 400 RAM, do you know? doesn't matter anyhoo for the basics. Any way, When you start up you can go into your BIOS by pressing F1 or what ever it says when you start up. And find your memory speeds. Should either be 133 or 200 MHz(not sure, never OC'd an intel,) but if you turn that up by say 5-15MHz you will have a possibly stable OC and a slightly faster processor.
Notice how my CPU is overclocked from 2.0 to 2.4 GHz. I turned my RAM speed up to 240MHz and that directly went to the processor. On all CPUs there is a multiplier. Mine was 10. So 10x240 = 2400MHz. You will notice how almost all processors are at an even number for speed. This is because it is much easier to just have a solid number as a multiplier.
There are different things with hyper transport and stuff with AMD processors that I neither understand nor care about. Everything else is fine for me at stock settings.
If you need me to help at all I will try my best.
AMD Phenom II X6 1100T 4GHz(20 x 200) 1.5v 3000NB 2000HT, Corsair Hydro H110 w/ 4 x 140mm 1500RPM fans Push/Pull, Gigabyte GA-990FXA-UD5, 8GB(2 x 4GB) G.Skill RipJaws DDR3-1600 @ 1600MHz CL9 1.55v, Gigabyte GTX760 OC 4GB(1170/1700), Corsair 750HX
Detailed PC Specs: http://my.afterdawn.com/estuansis/blog_entry.cfm/11388 |
