Hello,
Having battled with doa parts this week I finally have my new PC up and running and I'm considering overclocking. It's not something I've done before but i have read up on it etc. I'm interested in hearing your oppinions about what I could hope to achieve and how successful OC'ing would be for me. I'm not looking to stress my system out, in fact I'm just looking at a low level of oc'ing to maybe bring my cpu to the 3ghz level?
Anyway, the following information should be of use:
Hardware:
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/150981 - Arctic Cooling Freezer Xtreme Socket 775, AM2, AM2+, 939 Processor Cooler
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/127410 - LiteOn 20x DVD±RW Dual Layer & Ram SATA Black Bare Drive - OEM
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148685 - Coolermaster HAF 932 Full Tower Case - High Air Flow Design - No PSU
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148491 - BFG 9800GT OC Edition 512MB Dual DVI HDTV Out Cuda and PhysX ready PCI-E Graphics Card
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148818 - Corsair 4GB (2x2GB) DDR3 1600MHz/PC3-12800 XMS3 DHX Memory Kit
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/142919 - XFX nForce 790i Socket 775 3 way SLI 1600FSB DDR3 onboard audio ATX Motherboard
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/134072 - Hiper 880W 85% Efficient PSU - Quad SLI Ready, 4x 12V Rails
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http://www.ebuyer.com/product/148900 - Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 2.66GHz Socket 775 1066MHz 8MB (2x4MB(4MB per core pair)) L2 Cache OEM Processor
2 Old samsung 1tb SATA drives
Case fans:
Front : 230x30mm Red LED fan x 1, 700 R.P.M, 19 dBA
Side: 230x30mm standard fan x 1, 700rpm, 19dBA
Top: 230x30mm standard fan x 1, 700 R.P.M, 19dBA
Rear: 140x25mm standard fan x 1, 1200 R.P.M, 17dBA
Temps:
Being on in a hot room for 12 hours, left to idle for 30 minutes: 33 33 32 35
After the 30 minutes of idle I loaded it at 80 - 100% cpu for 30 minutes: 47 48 49 48
If you need any further information then please let me know.
- Monk