Amateur Overclocking - Intel E5700

[murzar]

I got an Intel E5700 with Asus P5G41T-MLX motherboard. In the BIOS, there was an automatic overclocking option. I selected the '10%' option and my CPU was overclocked till 3.3 Ghz on air. I played 'The Witcher' for an hour without any issues (the Trade quarter has become much smoother now). Should I go further? Can anyone give some advice?

 

[henydiah]

I think it depends on you, if you are still using stock cooling stop it and if you have a good CPU cooler and RAM that is strong enough it could have gone even further with the addition of percent, but so you'll have to manually overclock it to not auto, because auto OC will not provide maximum results.
guide : http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/259899-29-core-overclocking-guide
and another overclock using the G41 rather heavy and quite difficult, you have to experiment on his own .. good luck

 

[murzar]

Best answer selected by murzar.

 

[murzar]

Thanks! I was satisfied with 3.3, didn't think that it would but it has significantly improved my speeds and 'The Witcher' is pretty smooth now.