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joeswm8 said:
woah i just looked up overclocking

its just a bunch of changing the multiplier, FSB, and vcore very slowly and cautiously over weeks at a time to eventually achieve the desired result.

Is this all there is to it? And what does it mean to be "stable"?

So now do you recommend i get the E6600 and overclock or the E6300 and overclock if it is my first time on my new build?

Or should I not overclock at all, and test a small overclock on my computer now?

What does OCing do anyway?

Thanks
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Basically. For something to be "stable" means it won't mess up, even when it is under a heavy load.

Sure, why not? One of the single most important rules to overclocking is to ask questions and to not think you know everything, because you can destroy your processor.

Overclocking raises the speed of the processor. For instance, if you overclocked an E6600 to 2.93Ghz, it would run similarly to an X6800 at stock speeds.
 
Well, if it were me, i'd go with the E6300, which the only advantage you can't make up with OC'ing between the E6300 and the E6600 is the cache, which doesn't make that big of a difference.

all processors that are the same core, and same cache size, are all actually the same processor, but the company, in this case intel, has set differnet clock speeds for them in order to make different price ranges and in turn make more money.

anyway, this means that simply by changing the multiplier and FSB, you can make your CPU preform like one of the higher up cpus.

basically, what you're do is tell the processor to operate faster, and it will do it, but in turn it will put out a little more heat.

of course there is a few more things in there, but thats kinda the basics from what i understand.
 
X24 said:
anyway, this means that simply by changing the multiplier and FSB, you can make your CPU preform like one of the higher up cpus.
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Actually, the only Core 2 processor with upwards unlocked multipliers is the X6800, so that means raising the FSB to very high levels (ie, 500mhz). The main benefit of having the E6400 over the E6300 is that the E6400 has a higher multiplier, so you aren't so FSB limited.
 
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