- Jul 7, 2007
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So I 'upgraded' to an Intel Q8300 (2.5GHz) from my Intel core 2 duo E8400. It feels slow in everyday tasks compared to my old processor. Since they are single threaded apps I was wondering if there was a way to assign different apps to different cores or maybe if I could simply overclock the Q8300 to 3.0GHz so it has the same single threaded clock frequency as the E8400. Please take a look at the attached image for more info about the setup and please suggest me whether I would be able to overclock it and how.
I am using Arctic cooling freezer and atm it idles ~40C and load ~56C. The cpu lowers the speed on its own like the E8400 to 2000MHz(2GHz) so it would help to know whether it would automatically lower speed after overclocking when it's not being fully utilized to save energy. It would be awesome to have it working at 3GHz when needed and at 2GHz when not being fully utilized just like E8400
System Info:
Check out my Sale thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2151948
I am using Arctic cooling freezer and atm it idles ~40C and load ~56C. The cpu lowers the speed on its own like the E8400 to 2000MHz(2GHz) so it would help to know whether it would automatically lower speed after overclocking when it's not being fully utilized to save energy. It would be awesome to have it working at 3GHz when needed and at 2GHz when not being fully utilized just like E8400
System Info:
Check out my Sale thread: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2151948
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