Help on Overclocking

Hi I am about to upgrade my mobo and CPU tothese components:

Core 2 Duo E6420 2.13 GHz/4Mb Cache - 269$
Gigabyte GA-965P-DS3 Pro Rev.3.3 - 219$

And I was Wondering if anyone knows wether these components are easy to overclock, and also how do you perform overclocking?

Thanks.

How do you up the Voltage, and is the overclocking program easy to use? the mobo i have listed apparently comes with one, and how many fans on average do you think i will need?

well it depends what kind of cooling do you have (how many fans and size like 120mm or 80mm) you can overclock the oldschool way by editing the bios or you can use an overclock program to do it. It will be a litte tricky though when you get higher because you have to up the voltage. filmography

How do you up the Voltage, and is the overclocking program easy to use? the mobo i have listed apparently comes with one, and how many fans on average do you think i will need?

Corrupt_Tiki

Easy Tune 5 is only good for small overclocks. If you really want to get some huge performance boost, you're going to need to do it the BIOS way. Alot of things to set, particularly RAM timings, CPU voltages, FSBs and so on.

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How do you up the Voltage, and is the overclocking program easy to use? the mobo i have listed apparently comes with one, and how many fans on average do you think i will need?

SSJBen

Easy Tune 5 is only good for small overclocks. If you really want to get some huge performance boost, you're going to need to do it the BIOS way. Alot of things to set, particularly RAM timings, CPU voltages, FSBs and so on.

What's classified as a small overclock for an E6600 or a Q6600? (not including RAM timings)

Check this overclocking guide out for advice on what you need to do, and I would deffinatly do it through Bios

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17612922