Overclocking Old Computer

[iraklitelie]

Hello,

I have an old CPU "Intel Core 2 Duo" which is 2.33 GHz, a GPU "Geforce GT 440" and 6 Gigabytes of RAM (DDR) and I want to overclock it!
Is it safe and how do I do it?!
Just in case you want to know my motherboard is "Asus 5PK-E".

If you want any further information about the hardware that is in my system ask me.

Thank you for helping!

 

[clutchc]

That was a good board for OC'ing in its day. So yes, it is safe to OC on that board with a good quality PSU. But don't expect to get much of a performance bump from the old Intel® Core 2 Duo Processor (E6550 ?). The CPU doesn't have an unlocked multiplier, so all the OC'ing will be done with the base clock. You may get a few hundred MHz if you are good.

 

[iraklitelie]

Yes, my CPU is E6550 and many programs say that I have a x7 multipler... is that fake or... what??

 

[iraklitelie]

Also any tips on how I could do it?

 

[william p]

A good 2 core overclock is a tape mod from 1066fsb to 1333fsb on an E7500. If you bump the Voltage a little it should run. This will get 11x333=3.66GHz.
The classic budget OC was a Q6600 SLACR with a tape mod to 3GHz. 9x333=3Ghz. You can tweak a little more out of it from there.

 

[clutchc]

In case you're curious, the tape mod william p is referring to is this. But your E6550 is already a 1333 MHz fsb.

Personally, I would recommend finding a faster quad core instead of trying to OC that chip. Q9550s, for example, can be found fairly cheap on places like ebay. Your board supports all the popular 775 socket processors with the correct BIOS update (if needed).

 

[william p]

Clutch is right the Q9550/9650 is faster than the OC Q6600. If you can raise Voltage the Q6700 can go 3.33GHz with tape. But it probably just equals a Q9650 and runs hotter doing it.

 

[iraklitelie]

Ok thank you guys but it turns out my bios has an overclocking feature.

 

[clutchc]

Ok thank you guys but it turns out my bios has an overclocking feature.

Good luck with that