Can games run on an overclock..?

yeah it can run a game but has to be 100% stable

How do you tell if It's stable? On the OC guide, it doesn't say how to tell if It's stable.
And what's turbo?

FULL SPECS:


ALIENWARE ALX


CHASSIS COLOR: Cosmic Black ALX - 875 Watt Power Supply

PROCESSOR: Intel® Core™ i7 920 (2.66GHz, 8MB Cache)edit

OPERATING SYSTEM: Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium (64 bit) + Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium Upgrade Coupon - English

VIDEO CARD: Dual 1GB GDDR5 ATI Radeon™ HD 5870 Crossfire™ Enabled

MEMORY: 6GB Triple Channel 1600MHz DDR3

HARD DRIVE: 1TB RAID 0 (2x 500GB SATA-II, 7,200 RPM, 16MB Cache HDDs)

ADDITIONAL HARD DRIVE: 1TB - SATA-II, 3Gb/s, 7,200RPM, 32MB Cache HDD edit

OPTICAL DRIVE: Single Drive: 24X CD/DVD burner (DVD+/-RW) w/double layer write capability

MONITOR: 23-inch S2309W Widescreen Digital Flat Panel Monitor

Specs are fine. Btw, exactly how much did you spend on that???? (Why didn't you go with a DIY custom?)

Don't bother with an OC. Your system is great. A P4 is generations older than an i7. The clock speeds don't mean anything.

And Turbo is a trick the i7 does. Basically it self-overclocks when needed.

Well i would have to recommend against cyper power. They have great prices but i have heard way to many stories about them sending systems that arrive dead.

Not my choice either but the site does give a wide range of options so it was easy to match the OP's build.

Here's some THG fav's

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] m-builders

Blah. You guys are so mean! It's not like I'm going to spend the rest of my life building computers. I don't need to learn to build. I just want a good gaming PC.

With that alienware build I listed, would I need to overclock to run games that require 3.0GHz?

I can agree with the guys who talk about building, it does take a little more effort and research, but the nice thing is you can save money, and if something goes wrong with it, you don't have to worry as much about asking a company for help, as you can usually figure it out, the other nice thing is that you can keep upgrading your system incrementally and stay up to date instead of dropping that much cash every few years.

No. You don't need to overclock. Your rig is great and will be for the next several years.

Also, there's nothing wrong with buying a prebuilt system, it just that you're posting your question on a forum full of geek/builders, like myself, who spend their free time trolling Newegg for the best combos and tweaking their systems weekly. The response is to be expected because most everyone here can and does build their own rigs and given 3400 dollars to blow on a new system we'd all build 8 core workstations (and end up spending just a little more).

However, if you're interested in overclocking, the best advice is to scratch build. The knowledge gleaned from making your own systems is quite useful when it comes time to push a system beyond its specification. It helps to really know what parts you have. Prebuilt systems, even high-end ones with unlocked bioses are not ideal overclock machines unless it's a factory overclock (under warranty). Overclocking a prebuilt system often defeats the biggest benefit of having a prebuilt: warranty support.

You've bought about the best system you can. Don't fiddle with it. Enjoy it.

I'm not being judgmental here but I bought a PC from alienware, which was a HUGE mistake. It arrived a month after they said it would, after the Seagate barracuda HDD broke it took so much arguing as to how I was going to get a new one from them that I just went to my local store, bought a new one and fitted it myself to avoid the hassle.

A year later I bought new memory, cpu and graphics card and decided to fit them myself. I pretty much had to take apart the entire system to fit a mounting bracket for a custom heatsink on the back of the MOBO, and the satisfaction of doing everything myself was enormous. In short building or upgrading a PC is not hard, saves money and is rewarding. I'm not saying you made a mistake buying one, but in the future if you need to upgrade try doing it yourself, it's worth it

55% of all hardware income all over the world comes from induvidual parts did you know that? so i think more ppl are building pc's for them self then you think, even windows oem accounts for 18% of microsoft's income

yeah trust these guys they kno what their talking bout and its pretty easy building a pc its just like legos just connect the parts that fit together.