sb and increasing stock clock to oc a i3?

[onelivinlarge]

ok i know that technically they only way we are supposed to be able to oc a sb chip is one with turbo or K with the unlocked multiplier. but i was reading that some one had a stable over clock on the i3 2100 from 3.1ghz to 3.4ghz by increasing the fsb in small increments. is this even possably and is there any real gains (in game). if possable would it help me gaming with my i3 2120 and would it be worth it ? is it safe

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/266488-29-2100-overclocked

 

[Kenmitch]

Not sure if you'd gain much performance or if you'd even be able to stabalize the overclock. You'd have to try it and see. Depending on your GPU you may notice no gain at all.

I kinda see it as a way to squeeze that last little bit of Mhz out of a K chip 🙂

 

[richierich1212]

If you can only overclock, 300MHz isn't worth messing up your other components for an increase you won't likely notice.

 

[exar333]

If your cooling is OK, an extra 10% would be pretty decent if you use a lot of cpu-intesnsive applications.

 

[onelivinlarge]

skyrim in 1080 will be my biggest tax on the computer

 

[Maximilian]

skyrim in 1080 will be my biggest tax on the computer

Well considering bclock overclocking on the SB chips can apparently break them i wouldnt do it at all.

Skyrim only uses 2 threads and isnt particularly demanding. That i3 is one of the best CPUs to run it with at stock settings, it provides 2 threads at a good clock speed.

 

[onelivinlarge]

ok no over clock and just a good gpu it will be then

 

[sm625]

Why hasnt anyone "invented" a pciE bridge designed to run at whatever BCLCK overclock you set, then translate that back to 100MHz? Its not like its really hard to do. Then you just run your southbridge through that chip. It would add an extra $20 to the motherboard. And whoever did it would be the new enthusiast king. Are they seriously all stuffed that far up intel's butt that they wont do this?

 

[Puppies04]

I thought you could overclock the turbo multiplier on non "k" chips by 4 bins??

 

[onelivinlarge]

i3 = no turbo