Advice needed for software overclocking

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Elite007

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Hi there,

I will get straight to the point. My old Core 2 Duo E6600 (Conroe series) CPU is giving me headaches in modern games like BF4, Ghosts etc even on lowest settings, so i decided to overclock it and get the max juice out of it until i upgrade my PC. But I came to know that my OEM Dell Motherboard 0HR330 won't allow me to overclock the CPU through BIOS, so I just wanted a quick suggestion that whether the software overlocking method with the PLL number and a software named "Clockgen" is safe or not??

Other specs are as follows:

GPU: Nvidia 9600GT 512MB
PSU: Dell OEM 500W
HDD: Samsung 320GB 3GB/s SATA drive
 
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MeteorsRaining
If you have 800MHz or higher speed memory, then yes you certainly can by increasing the multiplier alone, but since that's not an option as MoBo is locked. You can still try the software method but I'm not too fond of it, being an owner of HP built with a C2D (old rig), OCing has not been a great experience for me.
Upgrading the GPU would give you a real boost, still not good enough for High-ultra as it'd be bottlenecked by CPU, but still a lot better than the current card.
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It certainly isn't. Locked MoBos don't like tampering with Voltages too much and so you should not OC on it. Its not recommended in first place.
Also, what exactly do you mean by headaches? Considering your build, you shouldn't expect it to do much better than sub 30 FPS on lowest settings, and not sure with a C2D or not.
 
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Can it be overclocked upto 2.7-2.8Ghz without altering voltages??
Yeah its a very outdated rig but i plan to upgrade my GPU atleast in the near future.
 
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If you have 800MHz or higher speed memory, then yes you certainly can by increasing the multiplier alone, but since that's not an option as MoBo is locked. You can still try the software method but I'm not too fond of it, being an owner of HP built with a C2D (old rig), OCing has not been a great experience for me.
Upgrading the GPU would give you a real boost, still not good enough for High-ultra as it'd be bottlenecked by CPU, but still a lot better than the current card.
 
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You mean 800 MHz RAM?
 
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