Overclocking

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 03-13-2007, 17:21

Ive been reading you can over clock your cpu and vid card. Should you do it? How hard is it to do? Will it signifigantly inhance game play in MTW2 mp or anyother games? What are the dangers? Would you reccomened it?

**drone** · 03-13-2007, 17:41

There are some good links in these threads:
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=77594
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=67094

The dangers, of course, are fried chips. Cooling is probably the most important factor, if your case isn't properly ventilated, your system will be unstable at best. Some CPUs/MoBos are friendlier to overclockers.

I'm not really sure it's worth it these days, but I haven't really been following the tech. I'm looking at getting a water-cooled system, but mostly for the reduced noise. As the system ages, I may overclock it to slow down it's inevitable trip to obsolesence.

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 03-13-2007, 18:10

The dangers, of course, are fried chips. Cooling is probably the most important factor, if your case isn't properly ventilated, your system will be unstable at best. Some CPUs/MoBos are friendlier to overclockers

Accorrding to the articles Ive read they say the E6600 combined with the motherboard Im getting can be overclocked to 3.75 with no extra cooling. Thats one of the advantages they say of the Core 2 is that it runs very cool.

**Judge** · 03-13-2007, 19:16

the only thing G is u need a very good motherboard to overclock for the core 2 duo E6600 or any of the E series in fact

**Gawain of Orkeny** · 03-13-2007, 19:38

the only thing G is u need a very good motherboard to overclock for the core 2 duo E6600 or any of the E series in fact

Well according to all i read the one Im getting is the best. It better be for 250 bucks.

**Ja'chyra** · 03-14-2007, 09:59

Nice subject G, I was just about to ask the same question.

I just got my new computer which has this mobo and an E6600 processor. Anyone got any advice on if this is able to be overclocked and by how much, what I should change etc?

**The Foolish Horseman** · 03-16-2007, 21:15

I have overclocked my Nvidia Geforce 6600GT to run at 1.5 Gb ( OMFG) and it has been like that for the past year. In short, yes overclocking works, and as long as you dont go uber crazy, its fine.

Some guy i know overclocked his card (same as mine) to 2.5 GB and totally burned his computer and set fire to half his house

Very Clever

**The Spartan (Returns)** · 03-16-2007, 21:30

my comp tends to crash on my 6200 frequently.
but now i have a 7600 i dunno if it will still crash..

**BlackAxe3001** · 03-16-2007, 22:43

Originally Posted by GBB

I have overclocked my Nvidia Geforce 6600GT to run at 1.5 Gb ( OMFG) and it has been like that for the past year. In short, yes overclocking works, and as long as you dont go uber crazy, its fine.

Some guy i know overclocked his card (same as mine) to 2.5 GB and totally burned his computer and set fire to half his house

Very Clever

This makes no sense what so ever at all. You sir are confused beyond all reason and should not be posting such false information to those looking for help.

**Husar** · 03-16-2007, 22:48

Originally Posted by GBB

I have overclocked my Nvidia Geforce 6600GT to run at 1.5 Gb ( OMFG) and it has been like that for the past year. In short, yes overclocking works, and as long as you dont go uber crazy, its fine.

Some guy i know overclocked his card (same as mine) to 2.5 GB and totally burned his computer and set fire to half his house

Very Clever

GB = Gigabyte = memory
GHz = GigaHertz = clock speed

Now even if you meant GigaHertz, a 6600GT is clocked at 500MHz = 0.5GHz usually. If you had overclocked it to 1.5GHz, it would be toast now.
You may be talking about overclocking the memory, because that alsohas a clock speed, but I don't think that overclocking the graphics memory will give any big speed increases.

We had a topic about that before and I think the general consensus was that overclocking graphicscards is not as fruitful as overclocking CPUs and usually not worth the dangers.

**BlackAxe3001** · 03-17-2007, 18:43

Don't forget that you need to overclock your memory... and that requires proper cooling.

http://www.vr-zone.com/?i=4808

Haha... probably not the best idea in the world for the average user.