Overclocking a CPU for the first time - can anyone spare some advice?

[SPFreely 49]

Hi guys, I wanted to get some advice, especially from the PC core *excuse the pun* of the community that don't just buy the best but tweak to get the very best out of their hardware.  I have an old PC running an Intel Core 2 Duo E6500 processor, which I thought was clocked at 3.00GHz, but was actually at 2.93GHz, and it may make no actual difference at all in performance but I wanted to actually get it up to 3.00GHz, so I wanted to get some advice?  Would it be worth the effort and how would I go about doing it?  (Funnily enough I have never dabbled in overclocking even though I seem to be switching out hardware all the time in my machines.)

[phil bottle 9,561]

11 minutes ago, SPFreely said:

Hi guys, I wanted to get some advice, especially from the PC core *excuse the pun* of the community that don't just buy the best but tweak to get the very best out of their hardware.  I have an old PC running an Intel Core 2 Duo E6500 processor, which I thought was clocked at 3.00GHz, but was actually at 2.93GHz, and it may make no actual difference at all in performance but I wanted to actually get it up to 3.00GHz, so I wanted to get some advice?  Would it be worth the effort and how would I go about doing it?  (Funnily enough I have never dabbled in overclocking even though I seem to be switching out hardware all the time in my machines.)

 

Here's a good guide for overclocking Core 2 CPUs.

 

http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/259899-29-core-overclocking-guide

 

There's a few variables involved. Personally I wouldn't bother for such a small overclock, but if the chip is a good 'un, I'd go for 3.5Ghz minimum. But here, the motherboard will have a say too on what you can do.

 

Hope that's of help.

 

 

[SPFreely 49]

Awesome!  Thanks Phil, I'll certainly give it some thought before going ahead and give the guide a good read of course.  Many thanks!