Instant Overclock?

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postman_pat

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Hi,

I am looking at getting a new PC in the next few months and after reading around this forum it is clear that OC'ing is the way to go - especially if you get one of the new 45nm Core 2 Duos.

Alot of 'noobs' come on to this forum and ask, 'what will my CPU OC to?'. To which everyone replies, 'every CPU is different and there is no answer to that question.'

Is this true though? If someone is looking to do a reasonable OC but nothing too serious could they not just change the multiplier and voltages etc.... on their first go, do no stress testing and assume that everything is fine?

Take the E8400 for example - with the right system, that seems like a CPU which will happily do 3.8GHz with no problems. So couldn't I just buy a nice system, with air cooling, and crank it up to 3.8GHz straight away through my bios and then start gaming my heart out?

No doubt this is all wrong, please tell me why!

Thanks,

Mike
 
i would say an increase of 200mhz is pretty safe for all CPUs and will be stable. anything more than that, you would have to stress test for stability, especially for the AMDs
 
postman_pat said:
Hi,

I am looking at getting a new PC in the next few months and after reading around this forum it is clear that OC'ing is the way to go - especially if you get one of the new 45nm Core 2 Duos.

Alot of 'noobs' come on to this forum and ask, 'what will my CPU OC to?'. To which everyone replies, 'every CPU is different and there is no answer to that question.'

Is this true though? If someone is looking to do a reasonable OC but nothing too serious could they not just change the multiplier and voltages etc.... on their first go, do no stress testing and assume that everything is fine?

Take the E8400 for example - with the right system, that seems like a CPU which will happily do 3.8GHz with no problems. So couldn't I just buy a nice system, with air cooling, and crank it up to 3.8GHz straight away through my bios and then start gaming my heart out?

No doubt this is all wrong, please tell me why!

Thanks,

Mike
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you would have to loosen your ram timings, to allow them to overclock along with the processor, you might have to raise the voltage through the processor to reach that goal, but essentially yes the 8400 will happily to 3.8GHZ on pretty much any board that is compatible
 
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