i just brought my new system and thought i would try overclock it and see how far i can realy push it.it runs at 3.39 mhz wen its 4.40.i was runing 5 games plus editors,fm 2007,halo,nfs carbon,fifa 2007 and sims 2,i also had 32 ie pages open.was runing 2 system scans with mcafee and norton plus a defragment.i had big programs open like all the microsot works programs 7 adobe applications and was playing 2 dvds on wmp and bearshare,the cpu maxed out 3 times. to 100% but still never slowed down onces and neva heated over 45.any ideas how i can try and slow this baby down.it seems to good to be true.but is it?
ma cpu is 3.40 ghz 800 mhz 2x2mb cache 1 gb ram 80 gb hd.i want to overclock it so its goes more them 3.40 ghz and more up to 4.0 ghz but it just wont atall
i am confused, so you were running all those programs at once???. What do you mean slow it down? going to 100%? well you cant really, thats just because the apps were requiring 100% cpu usage, sometimes i get 100% from aol, opera, avg antivirus, adaware se and disk keeper running at the same time, sometimes spyware can make the cpu go to 100% and not come back down. Whats you full system specs?, place your system specs either in your signature, or in the my computer area located at the top of the forum on the blue bar. Maybe your cpu is a bad overclocker all Cpu's are not good at overclocking, either if the cpu is supposed to be a good overclocker, it doesen't mean that yours will be, its really luck, but if loads of people are reporting good overclocks with the cpu you have, then chances are you will be able to too, thats what i think anyway as my 3700+ was a cracking overclocker , you proberbly wont get to 4ghz, but depends what cpu it is, core 2 duo? then you have a chance i rekon. How do you overclock? through the bios? Is your computer one your build from parts, or did you buy it in a package and pre built? if so, then that maybe why you cant overclock, with most pre build pc's overclocking is locked i belive. Even if you did get it to 4ghz, were it maxes out at 100%, say running all those apps, it still will, the overclock will help mostly in gaming than normal apps like Microsoft Office & Internet browsing. Will T
ALL THOSE APPS :doh: you might as well hit it with a sledgehammer man hahaha (no dont do that thats computer abuse) haha willz is right if you bought the computer from a certain brand then the overclocking parts of the bios that you can change might be locked (to prevent users from damaging the parts and then causing problems for the brand) but you do overclock in the bios and i believe theres some good overclocking tips threads here in HF or out there in the net, search it here or google it just gonna say straight away, watch out what you do and dont push your computer too hard, my friends friend blew out his cpu tryin to get an extra 10mhz out of his cpu that was already overclocked as hell) and like willz said, unless you plan to do audio editting, deep multimedia stuff, or try to stack up more fps in high detail games, you wont really notice a change in the performance cheers :beer:
