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If I were to over clock my q9550 @ 2.83Ghz to 3 would I notice an increase of performance?
Does anyone have a good tut on how to overclock?
PS: How do I check if my BOIS is locked? Since the computer is pre-built but it's the type were you choose what components you want.
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Karakawe
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What model computer? Most OEM computers won't allow you to overclock in BIOS, but you can see.
There would be a performance increase, you just may not notice it. This is a thread I've been directing new overclockers to.
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A 200MHZ wouldn't create that much performance boosts.
If you have no idea on what your doing, then don't try it.
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| Flaming wrote: | A 200MHZ wouldn't create that much performance boosts.
If you have no idea on what your doing, then don't try it. |
He's right. You may on accident cause permanent damage to your PC/hardware if you don't know what you're doing. If you really, really wanted to try it, just increase the clock speed in normal intervals booting up after each increase and testing to see if your systems stable, as if it turns out it's not, you may easily reboot and set the clock speed back to what it was before. Increasing voltage to the CPU is where it gets dangerous, so if you're unexperienced or don't have a proper CPU cooling solution, stay away from it!
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: |
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| Godetan wrote: | | Flaming wrote: | A 200MHZ wouldn't create that much performance boosts.
If you have no idea on what your doing, then don't try it. |
He's right. You may on accident cause permanent damage to your PC/hardware if you don't know what you're doing. If you really, really wanted to try it, just increase the clock speed in normal intervals booting up after each increase and testing to see if your systems stable, as if it turns out it's not, you may easily reboot and set the clock speed back to what it was before. Increasing voltage to the CPU is where it gets dangerous, so if you're unexperienced or don't have a proper CPU cooling solution, stay away from it! |
^ .. Cooling solution is very important. Don't try to overclock your cpu if you're using the stock fan that came with your cpu, it most likely can't handle it. A good fan that I would recommend for overclocking is the Zalman CNPS9700. Power Supply is also important when you adjust the voltage.
Even though when you adjust the voltage you can overclock your cpu much better, my advice is still not to touch the voltage unless you know what you're doing or you could be risking some damage to your cpu. If you want to overclock your cpu, try googling some tips and guides on it.
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Karakawe
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You don't have to overclock in small intervals if you're doing something you know your CPU can handle. 200MHz from stock on a C2D/C2Q, you really don't have anything to worry about.
Temperature barely changes before volt modding if at all.
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MHZ doesn't damage anything, voltage does.
Worst case scenario is a crash (or you trip the thermal warning, and your shit simply shuts off) unless you put your voltage through the roof like an idiot.
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I would rather look onto the CPU:RAM ratio, and maybe change something there.. also u can simply check if it would give a noticeable increase of performance... just get yourself into the situation u think u need more performance, and press ctrl+alt+del check if ur CPU is near 100%, if not, then it isn't your CPU.
But as stated before, it might be a slowly clocked RAM, so try to speed it up (the MHZ not the CL timings, since they have a max of ~5% of your total speed)
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