I have just built my first rig and I am currently working in the BIOS stuff. I have a P5N-E SLI Asus motherboard so it has options for overclocking and I was wondering to what degree would be safe. I have been looking at the articles here on the website and they are helping alot, but I kinda wanted to run this by some people first. I can do research by my judgment may be off by a good bit. I have:
9.8 inch fan in the case side that pulls air out
X dream 4 CPU fan that has 2200 RPM with an airflow of 33.75 CFM
Fan life is 40,000 hours.
I also have a 550 power supply that comes with its own fan.
Oh yeah and the CPU is a 3.4 intel dual processor.
I am thinking that with such big fan (9.8 is pretty freaking big) and a good CPU fan, I can get a bit of overclock without much damage. I am totally unexperienced so how much is safe? I read up on the cons of overclocking and I am willing to chop that cpu life expectancy down by a couple of years, but I don't want to have to go out and buy a new cooling system or worry about babysitting it for overloading. I just want to overclocking enough to get a little extra juice, but not have to checking to see if it is overloading. The bios allows me to set the overclock speed by percentage (I don't know if that is unusual or not) but that does allow me some precision (at least I assume).
Like I said I am new to this, so I may have told you what you don't need to know and nothing you do.
9.8 inch fan in the case side that pulls air out
X dream 4 CPU fan that has 2200 RPM with an airflow of 33.75 CFM
Fan life is 40,000 hours.
I also have a 550 power supply that comes with its own fan.
Oh yeah and the CPU is a 3.4 intel dual processor.
I am thinking that with such big fan (9.8 is pretty freaking big) and a good CPU fan, I can get a bit of overclock without much damage. I am totally unexperienced so how much is safe? I read up on the cons of overclocking and I am willing to chop that cpu life expectancy down by a couple of years, but I don't want to have to go out and buy a new cooling system or worry about babysitting it for overloading. I just want to overclocking enough to get a little extra juice, but not have to checking to see if it is overloading. The bios allows me to set the overclock speed by percentage (I don't know if that is unusual or not) but that does allow me some precision (at least I assume).
Like I said I am new to this, so I may have told you what you don't need to know and nothing you do.