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Good staff ...
I would like to overclock my CPU but not the faintest idea how to do, so I ask your help.
My hardware is:
P6T SE Motherboard
GeForce GTX 650 OC 1GB
CPU Intel i7-920 quad core 2.66 GHz SKT 1156
Team Elite Memory DDR3 3x2GB 1333MHz triple channel
Hard Drives Toshiba SSD Solid State Drive 128GB Q Series
Western Digital Blue 500GB 7200rpm 3GB / s
Western Digital Green 1.5TB 7200rpm 3GB / s
Sound Card Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Platinum
DVD-RW PLEXTOR PX-891SA
DVD-RW LG HL-DT-ST DVDRAM GH22LS50
The machine is usually connected 24x7, and I'm looking for a setup that fits what I intend, I hope that with your help can get to "she."
Overclocking can damage your hardware, especially if you don't know exactly what you are doing, but even very experienced overclockers sometimes burn their hardware. So if you can't afford to buy new hardware when something goes wrong don't even start with overclocking.
Having said that, LQ is not the best place to ask for help with overclocking, there are several forums out there specifically aimed at overclockers, you will get much better help there. Almost any overclockers forum also has threads for overclocking specific CPUs, you will find all the knowledge you need there.
Good staff ...
I would like to overclock my CPU but not the faintest idea how to do, so I ask your help.
The machine is usually connected 24x7, and I'm looking for a setup that fits what I intend, I hope that with your help can get to "she."
Dont. Just dont. Overclocking isnt going to make a huge difference. Its not that insane if you have a system you use for a few hours a day, but a 24/7 system, just leave it.
'Running at stock speed' is much faster than 'dead'.
Its not like you can just change one setting and get a sizable increase in performance with zero risks.
The way it actualy works now is that you'll need to change _lots_ of settings, benchmark, rinse and repeat many times to even get an idea of what is 'faster'. There are large risks, its fiddly, you cant escape the benchmarking _if_ you want to do it right. There can also be issues with cpu frequency e.g. not downclocking at idle, speed reporting problems, blah blah......
In short, its not something you want to do unless-
A- you dont mind blowing your system.
B- you dont mind spending many hours researching what/how/where/why.
C- you dont mind spending many hours changing settings, rebooting and benchmarking.
Does not it?! I did the research that I got the idea that I would be much faster and that is my intention?
How much you can overclock your CPU is not only dependent on your actual CPU (model and your luck to get one that overclocks good), but also by other components, like motherboard and cooling system. But even then, overclocking the CPU will not magically make your system much faster. it depends highly on the software you use and other components in your system. For example, if your bottleneck in the system for your specific use-case is slow RAM or a slow storage subsystem the overclocking the CPU will not do you any good.
In short: If you want significantly faster hardware you will have to buy it.
overclocking is pretty easy and acually doesn't have anyting to do with any Operating systems.
it all depends on what you want do you want stablility or highest Overclock, there are a few thing you must consider one is heat Overclocking can really heatup you system so depending on yor case air movement and cpu cooling be it water or air it all really matters the electricity.
I am still a beginner at OCing but have OC a fair amount on different systems now I just basicaly use a auto overclock system in my bios , then test for stability and if all is good ( heat stability) then I might slowly play around with the bios settings.
also can take a fair amount of time because after you oc you need to run tests for stability and heat .
I just noticed that you didn't post you PSU ( Powersupply unit) that can really effect everything on your system, you can have all good parts but if you have a not so good or even average PSU you can run into problems and posibily damage your system
Last edited by Shadowmeph; 02-05-2014 at 12:28 PM.
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