Overclocking noob

[tigersty1e]

How much faster does your computer get from overclocking (percentage wise)? I'm talking conservative overclocking. (not setting any records)

I have a e6300 C2D with an Asrock 4coredual VSTA mobo. I heard my mobo is a budget board, so will I be able to overclock this sucker safely?

 

[Boyo]

I'm not familiar with that mobo at all so I have no idea how much you will OC with that thing. But I have heard of E6300 getting 3.2GHz.

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Yes overclocking especially with the E6300 makes a big difference. In general tasks the system will be much snapier and definately noticeable. In CPU intense tasks like encoding it will scale almost perfectly with clockspeed, ie... if you overclock it 50% it will be 50% faster.

Not sure about the overclockability of that board

 

[lxskllr]

Before you try overclocking make sure that mb supports locking of the pci and pcix busses. As you raise the fsb the pci bus will run faster also, and you can get data corruption. Pci needs to be set at 33mhz, and pcix needs to be set at 100mhz.

 

[myocardia]

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Not sure about the overclockability of that board

They do between 290 & 300 Mhz FSB.

 

[Cheezeit]

Originally posted by: myocardia

Originally posted by: GuitarDaddy
Not sure about the overclockability of that board

They do between 290 & 300 Mhz FSB.

Which means it's a poor board to overclock a 6300 on, because even if it ran its best 300mhz, 300 x the 7 multiplier = 2100mhz, a 300 mhz overclock.