How much can i oc my cpu with a stock cooler

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krisschils1256

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OK so I have a intel 2 quad core Q9650 3.0 ghz cpu and I want to oc because when playing games like bf4 there cpu goes to like 90% load at all times and I want to give my cpu more room to run

so what can I oc with a stock cooler

thanks
 
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Supahos
Only real way to answer that is to pick an OC and try it. You can't do it much but each user will have different results. Make SURE You have a temperature monitoring program such as HWinfo when you set the OC, then try running prime 95 and make sure your temps stay in check. I would run prime before I attempted any OC just to see where you are now and how much headroom you might have. This is a pretty risky venture. You can buy a decent cooler for $30 so I would suggest that. If you plan to upgrade at some point pick a cooler that has brackets for both your current socket, and 1150 (or am3+ if you plan to build an amd rig). This way your cooler investment is usable later as well.
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Only real way to answer that is to pick an OC and try it. You can't do it much but each user will have different results. Make SURE You have a temperature monitoring program such as HWinfo when you set the OC, then try running prime 95 and make sure your temps stay in check. I would run prime before I attempted any OC just to see where you are now and how much headroom you might have. This is a pretty risky venture. You can buy a decent cooler for $30 so I would suggest that. If you plan to upgrade at some point pick a cooler that has brackets for both your current socket, and 1150 (or am3+ if you plan to build an amd rig). This way your cooler investment is usable later as well.
 
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Both answers above are true because this can very a LOT. Some CPUs will clock up very nicely on stock volts. Others don't OC well at all without high end cooling.

Try a mild OC and be careful to watch your temps with the stock cooler. But for any serious OC enthusiast, you want a good aftermarket cooler for sure.
 
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getochkn

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The older chips like that were so much harder to overlock. Since the "K" series of Intel and the "FX" series of AMD where they give unlocked multipliers, it's so much easier to overclock and find a good balance between a simple multiplier overclock and FSB overclock. On your chip, all you can do is increase FSB, which increases the speed at which RAM, PCI express, everything runs and usually limits how much you can overclock as older systems like that don't take a huge FSB increase.

This generation of intel or amd's, easily a 500mhz overclock on just about any "K"/"FX" chip, even on stock without touching the bus or voltages.
 
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th3parasit3

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Just do yourself a favor and buy a good cooler and new paste. Then you can overclock with less fear that you are going to cook your CPU and be doing a full rebuild.

Also, when you do scrap that build, toss the stock cooler back on and salvage the cooler you bought and put it on your new processor.
 
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