AboutRider Expertise With 20 years experience I can answer almost any question about Intel computers ror build, restore, backup, configure, OS problems, Hardware issures. Setup of hardware components, repair, remove and replace. Trouble shooting hardware/driver issues.
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Question hi rider,
i recently brought an intel core 2 duo E4300 model (1.8Ghz).
what i wanted to ask is that can i overclock it to achieve more faster performance , if it is safe and hassle free.
What do you recommend??
can you post me a link or explain me the procedure on how to overclock also!!
Thanks
Neville.
Answer Overclocking a processor can cause an extream amount of heat and damage the motherboard and the processor.
If you are going to over clock a processor you need to insure that you increase the amount of cooling in the computer. Either by adding a intake (sucks air in) or exhast (pushes air out) fan or both. The draw back to adding fans is the increase in the noise level that the fans produce.
Before modifing the BIOS check the current motherboard and proceesor tempature. Write it down so there is no guess work on what the baseline is before increasing the multiplyer. I do not recomened changing the core voltage anytime!
I would say up the multiplyer by a factor of 5 steps, if it is at 100 move it to 105, then let it run for five minutes and check the tempature.
You need to check with the Intel site for the processor and see what the operating tempature for the cpu is, a E4500 is 65*C max tempature, yours will be close to that I would imagine. Try to keep the tempature under 60*C if it is 65*C for the max. If you over temp the processor it will shut down, once may not damage it but continiously over temping the processor and motherboard will damage them.
ASUS has a utility where you can 'Step' the processor multiplyer from the Windows OS and not go into the BIOS, it also has hardware monitoring, unfortuately my ASUS motherboard was dead on arrival and I had to send it in for repair, didn't even get it completly installed. So I can't say what the program does or looks like except what I read in the installation manual.
As for the process I don't know of any sites that walk you through the process because each motherboard BIOS publisher is different.
