Hi,
I've used these forums for a while now and found them amazingly helpful the past few years, never had to ask a question so here goes, hopefully I'm in the right category
I've been upgrading an old machine and was thinking about overclocking it, question being, is it worth it? I have a feeling the graphics card is being bottle-necked severely by the cpu speed and upon further investigation found the cpu isn't running at full speed anyway (idles at 1600MHz but only 2400MHz under load from winrar benchmark/hardware test) so I think it's time for a tune-up...
1. How do I get this thing running at the labelled 2.66GHz/is there something holding it back?
2. Can I overclock this up to say 3.0GHz or higher ? if so, how?
I've bought a decent cooler and the highest reading I've gotten from Core Temp is 51c while running games for over 2 hours.
I've also downloaded cpu-z to check everything out but how do I post that info so you guys can see, I somehow doubt you want the 50-odd pages of information it puts out?
Basic info:
OS: WinXP 32-bit SP3
CPU: Core 2 Duo e7300
MB: Gigabyte G31M-S2L / p35
RAM: 2x Kingston KVR800D2N6 PC2-6400 @400MHz 6/6/6/18
GPU: GTX560 1Gb (out of place much?)
Core speed: 1600.2x6.0 when idling 2400.1x9 under load
Bus Speed: 266.7MHz
Rated FSB: 1066.7MHz
Thanks in advance, these forums are great
I've used these forums for a while now and found them amazingly helpful the past few years, never had to ask a question so here goes, hopefully I'm in the right category
I've been upgrading an old machine and was thinking about overclocking it, question being, is it worth it? I have a feeling the graphics card is being bottle-necked severely by the cpu speed and upon further investigation found the cpu isn't running at full speed anyway (idles at 1600MHz but only 2400MHz under load from winrar benchmark/hardware test) so I think it's time for a tune-up...
1. How do I get this thing running at the labelled 2.66GHz/is there something holding it back?
2. Can I overclock this up to say 3.0GHz or higher ? if so, how?
I've bought a decent cooler and the highest reading I've gotten from Core Temp is 51c while running games for over 2 hours.
I've also downloaded cpu-z to check everything out but how do I post that info so you guys can see, I somehow doubt you want the 50-odd pages of information it puts out?
Basic info:
OS: WinXP 32-bit SP3
CPU: Core 2 Duo e7300
MB: Gigabyte G31M-S2L / p35
RAM: 2x Kingston KVR800D2N6 PC2-6400 @400MHz 6/6/6/18
GPU: GTX560 1Gb (out of place much?)
Core speed: 1600.2x6.0 when idling 2400.1x9 under load
Bus Speed: 266.7MHz
Rated FSB: 1066.7MHz
Thanks in advance, these forums are great