It will surely require more power. The technical reason is that the higher the frequency the cpu is running at, the more current will run through the millions of transistors. This will also generate more heat... What PSU do you have and what components are on it? How about the 12V rails?
Sorry I was talking about overclocking my video card. I found a program called coolbits that is supposed to do everything for me. Again sorry for not being specific. (sounds like you know alot)
Sorry I was talking about overclocking my video card. I found a program called coolbits that is supposed to do everything for me. Again sorry for not being specific. (sounds like you know alot)combine107
Power issues still apply if not even more so over the CPU since the GPU already takes more PSU. It sounds like you do not know much about overclocking, well thats not a bad thing as now-a-days it is practically becoming a feature of GPU's and Motherboards.
I reccomend trying it out, the chance of you frying you hardware is minimal since there are precautions set to turn it all off if it gets too hot. Though THE RISK IS STILL THERE!!!! So this is what I reccomend when first starting out....
SMALL increments and lots and lots of testing to see where your peak is which is usually different for most due to different enviroments (both inside the PC and outside). To test either run your favorite game that actually puts a strain on the video card, or your favorite benchmark utility like 3dMark or Aquamark. Once you start seeing performance drop instead of increase OR artifacts which are graphical problems in the game such as textures being miscolor, misplaced, etc. Once you reach your peak drop it down a few in the clock speeds just to be on teh safe side.
Remember overclocking can yield some great results without having to pay for that more expensive card, but it will wear your hardware down faster than usual so I reccomend only overclocking if you NEED to really see a performance or graphical jump in your games.
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