Simple overclock?
August 4th, 2016
I’m running a q6600 @ 2.4 and a 8800GT also at stock. When playing games the GPU core bumps up to 606 over its normal 600 if it makes any difference.
8gb DDR2 ram @ 800mhz
res: 1600×900
Anyways, I don’t want to overclock my gpu, but I heard my cpu bottlenecks it. However I have never overclocked in my life, and don’t have money to replace any components, so I was wondering which settings would be best to remove the bottleneck, but stay clear of the danger zone.
Please help me out
Well, you are right that CPU is a bottleneck, especially for games. It is really easy to overclock it a little (this exact cpu should do 3Ghz without increasing the voltage), but first you should find a website, preferably in your native language and read a “how to onverclock intel quadcore”. Make sure that the instructions are for you cpu architecture, which is “core”.(intel core 2 quad Q6***,Q9***,Q8***). I mean really, you have to read something about it before doing anything, otherwise you risk damaging the components.
That CPU isn’t that bad of a bottleneck, it’s one of those things which is misrepresented. The only way that CPU will be a bad bottleneck is if you play your games at low resolutions like 800×600/1024×768.
Read the article below on CPU bottlenecking, it should point you in the right direction. http://alienbabeltech.com/main/?p=13454
Well, you are right that CPU is a bottleneck, especially for games. It is really easy to overclock it a little (this exact cpu should do 3Ghz without increasing the voltage), but first you should find a website, preferably in your native language and read a "how to onverclock intel quadcore". Make sure that the instructions are for you cpu architecture, which is "core".(intel core 2 quad Q6***,Q9***,Q8***). I mean really, you have to read something about it before doing anything, otherwise you risk damaging the components.
Yea, deff something you want to read up on before doing. Overclocking isnt something that should be messed around with, unless you know what you are doing. If not done right you could leave your hardware with an “Upset Failure” render or “Catastrophic Failure” render, and believe me you don’t want either of those.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overclocking
This helped me out when I first started overclocking computers, Ive burned a few computers but I have also successfully overclocked many computers as well.
Deal with the heat output first, Q6600’s are mini nuclear reactors. A aftermarket cooler is a must.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Q6600+overclock