core2duo 4300
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Any budget?
Scythe Mugen-2 ??
http://www.google.com/products?q=Scythe+Mugen-2&oe=&scoring=p&safe=on&lnk=pruser&price1=20&price2=
Scythe Mugen-2 ??
http://www.google.com/products?q=Scythe+Mugen-2&oe=&scoring=p&safe=on&lnk=pruser&price1=20&price2=
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linkin
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You could do a 200mhz increase on the stock cooler with no voltage increase either, I've had that very CPU And i got it to 3ghz, same with an E4500, but that one needed more voltage for some reason.
200mhz is a very mild overclock, and PU's have plenty of excess voltage at stock settings to allow for... well.. lower quality PSU's/Mobo's.
Speaking of which, the rest of your system specs would help a lot.
200mhz is a very mild overclock, and PU's have plenty of excess voltage at stock settings to allow for... well.. lower quality PSU's/Mobo's.
Speaking of which, the rest of your system specs would help a lot.
+1, need to know the rest of your system. Is it OEM or retail parts built? If it's an OEM pc I doubt it has any options for overclocking to begin with.
Also, make sure you have decent ram, as ram gets overclocked with the CPU unless you have a really good board and it can be unlinked.
You can indeed overclock some on the stock CPU cooler. Download ''Real Temp'' to monitor the CPU's core temperature. I'm betting you could get 2.2-2.4ghz out of it on the stock cooler and stock voltage.
Also, it would actually be a larger gain to buy a new CPU rather than a good cooler. Get an E3300 is a dual core wolfdale celeron, which is way better (even though it has the celeron badge) than your current CPU, it's only $52, and is 2.5ghz stock.
Mine clocked to 3.4ghz on stock voltage and cooler as well.
Awesome bang for the buck-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116264&cm_re=e3300-_-19-116-264-_-Product
Also, make sure you have decent ram, as ram gets overclocked with the CPU unless you have a really good board and it can be unlinked.
You can indeed overclock some on the stock CPU cooler. Download ''Real Temp'' to monitor the CPU's core temperature. I'm betting you could get 2.2-2.4ghz out of it on the stock cooler and stock voltage.
Also, it would actually be a larger gain to buy a new CPU rather than a good cooler. Get an E3300 is a dual core wolfdale celeron, which is way better (even though it has the celeron badge) than your current CPU, it's only $52, and is 2.5ghz stock.
Mine clocked to 3.4ghz on stock voltage and cooler as well.
Awesome bang for the buck-
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116264&cm_re=e3300-_-19-116-264-_-Product
Oh yeah man, no problem. Your stock FSB will be set to 200, just bump it right to 267 and keep everything else on auto. That will put your ram right at 1600 where it should be and give you 2.4ghz.
When I first booted my new I5 setup, my ram was defaulted to 1333 cas 9. After a couple days I started overclocking, now running 1800 cas 8 and NO difference was fealt whatsoever. This is because 1333 cas 9 isn't really bottlenecking anything, it's still fast.